Byron Speech and Debate

Brooklyn and Patrick were undefeated at 2 UIL tournaments and qualified to state! Patrick made semis and finals, went 12-1 at flower mound. Next month we're headed to nat-quals and we've got 2 state championships on the horizon! Let’s go bobcats!

Today, we went to UIL Region for Congressional Debate. It was all of our competitor's first time doing congress, and everyone did well, Patrick placing 6th! Go bobcats!!

Our run at UNT is officially over! Reese broke to semis for Original Oratory and Patrick finished tied for third and as the third place speaker for Varsity LD!! Go bobcats!

This weekend, our LDers had a solid start to the season at our first tounament of the year at Grapevine and are ready to start training novices the rest of the year. Everyone learned a lot and had a good time... We're ready to make some good things happen this year!

Officer Election results are in: President- Patrick Vice President- Brooklyn Secretary- Sophia Historian- Carly Treasurer- Reese Congratulations to everyone who ran. Also, a huge thank you to Mrs. Dollar, and our current President, Jacob, who led the program to success this year!

Jacob, Patrick, and Sophia coming out of UIL region... No breaks, but good experience, and we're ready to pick up some ballots NSDA Districts this weekend..

We also had interp entries, but they ran away before we could take the picture...

UIL Districts is a wrap! Patrick got 1st in persuasive extemporaneous speaking, Jacob placed 2nd in informative, and Sophia placed 3rd in LD! Region, here we come!

Great work by Byron Nelson High School students Jacob White and Patrick Maher for competing in the UIL State Cross-Examination Debate event held in Austin! Jacob and Patrick were undefeated in the preliminary rounds and finished 6th overall in the state's 6A division.

@WCHSDebate Congratulations!

Churchill Blanton/Stone are your 2022 UIL 6A CX STATE CHAMPIONS!!! This means WC are the Back-To-Back state champs in policy debate!

Patrick and Jacob's state run ended at quarterfinals, but we still had an outstanding record and run... Next up is district for LD and extemp!

Today is the day! A happy NSDE Day to all the incredible coaches, bright students and hardworking people who make this art happen! There is still time to download your team toolkit to celebrate with your team today! bit.ly/3MeYAhz).

Season going strong and you know there will be more successes on the way! Proud of our BNHS debate team and their continued effort and hard work!

And of course, congratulations to our team president Joey who qualifies to NIETOC and TFA State in Foreign Extemp!

We've been competing in an online format since August and boy it sure is time to hit some mid-season highlights for the BNHS Debate team!

Dhilan's UIL famous now!

First session of congress is done today and like any good representative, he's gotta interview afterwards. Fox Southwest interviews him about UIL State!