Hart High Speech and Debate

New season with a young team, but what potential!

Debate team 2023-24

Congratulations to Owen and Allen for taking awards at the Spring congress. Owen took 5th in varsity and Allen grabbed a plaque for best written legislation.

League champion in Programmed Oral Interpretation (Thematic Interpretation). Going to State for her second year in a row. Congratulations, Ridley!

Fall Open IE 2022 at Granada Hills Charter, Ridley picket fences for the top spot in POI! So glad to be back in person!

Kyla Jones, OO octofinalist in 2021 at Nationals

State Quals IE this weekend. Took 4 competitors and 3 broke to finals! Zoe Titus took 3rd to qualify for State Championship in Programmed Oral Interp. Angela Ramirez took 4th place to qualify in Impromptu, and Kyla Jones took 5th to qualify in Original Oratory! So proud of these awesome competitors!

National Qualifiers was such a great tournament! Took 3 speech competitors and 1 congress entry. Kyla Jones went to finals in Original Oratory, Arin Rothschild in Informative, and Zoe Titus in Programmed Oral Interp. Kyla is going to National Championship!

Hart Speech had an incredible showing on the first day of National Qualifiers. All three entries have made it to finals in their events! So proud of this remarkable team!

Nicole Felici, debate extraordinaire; Zoe Titus, congress fiend; Kyla Jones, oratory master; and Angela Ramirez, Spar guru! Going to miss these extraordinary young women after graduation.

It’s Qualifier time! Hart jumped into competition at the State Qualifying Congress tournament. 3 competitors and 2 broke to semifinals. Senior Zoe Titus grabbed 21st place for her showing in the semifinal round, and Chris Kim made it to finals and finished in 11th place. With 9 spots available to go to State, who knows what may happen in the shuffle to lock State spots!

My varsity speech kids finally strutted their stuff at the February 20, 2021 Open IE tournament. Senior Kyla Jones revived her hopes for another State tournament by placing 5th in Original Oratory, and senior Angela Ramirez took 7th place in Spontaneous Argumentation.