Our debate team competed in the Salem Hills Speech and Debate Tournament November 19 and 20. They debators took part in SPAR, Oratory Debate, and in the speech competitions: Improvmptu, National Extem, Dramatic Interpretation and Humorous Interpretation.
"It was my very first debate tournament. I liked preparing for it and got used to debating. I thik we did well for our first tournament," said Ivan Gallegos, a member of the debate team.
Congratulations to the following students: Ramiro Salazar who took 2nd in Extemporaneous, Ben Jones who took 4th place in Oratory, Celestial Angell who took 6th in Impromptu and Melissa Torres who took 4th in Dramatic Interpretation.
"My Debate team is amazing. All my debators this year are novices. The Salem Hills Smack Down was teh first tournament that these debatres had ever gone to and they did amazing. We had four finalists in this tournament. I'm proud of each one of them, they did an excellend job representing Payson High School and I feel very fortunate to be working with the students," said Payson Debate Coach, Marjie Ralph.
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