On April 8th, 2014, six of the intramural debate team members took the stage to discuss and debate the very happening topic- should college athletes be paid? Jessie Rojas, Jordan Lopez and Matthew Kalap stood on the affirmative side and asserted that student athletes gave enough time and energy to raise billions of dollars for […]
On April 4-8 the UF Speech Team traveled to Arizona State University for the American Forensics Association National Individual Events Tournament. We arrived Thursday and spent Friday morning practicing events. We then trekked across the ASU campus for lunch and to find the buildings used for the competition. A surprise awaited us when we returned […]
The policy debate team traveled to Bloomington, Indiana for the 2014 Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) National tournament. In novice policy debate, One team made it to the Elite 8 (quarterfinals). Eran Del Castillo, Stephanie Cone, and Evan Cartagena received Summa Cum Laude National Debate Scholar Awards. Heather Marchini received a Cum Laude National Debate Scholar […]
The debate team traveled to George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia last weekend for JV Novice Nationals. In junior varsity policy debate, Simon and Vas got to the octafinals. Simon got 12th speaker.
On February 22 and 23 the speech team traveled to the FIFA State Tournament hosted by UCF. We had some great results and had a lot of fun. It was great to see all of the friends we have all made throughout the state of Florida before the end of the year. Results: Denise Go: […]
A few weeks ago, one of our IE coaches, Carrie, left Florida for the very cold state of Montana to start an new and exciting job there. We will miss her a lot but hope she is enjoying the cold and snow in the far north. Here are some pictures from her last meeting before […]
On February 22 and 23, the debate team competed at the D6 Southeast CEDA Regionals tournament at Emory University. We recieved several JV policy debate speaker awards. Graduate Assistant coaches Becca Steiner and Andy Montee both won the Matt Grindy Graduate Student of the Year Award. (This is an annual award where graduate assistant coaches […]
On February 15th and 16th, the UF speech team hosted a tournament in Gainesville. It was put together pretty last minute but, thanks to our wonderful coaches and everyone pitching in, it ran pretty smoothly. Results Day One: Denise Go: 2nd in Impromptu, 5th in Info, 3rd in CA Neil Decenteceo: 5th in Extemp, 6th […]
About six of us met up on Sunday evening and went to the Humane Society of Alachua County. We walked dogs for awhile and when we were done they allowed us to play with the dogs in play areas. Evan did a great job refilling the water bowls of all the thirsty dogs. Finally, we […]
This weekend the policy debaters traveled to the University of Georgia tournament. In novice, One team made it to octofinals. In JV Simon and Vas made it to quarterfinals and Simon got the 6th speaker award.