Harvard-Westlake Debate

congratulations to our HW Debate team on their first tournament of the year! swipe through for some moments from the tournament! ✨

Loyola + Loyola RR ‘25

is back in action! We're celebrating an incredible first semester of debate, and with bid season wrapping up, we'll be sharing highlights from our season! Scroll through to see some well-deserved recognition for Kaison, Lilly, August, William, and the rest of the team who crushed it this September!

7th graders getting ready for the tournament to begin

7th graders preparing to debate at the Sequoyah tournament

7th graders preparing to debate at the Sequoyah tournament.

Debaters endured a lot of rain this weekend at the Peninsula Invitational, including the Novice LD Top Speaker, Olivia Zhu '29! (center).

The 7th graders competing at our annual MLK middle school tournament.

Four HW Debate legends. Alex Mork '20, Indu Pandey '18, Samantha McLoughlin '21, Iris Chen '23. There are an unbelievable number of debate wins between these four.

Thank you for staying involved with the high school debate community!

Nate Verny, along with the the team of Nilufer Mistry-Sheasby, Liv Kriger, and Arielle Trakhtenberg are in the final round of the Blake School tournament. They are facing Cary Academy from North Carolina.

Lila is debating in the Quarterfinals of the Blake Tournament (Minneapolis). Making it to the top 8 earns Lila a bid to the Tournament of Champions.

📷Kaison

Novices with Coach Luke and Coach Kaison.