With 411 degrees, Myers Park is number 30 on the NFLs list of strongest programs. Congratulations to the team on this huge accomplishment.

The Desert Lights Las Vegas Nationals was a successful and exciting one for Myers Park Debate. To begin, we qualified more people to this Nationals, eleven, than any other before. In addition, we took home the prestigious Schwan School of Excellence in Debate Trophy, awarded to only eleven schools.

A special congratulations to Lucas Scholl who broke to finals in the Senate and the Public Forum Teams of Ramy El Kalioby & Lee Schuitema and Sean Ege & Everett Lozzi who broke to rounds 9 and 8 respectively. Congratulations to Roshan Sadanani, Sean Ege, Geoff Yost, and Mike Griggs who had success in their supplemental and consolation events.

Our Coaches, Andrew West and Jason Kline were both awarded with new diamonds this year. Mr. Kline earned his first and Mr. West earned his third. The picture below shows Mr. West accepting his third diamond plaque.

Myers Park was proud to cheer on other North Carolinians at the tournament. North Meck’s Dallas McKinney and Raina Enand were 11th place in Duo Interpretation. Meredith Potter & Caleb Frye of Pinecrest were the national champions in Public Forum. Arjun Chandran of Cary Academy was fourth place in Lincoln-Douglas.

Thanks to Mrs. K for writing and providing this video of the 2008 Spoof Duo from the Debanquet.

Those students who qualified to nationals will be catching their planes today for Las Vegas and a week of intense competition against others from around the country. We’ll probably post updates here on the homepage as they come. Wish them luck!