Debate team takes top regional honors

For the third consecutive year, Walla Walla High School's Speech and Debate team took top honors at the Regional tournament with a first place overall finish in the 4A category.

Regional Champions were:
- Malcolm Gabbard in Lincoln-Douglas Debate (2nd year in a row for Malcolm, 6th year in a row for Wa-Hi)
- Maggie Grant-Herriot in Oratory (2nd year in a row for Maggie and she is reigning State Champion in this event)
- Anna Apostolidis-Morefield in Expository Speaking, Anna was also ranked Top Presiding Officer in Congressional Debate
- Cora Cole in Interpretive Reading
- Amelia Mott in Dramatic Interpretation

In Congressional Debate, Anna Apostolidis-Morefield (3rd) and Russell Skorina (2nd) qualified for State. Noah Deitrick and Wafa Abedin also qualified for State in Individual Events and Jessica Swanson is 1st alternate!

Russell Skorina and Malcolm Gabbard also qualified for Nationals this past weekend. Russell placed 2nd in the Senate in Congressional Debate and Malcolm went undefeated and placed 1st in the Lincoln-Douglas debate. Emma Gregorie also qualified to State in Expository and Emma and Maggie Grant-Herriot are 1st Alternates in Public Forum debate with a 4:1 record at Regionals.