It's Official!Law Magnet Hosting UIL Tournament

The JBS Law Magnet will be hosting its first UIL Academic and Speech/Debate tournament on February 23rd. The tournament will be called Law & Order.

UIL Regional Info

We will be leaving Townview Friday, April 15 at 10AM.  DO NOT report to any of your classes. Instead report to debate room with luggage. We will check into hotel before LD rounds start. Dress comfortably for the drive and pack for one day. I will email weather report next week.

Handbook - Schedules & Campus Map

Hotel Information

UIL Spring Meet Results

UIL Spring Meet Results for the JBS Law Magnet in alphabetical order of the event.  1st-3rd Place winners received a medal and advance to compete in Regionals at Baylor University.  4th-5th Place alternates also get to travel to Waco as possible substitutes.

Computer Applications - 4th Place, Margarita Sanchez

Current Issues & Events - 8th Place, Reuben Howard

Headline Writing - 1st Place, Rolando Velasquez

Informative Speaking - 6th Place, Reuben Howard

Lincoln Douglas Debate - 2nd Place, Katia Ramirez

Poetry Interpretation - 1st Place, Lucero Pina
                                   4th Place, Quetzabel Benavides

Prose Interpretation - 3rd Place, Kelsey Annu-Essuman
                                  5th Place, Glyneisha Johnson

Ready Writing - 1st Place, Rolando Velasquez

UIL SPRING MEET INFO

RICHARDSON HIGH SCHOOL MAP

SCHEDULE

BUILDING MAP

The schedule has not been released online.  Participants need to see Mr. Gonzalez for specific time of events or view the list of events in the UIL Prep Dropbox folder.

3 Top 20 Finishes @ TFA State

The JBS Law Magnet debate team had its most successful showing at TFA State with three Top 20 performances.  Ivan Garcia and Rolando Velasquz finished in 17th place in CX Debate.  Ivan Garcia (who has struggled with his speaker points all year) finished as the 19th Best Speaker in CX.  Kelsey was the 20th Best Speaker  in LD.  Since TFA State is so large, they recognize the top 20 Speakers.

In a year, in which JBS was supposed to rebuilding, it got is first CX team to break at TFA state.  Scott Deatherage used to say that "when won of us wins, we all win," that debate is more of a team effort than just the people debating in the room.  That was obvious this weekend as Charlie Stephens and Zavier Wingham came up to help be part of the research/strategy team, instead of enjoying their first weekend of Spring Break. Below is  a great picture of one of our "war room" sessions before leaving for the tournament.

Now we get ready for UIL Spring Meet and then the NDCA Championships in Scranton, PA.

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.

Overview of Events