PLNU Debaters Atop Nation Wide Rankings
Although it is still very early in the season, and this is an incomplete set of data from parliamentary debater tournaments held thus far, I wanted to share with you the first set of nationwide sweepstakes rankings posted by the National Parliamentary Debate Association. The season is very long and there are many more tournaments extending through March or April in the Spring, but the early nationwide rankings are very encouraging.
Point Loma Nazarene University is currently ranked in First Place, so I thought it might be a good time to pass this along. :-) By tomorrow more tournaments could be entered that will vastly change these rankings. But for now it is fun to see the hard work of the students, coaches and alumni recognized in this manner.
Thanks for working with the students in your classes allowing them to participate in the tournaments, and teaching them valuable knowledge from which they can craft strong arguments on the many and varied topics we debate, which change from round to round. Novices, Juniors and Seniors all contribute to this group effort. I have just included the top 59 schools in this list as of this date, though hundreds of colleges and major universities participate across the nation.
In a time study of the aggregate results over the past nearly 20 years since NPDA started keeping such records of nationwide year end sweepstakes points, PLNU is in first place by a fairly substantial margin over the second place school (by about a third of the total points). It is exciting to see this years' team take up the challenge of adding to that long and strong tradition of academic excellence in this challenging activity.
We appreciate the continued support of the school, the professors, staff, alumni and other contributors.
