ANNOUNCEMENTS

University of Oregon - Robert D. Clark Invitational

This weekend we have 21 students competing in 37 events in Eugene, Oregon!

State Championship Tournament Results

April 22-23, 2022:

Lincoln Speech and Debate took home the THIRD PLACE OVERALL trophy for 6A high schools. This was due to the spectacular results of our kids.

STATE CHAMPION - Informative Speaking - Kate Bingham
STATE CHAMPION - Original Oratory - Kate Bingham
STATE CHAMPION - After Dinner Speaking - Alyssia Menezes
2ND PLACE - Extemporaneous Speaking - Alyssia Menezes
2ND PLACE - Student Congress - Tara Subramaniam
2ND PLACE - Policy Debate - Angela Zhang & Iris WeaverBell
FINALIST - Student Congress - William Sanchez

We have created a school pay link for student dues. If your family is financially able to provide extra dues, or a scholarship, it would go a long way to helping less fortunate students and will help make the team more equitable and successful. Dues are $350 for the year.

School pay link: https://pps.schoolpay.com/pay/for/Speech--Debate-Fee/ScrYifK?p=yes

Thank you,

Ben Harrison

Hello Lincoln Speech and Debate students and families.,

As we begin the 2021-2022 season, I am sure everyone has a lot of questions. Unfortunately, due to the ongoing pandemic, there are less answers than I would prefer. What I can tell you is that we have the go-ahead to resume in-person practices for the time being. Mandatory team meetings will begin on Tuesday, September 28th from 4:00 - 6:00 pm in the Lincoln High School Cafeteria (and will continue to be Tuesdays at 4:00pm). Our first meeting will be to introduce myself to the team, and introduce new coaching staff, as well as hear from our captains about their plans for the season. Wednesday afternoons will be the opportunity for Individual Events, Congress, and Practice Rounds.

Our first team tournament will be the virtual Sandy Kickoff on October 16th. There are few tournaments on the actual schedule at this point, as schools determine whether or not in-person or virtual is best for their students. I will continue to update everyone as the tournament schedule becomes more concrete.

Please monitor the Google Groups for information regarding team dues, code of conducts, parent/volunteer needs, and more. I will get the Calendar updated shortly.

Thank you so much for your patience as I take over for the 21-22 debate season. I look forward to working with everyone, and a successful debate year!

Ben Harrison- Head Coach

Lincoln Students Compete in Online Big Question Debate

WANG & WEBB HEADED TO NATS 2019 IN CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE

WESTREYS HEADED TO NATS 2019 IN WSD

Sophomores Soren & Leopold Westrey will join three debaters from Westview High School to form the 2019 North Oregon World Schools Debate Blue Team. They will compete at the Speech and Debate Championship in Dallas, TX, June 17-21, 2019

Portland student is Oregon's only representative in national debate tournament categoryPractice makes perfect at Lincoln High School. The local speech and debate team is ready to go national. "This session will come to order," one student blared out, as she banged the gavel to start their mock debate session inside the library. Lincoln High School junior Natalie Wang has been a rising star. On this day, she rose to speak as she prepared for the big stage on which she never thought she'd be standing. “I don’t think I had the expectation that I would get it," Wang said.

Lincoln Speech & Debate Team begins the 2018-19 Season at Wilson 10/13

2017-18

Congratulations to Madeline and Clara who made it to round IX at the National Championship in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, in June 2018.

Junior Policy Debate Captain Madeline Gochee and her debate partner, Senior Clara Schwab, qualify for the 2018 NSDA Championship.

Gochee & Schwab Qualify to National Speech & Debate National Championship 2017-18

SEVENTEEN CARDINALS QUALIFY TO THE 2018 STATE SPEECH & DEBATE CHAMPIONSHIP

Debate

· Alex Wei & Nathan Brunk: alternates, Parliamentary Debate,

· Andrew Sheiman: qualifying to State with Proven Excellence, Congressional Debate

· Ashok Kaushik and Jay Sharabu: 3rd place, Cross-Examination Debate qualifying to State

· Clara Schwab & Madeline Gochee, 1st place (tournament Champion), Cross-Examination Debate, qualifying to State

· Isaac Hoffman: Qualifying to State in Congressional Debate

· Joe Schlechter and Kate Weeks: 2nd place, Cross-Examination Debate, qualifying to State

- Nikhil Samudrala & Joey Mock, alternates, Public Forum Debate

· Sadie Nelson: Qualifying to State in Congressional Debate

· Soren Westrey & Leopold Westrey, qualifying to State with Proven Excellence

· Tavie Kittredge: 1st place (Tournament Champion), Lincoln-Douglas Debate, qualifying to State

