Rashad Evans, director of the Roger Sherman Debate Society, sends this update of the RSDS’s latest successes:
“I would like to congratulate the sophomore team of Taylor Pasquence and Taylor Wolff for making it all the way to the final round of the CSU-Fullerton national debate tournament. ‘Team Taylor’ beat teams from UNLV, CSU-Chico, San Diego State University and CSU-Northridge before losing a hard fought final debate round to Cornell on a split decision . In one semester, Team Taylor has successfully made the jump from novice to junior varsity debate, which has coined them the name ‘super novices’ around the country. With a tournament win at James Madison University, a finals appearance at CSU-Fullerton and a semi-finals appearance at SUNY-Binghamton, Team Taylor has been successful from east to west and from north to south. They are well on their way to being nationally competitive in the open division. They will next compete at UT-Austin where they will face their strongest competition to date. They are both already hard at work!