Jason Lam and Jack Trieu, three-year veterans of the Boston Debate League, show off their first place trophy in the Varsity division. Looking on is Alison Eggers, a BC law student who volunteers as an assistant in the tabulation room.
Tournament One: Boston Community Leadership Academy
The Boston Debate League kicked off its third season with a tournament at Brighton's Boston Community Leadership Academy on October 28th, 2006. Forty students from six schools, many of them brand new debate, lit up the school with their energy and enthusiasm, helping us to put on one of our best competitions ever. In the end, Josiah Quincy Upper School won the Varsity division, and top honors in the Junior Varsity division went to a hybrid team composed of one student from BCLA and one from Excel High School. The students had never met each other before, and only got paired together when their respective partners failed to show up on the morning of the tournament, but they made quite a team!
Jason
Lam and Jack Trieu, three-year veterans of the Boston
Debate League, show off their first place trophy in the Varsity division.
Looking on is Alison Eggers, a BC law student who volunteers as an assistant in
the tabulation room.
Stephen Alexander (Excel HS) and Joel Ortiz (BCLA) celebrate winning the Junior
Varsity division.
Excel High School's Michael Visoni and Stephen Sampson take
third place in the Junior Varsity division.
Eric Vick of Hyde Park's Engineering School scribbles notes
for his upcoming speech. This was The Engineering School's first tournament in
the Boston Debate League, and Eric represented them well by winning Best Speaker
in the Junior Varsity division.
Boston Debate League coaches gather for some networking and
professional development during Round 3. From left to right: Gabriela Fullon (BCLA),
Dan Ordorica (Academy of Public Service), Barry Collins (Excel HS), Locksley
Bryan (Academy of Public Service), Si Prakash (The Engineering School), and
Mandy Hahnel (Josiah Quincy Upper School). Tab room assistant Alison Eggers,
standing in the rear, looks on.
Samantha Waters, Harvard undergraduate and assistant debate
coach at Boston Community Leadership Academy, debriefs BCLA debaters Vivian
Mbawuike and Yesnia Santos at the end of their round.
Mary Thomas, head coach of the debate team at Charlestown HS,
judges the Josiah Quincy Upper School's Chris Gray and Zander Chan in a debate.
Alex Hoang, an alumnus of the Josiah Quincy Upper School
debate team, awards a third place trophy to Varsity debaters Jessica Lewis and
Natalee Frazer as League Coordinator Andrew Brokos looks on.
The entire Academy of Public Service debate team, including
coaches Locksley Bryan (squatting, front left) and Dan Ordorica (far right) and
headmaster Zac Robbins (far right of back row), gather for a group photo.
An assortment of Boston Debate League students, coaches,
judges, and administrators celebrate a great start to the 2006/07 debate season.