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WUDL End of Year Tournament Full of Growth, Excellence It was a full house as we awaited the awards ceremony at Capital City PCS in their beautiful theater At the end of the year, we host a District tournament where we give away awards to celebrate year long excellence. That will be covered in our […]

WUDL Celebrates 2023 National Qualifiers Mallia, Balk, Villaflor, and Birnstad qualified to represent WUDL at the UDNC in 2023. All went to Capital City together in Middle School and have been members of the Travel Team for 3+ years WUDL is an education first organization. The research behind Urban Debate shows that participation, not wins

Phelps High School Hosts Debate Tournament Originally Scheduled March 2020 Phelps High School has a huge central atrium with lots of natural light through the middle of the school. We filled it with debaters “The most energy and joy I’ve experienced in a good bit” — WUDL volunteer judge from this weekend’s tournament Coach Komlo

Banneker Novices Tie WUDL Record with Semi-Final Finish at Pennsbury Falcon Invitational Students from Banneker, BASIS DC, Capital City, Cardozo, CMIT North, DuVal, Flowers, Hardy, Phelps, and Stuart Hobson attended the 2023 Pennsbury Falcon Invitational It was 13 degrees after the wind chill on Friday, but thankfully, we were able to gather Capital City’s warm

WUDL Winter Classic Kicks Off National Qualifiers WUDL Alumni Paris Smalley (rear) hands out trophies during the awards cerremony This might sound familiar from our last post:  A week after our second road trip in 32 months, we hosted the WUDL Winter Classic, the first regular season tournament of 2023 and kicked off our National

WUDL Travel Team Brings Home Trophies from Lexington Winter Invitational Students from Banneker, BASIS DC, Capital City, Creative Minds, EL Haynes, Hardy, Oyster Adams, Phelps, and School Without Walls plus WUDL alumni and coaches at the 2023 Lexington Winter Invitational Students gathered outside of BASIS DC around lunchtime on Friday, Jan 13th, and eventually got

WUDL Holiday Tournament largest in 4 years! Kettering Middle School Debate makes their debut for the first time since before the pandemic with Coach Herron (right). The team took home a number of awards in a great debut. A week after our first road trip in 32 months, we hosted the WUDL Holiday Classic, the

WUDL Travel Team Hits The Road For The First Time in 32 Months Marie-Celeste and Charlie (School Without Walls) debate against Newark Science, just one of the many freshman and sophomores who are the core of WUDL’s Travel team this year. This past weekend, groggy students gathered at 6:30 AM at the Wendy’s in Petworth,

WUDL Hosts First In-Person TOC Qualifier. Ever. Eastern High School has one of the largest cafeterias in the entire city school system. It was FULL of debaters from around the region getting ready for rounds and enjoying some great food. This past weekend, the Washington Urban Debate League did a bunch of things it had

Center City Trinidad and DC International Dominate Thanksgiving Throwdown EL Haynes Coach Peterson judges a debate in the Eastern High School Media Center between Creative Minds and Stuart Hobson This past weekend, the Washington Urban Debate League did a bunch of things it had never done before:  Host an in-person qualifier for the Tournament of