Howard County, Maryland December 19, 2006 Howard County’s new Debate Teams took the Baltimore/Washington Metropolitan region by storm last weekend, upsetting long standing debate teams to win numerous awards. On December 16, 2006, Towson University hosted one of the largest regional high school policy debate tournaments in recent history, with more than 250 teams from the Baltimore/Washington region competing.

For individual awards, in her second debate competition, Glenelg’s Elizabeth Ferris took 2nd Place Speaker out of 130 competitors in the Junior Varsity Division. Centennial’s Sid Patel took 6th Place Speaker in the JV Division. Centennial’s Edward Zhang was awarded 13th place speaker in Junior Varsity in his first time competing. Centennial’s Kevin Li and Yuris Kim received honorable mentions, as did Christina Lee from Glenelg. In team competition, Glenelg’s 2 person team of Elizabeth Ferris and Christina Lee finished 9th overall, out of 65, with Centennial’s teams of Yuris Kim/Scott Mu, Kevin Li/Sid Patel and Janet Shin/Shirley Qin each receiving honorable mentions.

“As anticipated, the Howard County students are rising to the occasion. The success at Towson University this past weekend was on the heels of two other successful debate tournaments this fall. The students are picking up debate quickly and I anticipate more successes in the final 2 tournaments of the year in February 2007,” says Ronald Bratt, Founder of the not-for-profit consulting firm, Capitol Debate.

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Capitol Debate is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting policy debate. Capitol Debate assists schools in setting up teams, recruiting students and coaches, fundraising and sustainability.