Team and Individual Highlights of the 2000-2001 season

  • Details and photos of each tournament.

    • Participation and learning: high again

    A record 48 students competed in at least one tournament during the year. Our team members competed in 20 tournaments, speaking in a total of 855 rounds, almost 4 full work-weeks of competitive speaking. That's a lot of learning, and that's always what we are most proud of.

    Major Accomplishments This Year

    48 students active on the team!
    Our key accomplishment is always the number of students who gained the experience of speech preparation and competition.

    A record 24 students competed in debate!
    Bethany's tradition continues to grow in this very educational event.

    We hosted our own tournament once again!
    The "Vocal Viking" has become a standard fall tournament for many teams in the Midwest.

    We continued the PLUM parliamentary debate league.
    We hosted the fourth season of five tournaments, enjoying and learning a lot from our regular competitive friends from Macalester, Gustavus, St. Olaf, U. of Minnesota, Carleton, and Bethel.

    We finished strong in the PLUM season standings.
    For the first time Bethany finished first for the season, and put 7 Bethany speakers in the season's top 10.

    We had a tough and competitive NPDA National Debate Team!
    Our two debate teams went 3-13 in Denver, a bit disappoointing but it was against the best debaters in the nation.

    We captured national gold again!
    Jon and Aaron bounced back and performed superbly debating at Phi Rho Pi Nats in Jacksonville.

    We won our second national team award!
    Our debaters in Jacksonville took our first national team silver medal.


    Team members: 48 Total rounds: 855 Total breaks: 52

    Special Team Awards 2001

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    Most recent update 3 May 2001
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