Deal Speech and Debate
The Deal speech and debate team attended their first full-team Washington Arlington Speech and Debate League tournament of the year with outstanding results. The tournament consisted of 42 middle and high schools and over 400 students from across the DMV. Award winners and honorees from Deal included:
Middle School Public Forum Debate Division
1st Place: Caswell Lockwood and Elia Mehrdad (Undefeated)
3rd Place: Baz Batros and Ben Hyde-Parish (Undefeated)
5th Place: Izzy Statin and Ronan Sharma Manning (Undefeated)
All three teams earned the right to attend the Metro-final MS Championships in March!
Also of note, the following teams completed the tournament with a winning record of 3-1, and just outside the awards were:
Alma DiRuggiero and JoJo Whitelaw
Clara Lieber and Linnea Chabot
Ana Huggins and Fora Emmet Steward
Middle School Top Speakers:
1st Place: Caswell Lockwood
6th Place: Elia Mehrdad
9th Place: Alma DiRuggiero
Lincoln-Douglas Debate Middle School Division
1st Place: Jane Milton
2nd Place: Lillian McNamara
3rd Place: Oscar Ullery
Lincoln-Douglas High School Division
Novice Division
6th place Jane Milton
Junior Varsity Division
Nora Cinque—3-1 and earned the first of two bids for the Metro-final championships in March
Varsity Division
7th place Evelyn O’Flaherty-Horr: 3-1 and earned the first of two bids for the Metro-final national qualifying championships in March.
Final note: The top 4 debaters in the Varsity division were all former Deal debaters now attending either School Without Walls or Jackson-Reed! Go Vikings. The tradition continues!
Special thanks to Coaches Stroud and Hubbard!
