Camdenton Speech and Debate

The team had a good weekend at Marshfield! We took more first time competitors who continue to learn a lot and that is always good! Even better when some of them end up bringing home some hardware! The following students deserve extra congratulations:

Grace Law/Ethan Cody 2nd place in varsity public forum
Ellijah Britz-Hults/Castor Burkhardt 2nd in novice public forum
Sam Eveloff 3rd in novice Lincoln Douglas
Charlotte Koons/Brystol Austin 4the in novice public forum
Grace Law 3rd in student congress debate
Addy Sousley 4th in student congress debate
Hunter Harris and Makhi Dauderman were both semifinalists in humorous interpretation

Proud of the whole group!

Had a good weekend at Willard and Hillcrest. Our team competed with 34 other schools, so this was a large and highly competitive tournament! Took some novices who hadn’t competed yet and they learned a lot. This is going to be a good year, I can just tell! Congratulations to our top finishers:
Grace Law and Ethan Cody-3rd place in Varsity Champ Public Forum Debate
Presley Short and Garrett Whittle-3rd place in novice Public Forum Debate
Presley Short-2nd place in Novice Student Congress
Caitlin Cataldo-who earned a NIETOC bid in Infomative Speaking

Took a few students to the GDA/MSU tournament this weekend. While this was the first tournament of the year for us, several of these kids competed for their very first time and the hard work they’ve been doing paid off!
Results:
Presley Short-1st place novice Student Congress
Alex Hendon-4th place novice Student Congress
Grace Law-3rd place varsity Student Congress
Castor Burkhardt-semi finalist informative speaking

Can’t wait to see what we accomplish this year!

Had a great day of learning today in Springfield. Getting excited for the upcoming Speech and Debate season!

We’ve had an exciting week here in Des Moines. Mason broke out of prelims in both events. Grace competed well and learned a lot. Levi debated 12 rounds and ended up in the top 13 in the Nation! To watch him receive his trophy on the national stage at noon today, tune in to the live stream.

https://live.speechanddebate.org/ Livestream Coverage 2025 | National Speech & Debate Association

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Eleven rounds of debate in and we are in the top 13! Let’s keep this momentum going!!

Day 1 of competition at

This weekend, we had three competitors in the Class 2 MSHSSA State Speech and Debate Tournament-Lincoln Douglas Debate, Prose, US Extemp, and Radio Speaking. They all did well. We are proud to announce that we have a MSHSSA Class 2 State Runner-up in United States Extemporaneous Speaking! Levi De Angelis placed 2nd in State! So proud of these kids!

These past few days, some of the kids on the team competed in the NDSA District National Qualifying Tournament at Gloria Deo Academy in Springfield. It was a challenging three days of competition and in the end we brought home 2 qualifiers: Grace Law in Big Questions Debate and Levi DeAngelis in Lincoln Douglas Debate. This will be Grace’s first year at Nationals and Levi’s 4th! Qualifying all 4 years of high school is a huge accomplishment!

There is still one more qualifying tournament in April.

We had a good first year in the new MSHSSA District. Four State Qualifiers!
Grace Law in Lincoln Douglas Debate
Ethan Cody in Radio Speaking
Levi DeAngelis in US
Extemporaneous Speaking
Grace Law in Prose

On to NSDA Districts this week to try qualifying for Nationals!

Took these six kids to Hickman High School for the CMAC Conference Tournament and they stepped up their game! We have two conference finalists and a champion! Congratulations to Ethan Cody, finalist in Radio Speaking and Mason Long, finalist in United States Extemporaneous Speaking. Levi DeAngelis is the CMAC Conference Champion in Lincoln Douglas Debate and United States Extemporaneous Speaking! So proud of their hard work. On to Springfield Catholic this weekend.