This past Friday/Saturday I was judging at Columbia.
It was definitely a blast from the past with all the high school debaters now joining the college parli debate circuit (APDA).
I saw Abhi who went to my HS AFTER I graduated, Thurm who I had judged throughout his HS career and Andrew, used to coach at Bronx who I finally convinced to join the circuit!
I also met the new Fordham novices, they seem like a good crowd now. I think Fordham is heading toward the right track - old school, fun Fordham again! Which makes me super happy!!! I wont go into too much detail, but those who spoke to me know my take on the team...
Between Round 2 & 3, Lily kicked off the first "Women's Initative" mixer event, which was great! It was nice for all the girls to be in a room together to talk about girl power, but idk it was weird that it was segregated - not a big fan of that... kind of defeats the purpose to some extent... But good in theory.
I had the pleasure of staying with Clara Friday night - so of course I had an awesome night. I <3 that girl!!!
The team rented out a frat house for the party which was pretty sweet to say the least. I paried a bit w/ Eric, who I thought hated me... I guess he doesnt! :) And it was just good to finally see him in a different light - other than that debater from Scarsdale - lol.
On Saturday I stayed til semis and FINALLY got to judge and see Coulter (part of Harvard Lion King) debate! He was fabulous! Sadly I had to drop Clara/Mark to them though :(
Happy to say that Andrew/Sam won the Novice division and Coulter/Loomis won the entire tournament!
Congrats! :)
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