National School of Excellence in Debate

2014 Award of Excellence

The team was awarded the National Award of Excellence in Debate by the National Speech and Debate Association (formerly, National Forensic League) at the national tournament in Kansas City.

2014 National Tournament Information

National Speech and Debate Association (formerly NFL) Nationals
June 14-21
Overland Park, Kansas

Times
We will meet in the parking lot where the bus usually picks us up for tournaments.
Depart from Edina at 11AM on Saturday, June 14
Return on Saturday, June 21 - we will leave Kansas super early on Saturday morning

June 15 is final registration + scrimmage vs another school(s)
June 16 begins competition
June 19/20 are final rounds + awards

Competing
Bree and Samantha (Policy)
Anja Beth and Shanelle (Policy)
Mabel (HI)
Dylan-LSHS (IX)
Margaret-LSHS (DX)

Coaches
Adriane Brown
Elizabeth Werness
Andy Charrier

Judges
Liz Stiras
Amanda Soczynski

Hotel
Residence Inn Kansas City Overland Park
12010 Blue Valley Pkwy.
Overland Park, Kansas 66213
Phone: 1-913-491-4444
Fax: 1-913-345-0644

Schedule - embedded below

Summary of Info Meeting

If you missed the informational meeting, you can still join the debate team.  We've included some links below that outline what was covered at the meeting.

Quick links to materials:

• Slides from informational meeting presentation
• 2014-15 season calendar
• Essential information

And then there a three dates to keep in mind as you are planning on joining the team: 

Aug 4 is the first date that registration with the Activities Office will be open. 

Aug 25 is the first practice. 

Sept 8 is annual all-team parent and student meeting.

David Bloom Scholarship - Seniors Take Note

David Bloom was a leading speech and debate competitor at Edina West who died while covering the Iraq war for NBC in 2003.  His family has created the David Bloom Scholarship through the Local Scholarship Program.  This particular scholarship is for senior students who are passionate about and active in either speech or debate during their time at Edina High School.

(I competed against David when I was in high school and he was everything a coach would want - smart, relentlessly hard working, fluent, persuasive, and concise; David worked with me as a student at debate camp and I learned a lot from my practice sessions with him.)

Here is the jump off link to apply - http://edinaschools.org/Page/1892

2014-15 Tournament Calendar

Edina Debate 2014-15 Calendar

* tournaments for novice (new) debaters

Practice
The team practices 6-8PM Mondays and Thursdays in these rooms:
324 Andy (experienced LD 4-6PM, novice LD 6-8PM)
317 Brett and Bobby and Chris (high-varsity policy group)

318 Risha and Clay (2nd year policy group)

319 Samantha + others  (novice policy group)

320 Megan (public forum)

321 Tim G (extemp + PF kids 6-8PM)
Experienced LD group has a different practice time slot (4-6PM) until the 2nd week of October. 

September 2014
1 NO practice - Labor Day

8 All-Team Parent + Debater meeting 6:30 in EHS Community Room 
16 Chipotle fundraiser 

20-22 Greenhill (Dallas, TX) | Varsity CX

20 * Scrimmage @ Eagan | Novice LD, PF, CX 

27-29 Valley (Des Moines, IA) | Varsity CX

27 * MDTA Jamboree @ Rosemount | LD, PF, CX

October 

4 * Anoka | LD, PF

3-4 * Washington Tech | CX
9 practice at Valley View

11 * Blaine | LD, PF

10-11 * U of MN + Rosemount Round Robin | CX

17-18 * Park Hill (Kansas City, MO) | Varsity LD, PF, CX, and Speech

24-26 Washington (Cedar Rapids, IA) | CX

November

Oct 31 - Nov 1 * Roseville | CX
1  * Andover | LD, PF

7-8 * Washington/Roosevelt (Sioux Falls, SD) | LD, PF, Speech

7-8 * Apple Valley | LD
7-8 * Concordia (Moorhead, MN) | CX
8 * Champlin Park | Novice LD, PF

14-15 * Highland Park | CX
20 practice at Valley View - VV Rm 230, VV Rm 232, VV Rm 234, VV Rm 236, VV Rm 246

22 * Robinsdale Cooper and Armstrong | LD, PF
22 * U of MN | CX

22-24 Glenbrooks (Chicago) | CX, PF, Speech

December

5-6 * MDTA Novice-JV State @ Eagan | CX, PF, LD

12-13 Dowling | CX, Speech
13 January Topic Workshop @ Edina | PF, LD
19-20 Blake School @ Minneapolis Hyatt | CX, PF
20 U of MN | LD

January 2015

9-10 Sections | CX, LD, PF

16-17 State | CX, LD, PF

23-24 NFLs | CX, LD, PF

February 

13-16 UC-Berkeley (San Francisco, CA) | CX, LD, PF, Speech

April
TBD Debate and Speech Banquet

May

Tournament of Champions - Lexington, KY

CFL Nationals - Fort Lauderdale

June 

NFL Nationals - Birmingham

Two Teams Qualify to Nationals

Instant news: 

Edina qualifies two teams to nationals this June in Kansas City.  Both Edina HP - Samantha and Bree - and Edina SR - Anja Beth and Shanelle - lasted out the day in the double-elimination tournament.

More news later, we are all exhausted. 

Arvind is State Runner-up