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MSU Debate Named Junior Varsity Fall Champions

MSU Debate won the junior varsity division at the American Debate Association (ADA) Fall Championship tournament hosted at Wake Forest University last weekend. Will Sterbenc (L) and Eleazar Asase holding their award. Photo by Carly Watson Eleazar Asase, a mechanical engineering junior in the Honors College, and Will Sterbenc, a James Madison College freshman, won the division after winning ten straight debates. Asase and Sterbenc defeated teams from the University of Michigan, Indiana...
MSU debaters pictured as a group outside of the doors to Beaumont Tower

MSU Debate Wins Big at Gonzaga Tournament

MSU Debate had five teams competing across two divisions at the Jesuit Debates hosted by Gonzaga University last weekend. Eleazar Asase, a mechanical engineering junior, and Will Sterbenc, a James Madison College freshman, won the Junior Varsity division after defeating teams from...
MSU Debate students in front of bronze Sparty statute PC: Sloane Barlow Photography

MSU Debate Sets High Bar at Back-to-Back Tournaments

MSU Debate competed at the Baird Debates Round Robin and Minnesota College Debate Invitational on back-to-back weekends. Arielle Gearring, a Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy senior, and Hina Shehzad, an International Relations junior, competed at the Baird Debates Round Robin hosted by...
MSU Debate Team students with bronze Sparty statue PC: Sloane Barlow Photography

MSU Debate Finishes Final Four at JW Patterson Debates

MSU Debate had an impressive showing at the JW Patterson Debates hosted by the University of Kentucky this past weekend with one team finishing in the Final Four. Joanna Gusis, a Statistics and Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy senior in the Honors...
Joanna Gusis (left) and Stephen Lewis (right pictured outside PC: Sloane Barlow Photography

MSU Debate Reaches Sweet Sixteen at Season Opener

MSU Debate reached the Sweet Sixteen at the Owen L. Coon Memorial Debate Tournament at Northwestern University this past weekend. Joanna Gusis, a Statistics and Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy senior in the Honors College, and Stephen Lewis, a Social Relations and...
Jack Caporal (left) and Quinn Zemel pictured in 2015 holding trophies

10 Years Later, MSU Debate Team Alums Reflect

It’s been ten years since Jack Caporal and Quinn Zemel won the University of Miami Tournament but their time on the team was just the beginning of the friendships and life lessons they found from MSU Debate. In 2015, Caporal and Zemel...
A group photo of MSU Debate at the National Debate Tournament

Two MSU Debate Teams Reach Elimination Rounds at the National Debate Tournament

Three teams from MSU Debate attended the National Debate Tournament (NDT) hosted this year by Gonzaga University and two teams qualified for elimination rounds. Tony Miklovis, an International Relations and Social Relations and Policy senior, and Blaine Montford, a Political Theory and...
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