Tuesday, November 18, 2014

EGHS Debate Team Has Strong 1st Showing

The East Greenwich Debate Team had a fantastic day on 11/15 at the first debate tournament of the year held at Cumberland High School.  East Greenwich brought an astounding 36 debaters to the tournament to fill ranks in both the Novice and Varsity divisions. All students commented on the fun of debating other schools in a competitive environment. “I’m very proud of the team we have fielded this year, “ said Mr.Penza. “To go from 10 students to 36 in a year is amazing and the results speak for themselves.” The RIFL Novice Division is defines as comprising of first time debaters. The top 30% of teams and the top 30% of speakers are awarded after three rounds of debating.

East Greenwich Teams were awarded the following:
Novice Teams (out of 66 teams)
1st Ben Markstone & John Hare
11th Angela He & Christian Liu
15th Dan O’Hara & Zach Lepre
18th Elise Warren & Abby Allaire
19th Grace Webb & Jared Maymon
20th Stephan Toljan & Sam Wronski

Novice Individuals (out of 132)
2nd John Hare
3rd Ben Markstone
13th Dan O’Hara
14th Elise Warren
15th Connor VanWinter
16th Angela He
19th Sam Wronski
21st Grace Fitch
38th Grace Webb
40th Christian Liu

Varsity Debate is defined as debater with at least on year of experience. Obviously, placing in this round is much harder. Sometimes teams with only a year experience will debate against seasoned veterans of four years.  Although none of the Varsity teams were recognized, Mr. Penza is very proud of the effort put forth by them and is confident that they will be in contention in the next tournament.

Places of Varsity Teams ( out of 66)
25th Zack Johnson and Yash Dhuri
48th Katie Hollingsworth and Jeremy Bernard – Sasges
55th Molly Bisset & Katie Allen
58th Michaela Natal and Milan Toljan
60th Alec Gannon & Dylan DePriest

The team would also like to thank all the parents who came and judged the debate. The RIFL always needs parent volunteers to act as judges (judges do not judge their own home school) and we had 10 individuals judge at the tournament. Thank you to Mr. Ray Penza, Mrs. Skelton, Dr. Johnson, Mr. Hollingsworth, Mr. Allaire, Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Bisset, and Mrs. Natal.

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