Penn Debate places first at Ben Davis

By LANGSTON ARTRIP

The Penn Debate Team won the Team Sweepstakes at the Ben Davis Debate Tournament. Penn Debate has won the last five consecutive meets they have competed in.

This team’s success is due to the immense amount of work that everyone puts into this team and how passionate they are about the Penn Debate Team. This is assisted by the middle school program that Coach Jeremy Starkweather and the debate team’s captains have put time and energy into to make sure that they are ready to compete at the high school level. The Penn Debate Team expects only excellence and success in its endeavors and they have achieved and overshot many of their expected goals.

These are the top individual awards.

• 1st Place Lincoln Douglas- Akul Bhambhani

• 2nd Place Lincoln Douglas- Sarah Rooney

• 2nd Place Policy- Kevin Wu & Rebeca Ramirez

• 3rd Place Policy- Leena Khan & Sarah Ahmed
• 3rd Place Public Forum- Alina Luck & Jaanavi Kaushik