Individual Events

· Jamie Bikales, 1st Place (Tournament Champion), Extemporaneous Speaking, qualifying to State

· Lia Voigt and Natalie Shershow, 2nd place, Dual Interpretation, qualifying

to State

· Mei Xu, Alternate, Prose Reading

· Natalie Wang: Expository Speaking, tie for 1st place (tournament co-champion), qualifying to State, and alternate, Radio Commentary;

· Natalie Shershow, 1st place (Tournament Champion), Humorous Interpretation, qualifying to State; 2nd place, Duo Interp, qualifying to State

· Sadie Nelson & Zahra DeShaw, alternates, Dual Interpretation,

· Jiachen Zhang , 2nd place, Literary Interp for English Language Learners (LIELL), qualifying to State

RED denotes first year competitors.

SENIOR JAMIE BIKALES NAMED NSDA EXEMPLARY STUDENT SERVICE AWARD FINALIST

LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL ANNOUNCES POETRY OUT LOUD CONTEST

Lincoln High School announces its school contest for Poetry Out Loud, a national recitation contest, which will take place on February 12th at 4:00 pm. The competition, presented in partnership with the Oregon Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Foundation, is part of a national program that encourages high school students to learn about great poetry through memorization, performance, and competition. School, regional and state contests lead to the National Finals, April 23-25, 2018, at George Washington University, where $50,000 in awards and school stipends will be distributed to contest winners. Want to learn more? Visit: http://www.poetryoutloud.org and/or email jowen@pps.net to get more details and sign up for Lincoln’s POL contest at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfDLRHbs0DMaxw7uu4NVrV7itrZ6VRRp4L3ErBl7AL_wfu31g/viewform?usp=sf_link#start=invite Our school’s deadline for sign up is January 30th.

Lincoln Speech & Debate Team Wins Second in Sweeps at the Wilson Speech & Debate Tournament, Oct. 13-14. For complete results, go to: https://sites.google.com/site/lincolnhsspeechanddebate/about-the-team/results

2016-17

Lincoln Speech & Debate Wins State:

http://www.org/uploads/1/4/1/3/14139144/sweeps_by_classification_2017.pdf

Lincoln Student Congress Wins Sweeps at North Oregon Student Congress & Qualifies Two Students to the NSDA National Championship

LHS S&D Wins the 2017 Portland Interscholastic League Speech & Debate Championship & 23 Advance to State

LHS S&D Team's Abbruzzese & Subramaniam will compete at the 2017 Tournament of Champions in Student Congress

LHS S&D Qualified Three Students to the National Speech and Debate Association's 2017 National Championship & LHS Senior Maia Abbruzzese Named North Oregon Student of the Year

Three of Lincoln Speech & Debate Team's captains qualified to represent North Oregon at the National Speech and Debate Association 2017 National Championship in Birmingham, Alabama, June 18-23. Here's who's going:

Junior Natalie Shershow - 2nd Place, Humorous Interp (NATIONAL QUALIFIER)
Senior Maia Abbruzzese - 1st Place, Oratory (NATIONAL QUALIFIER)
Senior Kate LeBlanc - 3rd Place, International Extemporaneous Speaking (NATIONAL QUALIFIER)

The North Oregon District Student of the Year award was presented to Lincoln Senior, Maia Abbruzzese. The award is presented to the student who best represents the tenets of the National Speech and Debate Association’s Code of Honor: integrity, respect, humility, leadership, and service. Nominees must also demonstrate strong academic credentials and a commitment to the speech and debate community. Each year, six students who win the district award are selected as finalists for the William Woods Tate, Jr., National Student of the Year award. In 2014, Lincoln's McKinley Rodriguez was one of those finalists.

The Lincoln Speech and Debate Team will compete at the National Qualifying Student Congress and Big Question Debate on April 15th at Sprague High School in an effort to qualify more students to Nationals. And, a final option to qualify for Nationals will be selection for the Worlds Schools Debate Team composed of 4-5 students from North Oregon Schools.

Four Lincoln Public Forum Debaters Earn Bids to Tournament of Champions

Lincoln Public Forum (PF) Debate Captain, Senior Kelsey Dunn, and her partner, Senior Laurel McGrane, along with the PF Debate Team of Senior Anisha RajBhandary and Junior Isaac Hoffman closed out at the University of Oregon Clark Invitational on Feb 18-19th thereby each earning one BID to the NATIONAL TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS (TOC) in Kentucky in April 2017. They debated the following resolution: The United States should no longer pressure Israel to work toward a two-state solution. PF topics run for a month at a time. The format is based on the CNN show Crossfire,and tends to be big-picture analysis of current issues in the news.

