Rolando Velasquez Finishes in Top 10

Rolando Velasquez finished as 10th Place Best Speaker this weekend.  That is a great accomplishment at a TOC tournament.  Most TOC tournaments recognized the Top 20 speakers in each event.

Katia Takes on Entire Grapevine NLD Squad

Katia Ramirez dominated the NLD field throughout the preliminary rounds, defeating four Grapevine debaters in route to a 5-0 record. Katia defeated another Grapevine debater in the Quarter Finals, setting up yet another debate against Grapevine. Having had five previous opportunities to hear her arguments, the Grapevine debater prevailed and Katia finished in 3rd Place. According to Mr. Gonzalez, he could not recall a single time in which a debater or team was required to debate one squad so many times and questioned the tab room's management of the tournament.  On a bright note, Katia finished the season with three TFA points, the most ever accumulated by a freshman JBS LD debater.

The varsity debaters were in the hunt for a TOC bid.  Ivan Garcia and Rolando Velasquez finished in 9th Place and missed the bid round by .5 speaker points. Rodolfo Velasquez and David Webb once again finished with a winning 3-2 record, but it was not enough to break.

The JBS Law Magnet Debate Team closed out the TFA regular debate season at the Colleyville TOC Winter Classic. Garcia-Velasquez and Kelsey Annu-Essuman will be competing at TFA state March 10-12.

Colleyville Heritage High School

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Please remember there will be no per diem on this trip so bring money for dinner and lunch the next day.  I  have covered breakfast at the hotel.

This IS a TOC tournament.  Bids at Semis for CX and Finals for LD. Let's roll!

Novices Land Treasure at DeSoto

The novice CX team of Haley Estrada and Tyffany Robles volunteered to debate varsity at DeSoto to help build the numbers to help one of the VCX get qualified to state.  They did more than show up; they broke to Quarters, earned the 5th Place spot and earned their first two TFA points!

Ana Giron also broke to Quarters in Novice LD.

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UIL SPRING MEET INFO

Our Spring Meet is March 26th at Richardson High School.  Please help me recruit other appropriate non-debate Law & CJ students.  You can share this link.

We currently have old study packets.  You can ask Rolando where they are.  The new packets have been ordered and should arrive in a week.

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It's Official: Kelsey Annu-Essuman Is Going to Scranton

After a day of being iced out of two tournaments, we needed some good news. We received confirmation from the National Debate Coaches Association that Kelsey Annu-Essuman has qualified for the Championships. The tournament will take place in mid April in Scranton, PA.

Congrats to Kelsey and the entire squad, for when one of us wins, we all win. This is the third year in a row we qualify someone to the NDCA Champs. This is Kelsey's second time qualifying.