AJ Storr still not in the portal

John Marshall and Graham Revare are this year’s Rex Copeland Award winners!! The Copeland is awarded to the top ranked team in the country based on FRALB voting. After winning 4 tournaments and being runners up at 2 more, safe to say we agree that MR is pretty impressive. ❤️🔥

ROUND THE SIXTH: Kansas HW has broken a new AFF --- The United States federal government should price non-hydro-powered dam emissions and restructure hydropower licensing in the United States.

Huge congrats to Sophie Leonard and Lucy Pace for competing at the Tournament of Champions in Lexington, KY this past weekend! This is arguably the most competitive, prestigious high school debate tournament and we are super proud of these two seniors!

Come get your car washed at SME this Saturday!

Lucy and Sophie won semis and will be debating in finals at NCFL nationals!

SMS MJ is debating in the finals of the NCFL Grand National Tournament, and this time we are debating our friends SME PL. . . Shawnee Mission is bringing home two trophies tonight and Asra & Sophie get bonus points for the Kansas swag! Let’s go, Raiders!!! #RaiderDB84N6fam💛💚

NATIONAL CHAMPIONS in policy debate!!! Sophie Leonard and Lucy Pace won the final round on a 5-0! They had a great round against SMS Speech & Debate! SME also won a school of excellence award in debate. I’m so proud of these two and this driven, talented group of kids! SME Lancers

Congratulations to Henry & Asra who are your National Runners Up at the 2025 Grand National Tournament!!! We are so proud of our seniors💚💛Huge s/o to Lucy & Sophie (SME Debate/Forensics) who are our National Champions!!! It’s pretty neat to celebrate an all SM School District finals💙

Breaks at NSDA Nats: Policy Debate: Sophie Leonard / Lucy Pace Jaxson Terreros / Ishaan Home Informative: Eliza King

Huge congratulations to our friends SME PL on an excellent career. We are very lucky to travel with and compete against such talented debaters and genuine humans, SME Debate/Forensics . Many debate 🫶s!!!

Lucy and Sophie end their run in round 12. Huge congrats to these two seniors on an an outstanding tournament and an even more phenomenal career!

Jaxson and Ishaan lost round 12 but are still in the tournament and will debate in the top 6 tomorrow morning!

Jaxson and Ishaan win round 13! Only 3 teams remain. They will debate BVN for a spot in finals!

Jaxson and Ishaan lose on a close 3-2 decision to BVN and place 3rd! So proud of these two!

After 4 days and 14 rounds of debate, Maira Parsons and Iman Suleman will compete for a national championship! 🎉🐐🐎 We will debate Taipei American School tomorrow in the finals of National Speech & Debate Association nationals.

NSDA nats results: Jaxson Terreros/Ishaan Home- 3rd, Policy debate Sophie Leonard/Lucy Pace- 9th, Policy debate Eliza King- 10th, Informative Jamie Wilborn- Triple Octos, Big Questions debate Ellen Lund- Double Octos, Storytelling School of Excellence- debate!

This was our largest entry at NSDA nationals and our most successful! I’m so proud of our kids for their hard work, and more importantly, for handling some scary situations with bravery and maturity!

KU Debate kicked off the semester with the first squad meeting of the season this evening! We are excited to welcome a record (unofficial) 𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲-𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞 new debaters to this year’s team! #RockChalk ❤️💙