These four students are the first Lincoln HS Public Forum Debaters to earn bids to the TOC. Two years ago, Brian Yang won a bid in Lincoln-Douglas Debate at the Whitman Tournament. And, last year Brad Subramaniam earned a bid in Student Congress from the Bear Brawl Tournament and at large bid to compete in the TOC in Lexington, KY, in April 2016. Each public forum debate team needs two bids to qualify for the prestigious tournament which takes place at the University of Kentucky each year. Congratulations to Kelsey, Laurel, Anisha and Isaac and best wishes for continuing success in Public Forum Debate. To learn more about TOC, visit: https://ci.uky.edu/toc/

Lincoln Junior Jamie Bikales Named Academic All American by the National Speech & Debate Association

February 2017Junior Jamie Bikales has been named the first National Speech & Debate Academic All Americans on the Lincoln Speech and Debate Team from the LHS Class of 2018. The other six team members who are Academic All Americans include seniors Daniel Cohen, Brad Subramaniam, Kelsey Dunn, Laurel McGrane, Sheila Panyam and Kate LeBlanc. The award recognizes speech and debate excellence and academic success. Member students may be nominated for this prestigious award by meeting several criteria including maintaining Academic All American:

· Degree of Superior Distinction on record (750 points)

· Completed at least five semesters of high school

· GPA of 3.7 on a 4.0 scale (or its equivalent)

· NOTE: If the GPA is between 3.5 and 3.7 on a 4.0 scale (or its equivalent), the student also must have received an ACT score of 27 or higher, or a New SAT score of 1300 or higher

Jamie is the team officer in charge of recruitment and retention for the Lincoln Speech and Debate Team as well as the student coordinator of the West Sylvan Middle School Speech and Debate Club. Jamie’s primary form of debate this year is Lincoln-Douglas (a values-based debate) and he regularly competes in Expository, Extemporaneous and Impromptu Speaking. He serves as the editor-in-chief of the Cardinal Times and has been known to write and perform slam poetry. In fact, he represented Lincoln at Verselandia his freshmen year of high school. Jamie was also a member of the Lincoln Constitution National Championship Team in 2016 and he is a member of the Lincoln High School Tennis Team.

For a complete list of current NSDA Academic All Americans go to: http://points.speechanddebate.org/points_application/rptAcademicAllAmerican.php

6th Lincoln Student Named Academic All American by the National Speech & Debate Association

December 2016

Senior Kate LeBlanc has been named the most recent of six National Speech & Debate Academic All Americans on the Lincoln Speech and Debate Team from the LHS Class of 2017. The others include seniors Daniel Cohen, Brad Subramaniam, Kelsey Dunn, Laurel McGrane and Sheila Panyam. The award recognizes speech and debate excellence and academic success. Member students may be nominated for this prestigious award by meeting several criteria including maintaining Academic All American:

· Earned the degree of Superior Distinction (750 points)

· Completed at least 5 semesters of high school

· Demonstrated outstanding character and leadership

- Earned a GPA of 3.7 on a 4.0 scale (or its equivalent) NOTE: If you earned a GPA between 3.5 and 3.7 on a 4.0 scale (or its equivalent),

· Received an ACT score of 27 or higher, or a New SAT score of 1300 or higher

While only in her second year of competition, Kate LeBlanc is a team captain of spontaneous individual events and she competes in Original Oratory, Extemporaneous Speaking, Student Congress, Parliamentary and Lincoln-Douglas Debate as well as other events.

For a complete list of current NSDA Academic All Americans go to: http://points.speechanddebate.org/points_application/rptAcademicAllAmerican.php

About the National Speech & Debate Association

The National Speech & Debate Association is the largest interscholastic speech and debate organization serving middle school, high school, and collegiate students in the United States. The Association provides competitive speech and debate activities, high-quality resources, comprehensive training, scholarship opportunities, and advanced recognition to more than 130,000 students and coaches every year. For nearly 90 years, the National Speech & Debate Association has empowered more than 1.5 million members to become engaged citizens, skilled professionals, and honorable leaders in our society. For more information, visit www.speechanddebate.org.

