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Full Results: WUDL District Tournament 2024 Center City Trinidad has some of the best shirts of our Spring Team Shirt program, and Jaida brought home a lot of swag to go with it! We wrapped up the WUDL regular season at the District Finals Tournament. Even this late in the season, we still had a […]

WUDL 2022 End of Year Awards: Coaches and Volunteers New Coach of the Year Rafia Rifa, Thurgood Marshall Academy Coach of the Year Forest Gertin, Forest Park High School Washington Urban Debate wrapped up season 2023 – 2024 on a high note with our End of Year awards. These awards are given to students, coaches,

WUDL Celebrates End Of Year Team Awards BASIS DC, the 2024 Sweepstakes Winners (missing a few folks) Washington Urban Debate wrapped up season 2023 – 2024 on a high note with our End of Year awards. These awards are given out to students, coaches, schools, and volunteers that have demonstrated consistent excellence across the entire

WUDL Celebrates End Of Year Student Awards Keoni Scott-Reid High School Debater of the Year, Parker McCauley, with Coach Mac Washington Urban Debate wrapped up the 2023 – 2024 regular season on a high note with our End of Year awards. These awards are given out to students, coaches, schools, and volunteers that have demonstrated

WUDL Chooses Final Middle School National Qualifiers: Hardy and Eliot Hine The entire WUDL Travel Team at the Pennsbury Falcon Invitational 2024 — definitely our best yet! WUDL gets to send 6 teams to Middle School Nationals. Four are chosen via competition (noted in this previous post), and two via application, chosen by WUDL staff

Full Results: Adam J. Rubinson Memorial Tournament One of the final Varsity Rounds that decided who will represent the WUDL at the Urban Debate National Championship. Judge Currie listens to School Without Walls’ Dinkins speak, the eventual winners of the round. The Adam J. Rubinson Memorial Tournament was a great success, and we’ve already shared

Stuart Hobson Qualifies Four Teams To UDL Middle School Nationals at Adam J. Rubinson Memorial Tournament The entire WUDL Travel Team at the Pennsbury Falcon Invitational 2024 — definitely our best yet! **We’ll have separate posts to celebrate the excellent work of folks at the Adam J. Rubinson Invitational at Deloitte and the Adam J

Inaugural Adam J. Rubinson Memorial Award of Excellence: Akesh Mallia We’re excited to name Akesh Mallia the inaugural Adam J. Rubinson Memorial Award of Excellence — pictured here at I-Resolve DC at the CATO Institute last fall. Akesh will return to Nationals this year to represent the WUDL in Chicago. We are excited to celebrate

WUDL Names High School National Qualifiers at Adam J. Rubinson Invitational National Qualifiers to the Urban Debate National Championship from School Without Walls — William, Zahra, Akesh, and Jener, with teammate Marie-Celeste in the middle **We’ll have separate posts to celebrate the excellent work of folks at the Adam J. Rubinson Invitational at Deloitte and

WUDL is Tournament of Champions Bound And Lots Of Other Awards At Pennsbury Falcon Invitational The entire WUDL Travel Team at the Pennsbury Falcon Invitational 2024 — definitely our best yet! At the beginning of the school year, BASIS DC’s Mazumdar / Choi had a good weekend at the Georgetown Day School Invitational, getting a