Congratulations to UNT JW (Zach Jones & Joseph Wofford) as their NDT/CEDA debate career came to a close at the 79th National Debate Tournament at Gonzaga. The pair picked up wins against Cornell, CSU Long Beach, and Towson. #GMG ๐ฆ ๐
Mahintha was 10th speaker
Joesph was 10th Speaker (MAC)
Rahul was 7th Speaker
Ari was 6th Speaker
Adrian was 3RD SPEAKER!!!
The freshmen were the only team to defeat Texas during the tournament.
Amazing weekend see you at the NDT! And we better get a 3rd this year!
Congratulations to seniors Zachary Jones and Joseph Wofford for qualifying to the 79th National Debate Tournament in Spokane, WA. This is the pairs second time qualifying to the tournament in NDT/CEDA debate. ๐๐ฆ #GMG
Congrats to UTD KS Mahintha and Adrian on getting to doubles of wake. KS finished 5-2 as were the 14th seed before losing to Emory.
Adrian was the 14th speaker.
Nice work KS!!!
@NorthTexan@UNTSpecColl Dr. Wiliam DeMougoet is remembered by the debate and speech team with an annual tournament and a scholarship in his name. https://t.co/Vv78WgT1zh
@NorthTexan@UNTSpecColl That's Michael Martin Murphy, Gale Alexander, Jebby Prindle, and Dr. William DeMougeot. Murphy is a famous musician https://t.co/6sG3zwVBez
WKU placed
1st in Open Sweepstakes
2nd in LD Sweepstakes
LD
Rae - Top 4 and 7th Speaker
Chase - Top 8 and 9th Speaker
Antonina - Top 32 and 3rd Speaker
Nik - Top 32
Kole - Top 32
Congrats to graduating senior Hannah who moves on the UK College of Medicine.
TOPS!
John Sims, Octofinalist in LD debate, 13th LD speaker
Aliyanarah Fortuna, Double-octofinalist in LD debate
Nadia Escatell, Octofinalist in Poetry
Taylor Doughery, 10th place LD Speaker
Also huge shout-out to our own graduate assistant Aaron Delgado for the photos!
Congrats to the UNT Speech and Debate team on another successful showing at the National Forensics Association National Championship. Members of the team took home several awardsโsee below
Incredibly successful tournament for our eagles! ๐๐ฆ #GMG
Zachary Jones, National Runner-up in LD debate and second speaker in LD debate
Alaia Snell, Semifinalist in Extemporaneous Speaking, Quarterfinalist in Persuasive Speaking
Joseph Wofford, Octofinalist in LD debate, 5th LD speaker
Congratulations to Zach and Joseph for their performance at the 78th National Debate Tournament. This was the first time North Texas has qualified in 8 years #GMG! ๐๐ฆ ๐๐
Huge shout out to both our anonymous donors and the list of donors found on our donor wall, we couldnโt do this without you! ๐ฆ ๐
To see the list of donors, follow this link and click the donor wall button: https://t.co/jquO3Lfm21
UNT Debate wants to extend a huge thank you to all of our donors! Because of your support we were able to reach our goal of 50 donors for the fundraising campaign commemorating UNT Debates winning of the NDT 75 years ago!
Congratulations to our debaters at the 6th NFA-LD Grand Prix! Debaters Joseph Wofford and John Sims broke to open elimination rounds with Joseph placing 2nd and John placing 4th. In addition John was ranked 3rd in NFA-LD All-American voting. Congrats on a great weekend! ๐๐ฆ #GMG
With that UNT debate has made it back home! On the last night UNT Debate attended a public debate hosted by Trinity College and learned the differences (and similarities) between debate in Ireland and the United states. Great trip! ๐๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ช #GMG
Ireland Update! Congratulations to Alaia Snell, 4th in Extemp out of 96 entries, and Gianfranco Laddaga, Quarterfinalist (top 8) out of 100 IPDA debaters. IFA Dublin is a wrap. In