Lincoln's Subramaniam, Ehlers & Abbruzzese Earn Bids to Tournament of Championship Tournament

Lincoln Speech & Debate Team Student Congress Co-Captains Senior Brad Subramaniam and Senior Jake Ehlers, placed 1st & 4th, respectively, and Senior Maia Abbruzzese placed 5th out of 51 Open Student Congress Competitors at the Central Valley High School Bear Brawl Speech & Debate Invitational in Spokane Valley, Nov. 11 & 12, thereby each earning one BID to the NATIONAL TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS in Kentucky in April 2016. Brad was the first student congress competitor from Oregon to compete at the TOC Student Congress last year. Congratulations to Brad, Jake & Maia and best wishes for continuing success in student congress! Thanks to Student Congress Coach Garrett Broberg for helping us double the number of TOC bids earned at this year's Bear Brawl. To learn more about TOC, visit: https://ci.uky.edu/toc/

LHS S&D Sets Meeting Schedule for 2016-17

Tuesday*- 3:30 to 6:30 pm - Meet in Cafeteria

1st Hour - Individual Events & Congress

2nd & 3rd Hours - All debate formats including Congress

Wednesday**- 3:30 to 5:30 pm - Meet in Rm 143

Practice Rounds/Coaching

*Mandatory

**Optional

2015-16

LHS S&D Qualifies Three Students to the National Speech and Debate Association's 2016 National Tournament

Three of Lincoln Speech & Debate Team's captains qualified to represent North Oregon at the National Speech and Debate Association 2016 National Championship in Salt Lake City, Utah, June 12-17. Winning two of four North Oregon student congress spots at the April 18th National Qualification Student Congress in Sprague, here's how our team leads did:

Junior Sheila Panyam (Prepared Individual Events Captain), House 2, 2nd Alternate Speaker (NATIONAL QUALIFIER)
Junior Zachary Nash (Limited Prep Individual Events Captain), House 1 ,1st Speaker (NATIONAL QUALIFIER)

Additionally, Senior Orion Cleaver (Parli Debate Captain) was selected to be one of a five-member Worlds School Debate from North Oregon for the National Championship.

Lincoln's Subramaniam Will Compete at the 2016 Tournament of Champions

Lincoln Speech & Debate Student Congress Co-Captain Junior Brad Subramaniam received his 2nd and qualifying bid to earn an invitation to the Tournament of Champions (TOC) through the at-large process. To earn a coveted invitation to the Tournament of Champions, the premier high school debate national championship hosted by the University of Kentucky Debate Team, high school students need to win at least two bids by placing amongst the top finishers at competitive TOC-bid qualifying tournaments and/or earning an one at-large bid. The TOC at-large bids are granted to a handful of highly competitive debaters in the nation who have secured at least one bid at a tournament earlier in the season. Brad earned his first TOC bid at the Central Valley High School Bear Brawl Speech & Debate Invitational in Spokane Valley in November 2015. Brad, the son of Drs. Subramaniam Seetharaman and Gordana Dragosavac, was Oregon’s 2nd place speaker in Student Congress at the 2015 State Championship and he also competes in Public Forum Debate, Radio Commentary, Impromptu Speaking and Poetry Reading. Congratulations and best wishes to Brad in Lexington, KY, as he competes as Oregon’s only competitor in the field of 128 of the nation’s top Student Congress Debaters, April 30-May 2.

LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL ANNOUNCES THE 2016 WINNERS OF THE ANNUAL POETRY SLAM

The Lincoln Speech & Debate Team with support from the school’s librarians sponsored the 5th Annual Poetry Slam in which 10 students competed in two rounds of competition on March 30th in the school library. Slam Poetry is competitive spoken word performance poetry written and performed in any style on any subject by the poet. The competition puts a dual emphasis on writing and performance. Students have three minutes to perform before an engaged and responsive audience. Judges rate speakers from 0-10 and display poets’ scores immediately. This year’s judges were Professors Sara Sutter (University of Portland), Pancho Savery (Reed College) and John Beer (Portland State University). Thanks to today's team volunteers for helping run today's contest: Jake Ehlers, Jamie Bikales, Yikai Peng and Loy Msafiri. Photos from the event are at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/wanderingkayaks/albums/72157666519893116

Congratulations to this year’s top Slam Poets:

1st Place- Junior Maia Abbruzzese

2nd Place – Junior Sheila Panyam

Runner Up – Senior Fiona Lett-Alagoz

Maia and Sheila will represent LHS as they advance to the Grand Slam known as Verselandia on Monday, April 18th at 7 pm., at the Newmark Theater where they will compete for big prizes. The competition, presented in partnership with Literary Arts and Portland Public Schools, is sponsored by AHA and the Wieden & Kennedy. To learn more about the event, visit: http://www.literary-arts.org/event/2016-verselandia/

