What Is Speech and Debate? 

Joining the speech and debate team provides students with an amazing opportunity to challenge themselves academically, achieve personal growth, and improve their critical thinking, argumentative, and communications skills. You probably know of many highly successful individuals who participated in their high school speech and debate teams from Oprah Winfrey and Adam Sandler to Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, and Margaret Thatcher. While participation on the team no way guarantees such amazing success, it is our hope that this team can give students the resources to do whatever it is they desire. To do this, however, we set high standards, expect dedication, and require excellence. It is our opinion that no member of the team who works hard and applies him or herself should not do well and achieve his or her own goals.