Maryland Parliamentary Debate Society

Info sessions- 2/11 and 2/15 at 7pm!!! Message us for the zoom link!!! See you there!!

Big thank you to GW Parliamentary Debate Society for hosting this weekend!!!
Our teams were: Adam Harrington and his high school debate partner Peter , Caitlin Bourke and Dhruva Someshwar, Judah Levy and Nadia Lee.
Adam and Peter bubbled! Judah and Nadia as our ProAm team had a ton of fun!
Dhruva and Caitlin broke to semis!!!!! Caitlin was 9th Speaker and Dhruva was 10th Speaker!

Thank you to Nate Sears and Malcolm Ferguson for judging!

MPDS had a great in-house tournament last night! Thank you to all who came out! We are looking forward to doing more in the future.
Our debaters/judges included: Adam Harrington, Malcolm Ferguson, Dhruva Someshwar, Judah Levy, Rachel Robin, Jeffrey Yin, Ethanol Liu, Rebecca Mollet, Nate Sears, Caitlin Bourke, Rachel Pepper, Adya Joshi and Zara Memon!

Info Session tonight at 7!!
Here is the zoom link:

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Check out the events for our Info Sessions!!
Looking forward to meeting new members!
No tryouts, just a good time!

Https://UMD.zoom.us/j/8408982393

INFO SESSIONS: September 17th, 21st, and 24th from 7-9 pm!
Looking for new members of any year, any major, and any interest level!!!
See you on zoom!

Thank you Dhruva Someshwar for giving us some more reasons to join debate! We will be at the First Look Fair this week!! Looking forward to meeting new members!

Rachel Robin gives us some reasons to join debate!
Can’t wait to meet new members! Come check us out at the (virtual) First Look Fair on September 16th and 17th!

ZOOM SOCIAL tonight at 7!!! New and old members are welcome! We will have games and a chance to get to know the team! Come join us! Message us for the link!

MPDS was at Franklin & Marshall this weekend- an opp choice tournament! Congrats to Ethanol Liu (Ethan) for being 7th Varsity Speaker and to Judah Levy for being 3rd Novice Speaker! We had Ariane Sharifi/Judah, Ethan/Jeffrey Yin, Anna Newell/Eunisa Lu and Adam Harrington/Dhruva Someshwar debating!! Look at these cuties + Abe!

UMD had a great time at Swat this weekend!!! Our novices closed finals with Zara Memon and their hybrid Grace Luckett winning and Rachel Union coming in second! Rachel Pepper was 5th Novice Speaker and Rachel Robin was 8th Novice Speaker. Rachel Union ran all of their own cases!!!!!

Also... Caitlin Bourke won MOTY!!!!!!! We have no choice but to stan!
UMD was also honored to be tied for 2nd for the team you’d most want to be on other than your own! And on the board for most likely to survive being transported through time.

We also had Caitlin & Anna Newell and Ethanol Liu &Harsh*t from Hopkins debating. Thank you Jeffrey Yin for judging for us!