Lincoln will host the 2nd Annual Rose City Round Robin in February (2017- Date will be 2/17 & 2/18)

Lincoln Speech & Debate Team will host the 2nd Annual Rose City Round Robin February 26 & 27. The debate tournament will offer five preliminary rounds of Policy, Lincoln-Douglas and Public Forum debate as well as a few rounds of Worlds Debate. For more details visit: http://www.forensicstournament.net/RoseCityRoundRobin/16/home/

Lincoln's Cleaver and Hoffman Earn Bid to National Individual Events Tournament of Championship Tournament in Duo Interp

Lincoln Speech & Debate Team Student Captains/Seniors Orion Cleaver and Noah Hoffman, placed 3rd out of 22 Open Duo Interp teams at Ridgefield's Spudder Tournament, December 11-12, 2015, thereby earning their FIRST BID to the NATIONAL INDIVIDUAL EVENTS TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS in Denver in May 2016. Congratulations to Noah & Orion and best wishes for continuing success! To learn more about NIETOC, visit: http://www.nietoc.com/

Lincoln Speech & Debate Team to attend Adam Gopnik Lecture

Our team has been selected to receive tickets to attend the Adam Gopnik lecture at the Schitzer on January 21st at 7:30 p.m.Thanks to support from Literary Arts for making this possible! Adam Gopnik, a staff writer, has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1986. If you would like to join the Lincoln Speech and Debate Team to receive a free ticket (courtesy of Literary Arts) to see author/commentator Adam Gopnik speak on January 21, 2016, at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall at 7:30 pm, please complete this form. To sign up for a free ticket go to: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11VOcgS9oS6CO4-CIu8pfn3E6dM0U7RNGNFtna-Iz6m0/viewform

Lincoln Speech & Debate will participate in Everybody Reads 2016

Our team has been selected to participate in Everybody Reads 2016 The Book of Unknown Americans, by Christina Henriquez.

Thanks to financial support from The Library Foundation, we will receive copies of The Book of Unknown Americans and project guides. A list of related programming, lectures and discussions will be available on the project website soon. multcolib.org/everybody-reads

Books may be available in late December/early January. Thanks to support from Literary Arts, our team members are also eligible to

attend the author lecture on March 8, 2016. To sign up to participate with fellow team members go to: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Xdn9YdN96ZBtnAoby1DNf3xarwAamU2eebTNsvDHl00/viewform

Lincoln's Subramaniam Earns Bid to Tournament of Championship Tournament

Lincoln Speech & Debate Team Student Congress Co-Captain Junior Brad Subramaniam, placed sixth out of 46 Open Student Congress Competitors at the Central Valley High School Bear Brawl Speech & Debate Invitational in Spokane Valley, Nov. 13-14, thereby earning his FIRST BID to the NATIONAL TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS in Kentucky in April 2016. LHS Student Congress Co-Captain Subramaniam is the first student congress competitor from Lincoln to earn a TOC bid in Student Congress. Congratulations to Brad and best wishes for continuing success! To learn more about TOC, visit: https://ci.uky.edu/toc/

Lincoln to Host Rose City Student Student Congress

Our team will host the Rose City Student Congress at Cleveland High School held in conjunction with the Middle School Tournament there on 11/10/15. All LHS Team members will compete in the congress, coach middle schoolers from West Sylvan or judge at the Middle School Tournament. The congress will feature a Portland-themed prizes as well as an award for best Portland-themed dress/costume.

Parent Meeting Takes Place on 9/29

We will hold a parent meeting on Tuesday, September 29th at 5:30 p.m., in the school library immediately following our team meeting. We'll discuss team requirements, review the 2015-16 season, train parents to serve as volunteer judges for speech & debate tournaments and sign up volunteer judges/drivers for this year's season. Please bring driver's license, proof of car insurance and your calendar.

CHANGE: Forest Grove Novice Workshop Will Now Takes on Place 9/26 - Sign Up Live

posted Sep 8, 2015, 9:19 PM by jennifer owen [ updated Sep 8, 2015, 9:23 PM ]

THE NEW DATE FOR THE WORKSHOP IS 9/26.

New team members are encouraged to participate in a novice workshop at Forest Grove on September 19th (deadline for signup is 9/14/15). Sign up at: https://sites.google.com/site/lincolnhsspeechanddebate/students/tournament-sign-ups

2015-16 Speech & Debate Meetings Begin

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The Lincoln Speech & Debate will hope its first general team meeting on Tuesday, September 8th, from 3:30 to 5:30 pm in the school library.