Olivia Synek '19 and Isabelle Elder '19 at the State Championship

SA Debate team ranks among top 16 teams in California!

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Seniors Isabelle Elder and Olivia Synek finished their high school debate careers ranked as one of the top 16 policy debate teams in the state of California! Only one other SA Debate team in the history of our program has done as well. Isabelle and Olivia earned their statewide recognition after qualifying to and competing at the California High School Speech Association's State Championship Tournmament held at California State University, Long Beach May 3-5.

This success is the culmination of a lot of hard work this year, competing at policy debate tournaments over the course of the entire school year. This year's policy debate topic (which schools all across the country have been researching) was about substantially changing US immigration policy. Policy debaters are required to provide high quality evidence to support all of their arguments and have to learn to debate both sides of the resolution at every single tournament they attend. 

Our season ends with the State Championship and now SA Debate turns its focus to next year's national resolution about international arms sales. 
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