Friday, March 29, 2024

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Congratulations to Ryan Gorman ’11, who was voted the 2010 Senior Speaker by nationally recognized coaches at the St. Mark’s Debate Invitational. As Senior Speaker, Ryan delivered a keynote address at the St. Mark’s Senior Speaker Breakfast last Sunday morning. The award was founded by David Baker, a former St. Mark’s debate coach 25 years ago, and Ryan is...
The second half of the debate season is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get. The Jesuit debate team, however, only found goods as they rode on the previous semester's success and continued it during the second semester. MBA Before the semester had even begun, on January 5th-7th, Jesuit Debate sent 2 teams to Montgomery Bell...
Picking up where they right left off from their dominating victories in October, Jesuit Debate continued its competitive streak in November, attending the Notre Dame High School Invitational in California and the Hockaday Invitational in Texas.  In the two weekends, Jesuit novice and varsity debaters competed in over 90 debates against top schools from California, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Tennessee,...
  (Left to right: Adam Wiechman ’15, Emmanuel Ruiz ’17, Bennett Harrison '15, and Joe Hall '16 at the Novice and Second Year National Championships) While many of us were beginning our vacations over Spring Break, the Jesuit College Prep debate team was busy competing in the annual Texas State Debate Tournament at Cypress Creek High School in Houston, Texas. The Texas State...
Turning the corner of the B hall, a shiny clear window perfectly portrays the polished awards and trophies, all lining up for the beholder to bear witness to. These trophies all belong to the debate team, and over the first semester, the Jesuit Debate Team traveled to various parts of the state and the country to compete against some of...
Historically, Jesuit culminates the competitive debate season with the TFA State tournament and the National Debate Coaches Association national championships. This year's topic discusses the extremely culturally relevant topic of Security Cooperation of NATO under emerging technologies. With historic finishes in both tournaments, Jesuit certainly had a productive season discussing NATO security cooperation. TFA State One of the most competitively significant moments...
The two debaters file into the classroom, laptops, and pens in hand. They sit down and open up their laptops to begin the online debate. For the next two hours these two will face down their two opponents, and debate about cybersecurity, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and foreign policy. Win or lose, the debaters will discover an immense...
  The debate team of seniors Ryan Gorman and Sullivan McCormick earned fifth place honors this past weekend at the Grapevine Invitational.  Almost eighty teams from eight states competed in the tournament including teams from Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Hampshire, California, Utah, and Nevada. Gorman and McCormick finished the preliminary rounds with a 4-1 record with wins over teams from The Law...

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