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Results
Debate Team Competes at National Tournament
UofL Debate Program Qualifies for Elimination Rounds at 2007 CEDA Nationals
Louisville, KY (March 26, 2007) — The University of Louisville National Debate Team returned yesterday from the University of Oklahoma, Norman where they travelled on Wednesday, March 21st to compete in the Cross Examination Debate Associate (CEDA) National Tournament which ended Sunday, March 25th. Two Louisville teams (Rosie Washington/Brian Huot and Aaron Price/Ebony Rose) qualified for the elimination rounds, each team winning 5 of 8 preliminary debates that took place on Thursday and Friday. The tournament started with 162 two-person teams from colleges around the country, with 64 teams competing in the elimination rounds on Saturday.
The team of Brian Huot and Rosie Washington advanced to the round of 32, where they were defeated by Kade Olsen and Kathryn Clark of Dartmouth College on a 3-0 decision. Dartmouth had an undefeated 8-0 record and was the 2nd seed out of the preliminaries. The team of Aaron Price and Ebony Rose tied for 33rd out of 162 teams and Huot/Washington tied for 17th place.
Rosie Washington was also named 16th best individual speaker, out of 322 total, while Aaron Price was named 42nd best individual speaker at an awards ceremony Saturday night at 7:30pm.
For more information about the tournament, please visit the CEDA website: http://www.cedadebate.org/nationals/
Miami of Ohio Debate Tournament
Louisville, KY (January 16, 2007) — On Friday, January 12, 2007, two teams from University of Louisville's Malcolm X Debate Society traveled to their first tournament of the semester at Miami of Ohio, which was held through Monday, January 15th. Rosie Washington and Ebony Rose finished at 2:6, and Rosie was the 2nd individual speaker out of 64 total speakers participating.
Brian Huot and Aaron Price came in 5:3 in the preliminaries and were seeded 10th after preliminaries. They lost a 2-1 decision to the 7th seed from Wayne State in the first round of octa-finals.
The two teams are traveling to the University of West Georgia for their next tournament from January 19-21, while the novice team of Lavon Clark and Marian Kennedy will travel to the Harriet Tubman debates in Baltimore, MD, where they will compete January 19-22.
University of Kentucky Henry Clay, Vanderbilt University Invitational and Wayne State University Intercollegiate Debate Tournaments
Louisville, KY (October 30, 2006) — October was a busy month for the University of Louisville Malcolm X Debate society. We traveled to Lexington, KY for the 36th annual Henry Clay Debate Tournament, where 125 teams from around the country competed from Friday, October 6th through Sunday, October 9th. Two teams from Louisville competed at U.K., including Aaron Price (senior) and Rosie Washington (sophomore), who finished 5-3, and Stacy Bradley (senior) and Tiffany McCollum (freshman), who finished 2-6. Aaron Price also placed 8th for Novice Speaker.
Three teams also traveled to Vanderbilt University's Annual Invitational, which took place from Friday, October 20th through Sunday, October 21st. In the Varsity division, Ebony Rose (sophomore) and Jason Walker (sophomore) finished 3-3; Brian Huot (sophomore) and Mary Mudd (senior) finished 1-5, with Mary Mudd coming in 8th place for Top Speaker; and Stacy Bradley and Tiffany McCollum also finished 1-5.
Finally, during the last weekend in October, three teams comprised of Brian Huot and Mary Mudd, Richard Funches (freshman) and Marian Kennedy (freshman), and Aaron Price and Rosie Washington traveled to Wayne State University's Motor City Classic Debate Tournament. Price and Washington finished 5-3, while the other teams both finished 1-7. Price and Washington also advanced to quarterfinals in their most successful debate of the season where they also placed 6th and 3rd for Top Speaker, respectively.
Overall this has been a busy month, but it has also been rewarding. We've challenged a lot of the conventions of the debate community, and we've learned how to better prepare ourselves for the types of confrontations that ensue whenever one is advocating major change to a stagnant system. For the month of November, we plan to come home with even better results from James Madison University, Wake Forest University and Appalachia State University. For more information about our travel schedule please email lapowe06@gwise.louisville.edu or call the Malcolm X Debate Society at 852-0967.
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