The U-High Debate team has displayed strong results at recent competitions and has earned individual and group recognition.
At the recent four debate tournaments since the start of the school year, the U-High Debate team has displayed strong results, earning individual and group recognition.
- At the Niles Township Invitational Sept. 9-10, seniors Sasha Duda and Siddharth Reddy made it to the quarterfinals and placed in the top eight teams.
- At the Greenhill tournament and round-robin Sept. 13-18, seniors Cyrus Esmailzadeh and Mahi Shah made it to the semifinals of the tournament and placed in the top four teams. Mahi was awarded the Linda Odo Award for first place speaker.
- At the Trevian Invitational Oct. 7-9, the team made it to the quarterfinals and placed in the top eight teams.
- At the University of Michigan tournament Oct. 27-29, the team made it to the quarterfinals.
Mahi, a captain of the team, is content with the team’s results.
“I’m happy with how we have been doing so far,” Mahi said. “Greenhill is one of the roughest tournaments in the year, so we were happy as semifinalists.”
At the next tournament on Nov. 18-20, Glenbrooks, the team is hoping to advance past the quarterfinals.
Mahi said, “For the team, I’m just hoping that other teams, if they want to, go for the bid and put in effort, work on files, get better at research and improve overall.”
