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2nd Annual Adam J. Rubinson Memorial Qualifier Largest WUDL Tournament Ever Chris and Judah (DuVal High School) are leading the resurgence of the DuVal Debate Team, which is back to entering teams in every division, and winning awards in most of them. They went undefeated in JV, their first time in the division. Between Christmas

DC International, Eliot Hine, Hardy, and Stuart Hobson To Represent WUDL @ MS Nats Ian, Zeve, Marshall, Fiona, Theo, Nate, Izzy, Claudia, Addie, Bobby, and Louise (not pictured: Jack) After many years of incredibly strong returning students dominating our Middle School Qualifying process, this year’s qualifying process was a wide open field, with only three

McCauley/Blanc (Banneker), Neuroth^2 (Walls) and Castellanos-Lima/Ramirez (Forest Park) Qualify to the Urban Debate National Championship William and James Neuroth, School Without Walls Parker McCauley and Henry Blanc, Banneker If you’ve been to any Washington Urban Debate League event over the last seven years, you’ve probably run into Parker McCauley. Not only has McCauley, a senior,

WUDL’s Jack and Margaret Win Pennsbury Falcon Invitational and Many Other Achievements BASIS DC’s Sitara speaks during the Octo-Final Round. With partner Daniella, they advanced to the ToC Qualifying round for the 3rd time in their career, their first without breaking through in a tough round against Northstar Academy (NJ). Sometimes, it’s nice to save

WUDL Gets 2 Teams to Bid Rounds, JV Finals @ Lex Winter Classic BASIS DC’s Sitara speaks during the Octo-Final Round. With partner Daniella, they advanced to the ToC Qualifying round for the 3rd time in their career, their first without breaking through in a tough round against Northstar Academy (NJ). The Lexington Winter Invitational

WUDL Moves 1/11 Qualifiers Online, Reschedules for Spring Bobby (left, Eliot Hine) and Jack (right, Hardy) qualified to Nationals last year with 8th grade partners. Now it’s their turn to lead and see if they can qualify with their new partners The weather outside was frightful, but still being able to have our qualifiers was

WUDL Winter Classic Provides Final Tune-Up Before National Qualifiers Cardozo’s Debate Team formed the first week of November, and went to their first tournament two weeks later, with both teams winning a round. This weekend, three weeks later, Roxana / Steven (above) and Elijah / Evelyn went 2-1. They now are preparing to compete to

BASIS DC’s Schmidt / Applegate earn a bid to the Tournament of Champions Jack and Margaret also won the most recent local tournament at John Francis Education Campus Debate is a powerful academic intervention, with more data than you can shake a stick at showing how impactful it can be on student grades, test scores,