2024-2025: Lettering Standards (Current)

For students to earn a Letter for Speech and Debate, they need to do the following: 

• Attend 35, 2-hours long, practices or the equivalent in hours.

• Compete on the State Team or on the National Qualifier Tournament Team.

  • • • Serving on the Research Pod for Debate counts as being on the State Team

      • Serving in House or Senate for Congress counts as being on the Nat Quals Team

• Compete at the Majority of Varsity Tournaments as a Varsity Member (5/7)

• Need to have done one of the following: 

  • • • Be in Top 16 at 4 or more Varsity tournaments

      • Place First or be in the top 3 as a Varsity Competitor at one or more Varsity tournament. 

      • Place First at State, becoming the State Champion, OR be confirmed All-American (Top 4 at State)

      • Be a National Qualifier (1st or 2nd place) or First Alternate (3rd place) at the Qualifying tournament

      • Break (make it past preliminary rounds) at the National Tournament