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Debate Team competes in WBFL debate state qualifier

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The Debate Team poses at their previous tournament at Cal Berkeley. Photographer: Kate Webster

On Saturday, March 7, the Debate Team competed at the Western Bay Forensics League (WBFL) State Qualifier at Narbonne High School in Harbor City, California. 

Noemi Holczer ’15, Sarah Wagner ’16, Anika Bhavnani ’17, Marine Yamada ’17, Isabel Adler ’17 and Ciel Torres ’17 debated in the Public Forum category. The girls debated the following issue: “In the United States, students should be guaranteed two years of free tuition to a community or technical college.”

Out of seven elimination rounds, Holczer and Wagner competed in three, Bhavnani and Yamada in five and Adler and Torres in six.

“I am so proud of all of the work the team did this year,” debate coach Kate Webster said. “They went farther in the elimination round than Archer has in a long time… they have had a really successful year overall.”

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Sydney Stone
Sydney Stone, Editor-in-Chief
Syd Stone graduated in 2016. She became the Voices Editor and the Social Media Manager during the 2013-2014 school year and continued in that position in 2014-2015.  She served as the Co-Editor-In-Chief of the Oracle with Sarah Wagner during her senior year. She played cello in the Upper School Orchestra, was a member of the Honor Education Council and was the senior chair of the Ambassador Leadership Team. She attended the journalism institute for high school seniors at Northwestern University, where she went on to pursue a journalism major in college.

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