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This weekend at the Shawnee Mission East/West Tournament Wildcat newcomers took home honors. In the Novice division, Tyler Gillespie and Peyton Peterson finished 6th out of over 90 teams with a 4-0 record. Honorable mention to Isabella Holwick and Andrew Powers for finishing in the top 20 with a 3-1 record! In the Champ division,
Over the past two weekends, DHS has experienced success at many levels of debate at multiple tournaments. Despite larger-than-usual entry sizes, the Wildcats have done great work in rising above the competition. At Lansing, Bethany Blackmore and Kennedy Farrier finished as the 6th best team in the Novice division with a 4-1 record. Nic Weaver
Congratulations to our teams who competed at their first virtual tournament “at” Wichita East this past weekend. Hunter Finnerty and Ryan Handley finished 5th place in the Varsity division. Nic Weaver and Lucy Mater finished in the top 15 teams in a massive Novice division in their first ever tournament. Up next… debate at Blue
The De Soto High School Forensics program recently competed in the Basehor-Linwood High School Invitational and the Olathe South Invitational. Below are their results and highlights from these two tournaments! Basehor-Linwood – February 29th The DHS team took 1st Place overall! Lily Thompson: 1st Place Prose, State Qualified Kaitlin Torres: 1st Place Impromptu, State Qualified
The Debate Program competed at the Tonganoxie Invitational on Saturday, December 14th. Here are their results: Congratulations to Kaitlyn Tait, Blake Hinson, Hunter Finerty, Ryan Handley, Natalie Nusz, and Brooke Cobos as they are all headed to 2-Speaker State in Hutchison on January 18th. Also congratulations to Ryan Handley and Hunter Finerty on their 6th
The De Soto Debate program competed in the Basehor-Linwood Invitational on Saturday, November 23rd. Congratulations to the program on finishing in 2nd place overall. Kaitlin Torres and Kaitlyn Tait also took 2nd as an individual team.
The Debate team competed at Olathe South High School on Friday, October 18th and Saturday, October 19th. Congratulations to Eva Brackney and Blake Hinson who placed 3rd in the open division. Congratulations to Jackson Truelson and Audrey Sweeney for their 6th place finish in the novice division.
To our supporters – thank you so much for taking the time to view our fundraiser page. Your support will help us excel in our passion of Debate! You will be getting a receipt for your gift. From the entire group, we can’t thank you enough for sowing a generous seed into our program. How are my
