Debate Team Wins 3 awards at Cornell
24 November 2008 Debate Team Wins 3 awards at Cornell
The HWS Debate Team recently sent three teams (two students each) to the highly competitive Cornell Debate Tournament.
The team of John Monaghan 11 and Dan Maguire 11 defeated teams from Harvard, Skidmore and Stanford to qualify for the novice (i.e., first year debater) finals. They did this despite Monaghan becoming so ill that he could not compete in one of the debates, requiring Maguire to ironman (debate in both positions) for that round. In the final round, Monaghan and Maguire fell on a 2-1 decision to a team from Brown University in a debate regarding U.S.-Taiwan relations.
The team of David Hernandez 09 and Gerald Buzz Klinger 12 defeated teams from Skidmore, Syracuse, and two teams from Dartmouth on their way to qualifying for varsity quarter-finals. (Though Klinger is still a novice, the team was classified as varsity because Hernandez is varsity.) In the quarter-final round, Hernandez and Klinger dropped to a hybrid team from Providence College and West Point. Buzz also won an award forthird-place novice speaker.
Schools competing at Cornell were 42 teams from: Amherst, Brown, Boston University, Boston College, Dartmouth, Harvard, HWS, Providence, Northeastern, Syracuse, Skidmore, Smith, Stanford, Tufts, Vassar, West Point, and Williams. Representing HWS, were also Anna Darmiento 09 and Matt Jarvis 11.
The team competes again this fall at SUNY Binghamton, the final warm-up tournament before the World Championships over winter break in Cork, Ireland. HWS will be represented there by Hernandez09 and Daniel Thorson 09.