The School of Outstanding Distinction award is given to the top 10 schools - out of the more than 1600 who competed - at the 2021 National Tournament. Congratulations to Lawrence Free State on earning this historic honor!

Congratulations to Amaya Starks from Piper, who finished 5th in the nation in Original Spoken Word Poetry!

Congratulations to Kaelyn Wellman from Olathe Northwest, who finished in 3rd place in the nation in Extemporaneous Debate!

Congratulations to Tim Huffman of Lawrence Free State, who placed 5th in the nation in United States Extemporaneous Speaking!

Future looks pretty bright from here - EK represented two of the final four in the Glenbrooks novice division this evening!

Seven teams have advanced to the double elimination bracket in policy, competing for three tickets to Louisville: LFS Persinger/Williams Lawrence Dunn/Lushington SMS Rimpson/Pickering ONW Wellman/McKeever SMS Smith/Shaw ONW Zimmerman/Harker SMS Bradley/Hato

Congratulations to our policy debate national qualifiers! SMS Hato / Bradley SMS Smith / Shaw Free State Persinger / Williams

We still need 4 more scorers for THIS FRIDAY to make our Congressional Debate qualifier happen at Piper. If you can help us out, contact Skoglund or DM this account!

Your Congress national qualifiers! House: Viloria (Lawrence) Larson (Bishop Miege) Goulter (Lawrence) Serrano (Sumner) Fritton (SMS) Stammeyer (Free State) Senate: Robertson (OS) Riggins (Lawrence)

Who's going to be our 400th member to keep us at Level 3 for 2022-23?

Congratulations to our 2022 NSDA national qualifiers!

NSDA breaks from East Kansas so far: JaKayla Brown (Sumner) - POI CiCi Hunter (Free State) - HI Ezra Joseph (Free State) - IX Persinger/Williams (Free State) - CX Wellman/McKeever (ONW) - CX Hato/Bradley (SMS) - CX

Advancing to Wednesday competition in main events: Policy Debate - Top 32 Free State Persinger/Williams SMS Bradley/Hato ONW McKeever/Wellman House quarterfinalists Serrano - Sumner Larson - Bishop Miege Viloria - Lawrence Senate semifinalist Riggins - Lawrence

Still rolling in main events: Policy Debate - SMS Hato/Bradley currently debating round 12 among the top 8! House - Helen Viloria (Lawrence) advances to semifinals!

Congratulations to Brooklynn Hato of SMS who will be recognized as a top 14 speaker in policy debate after tomorrow’s final round!

Policy debate: SMS Bradley/Hato finish 8th in the nation and automatically qualify for the 2023 National Tournament in Phoenix, Arizona! Brooklynn Hato was the 3rd speaker!

National Qualifiers in policy debate: Emma Stammeyer / Connor Brown - Lawrence Free State Lucienna Guess / Isabella Guess - Mill Valley Maddie Augustine / Jeremiah Rimpson - SM South

Congratulations to our national qualifiers in Congressional Debate!

Congratulations to our 2023 National Qualifiers!

Congratulations to Niklas Schintgen (Lansing) and Carolina Perez-Lozano (Sumner) who reached final rounds this weekend at NIETOC in Minnesota!