Congratulations to the debaters from John Hersey High School in Arlington Heights, who swept the top three places at the state finals in the Congressional Debate Division on March 21-22. Our report comes from Correspondent Live, the school’s student newspaper.
The school advanced six debaters to the final round of 16, making it the most represented school in the finals. Furthermore, the top three places in this event have never gone to debaters from the same school.
“Their speeches in the final were the finest example of intellectual discourse that I have ever witnessed,” assistant coach Angie Weiner was quoted as saying. Ms Weiner joined the coaching team this year and, with her background in speech, was assigned to improve the delivery and style of the speeches, the paper wrote.