{"id":14495,"date":"2019-11-11T21:11:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T03:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=14495"},"modified":"2019-11-11T21:12:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T03:12:20","slug":"mpas-biggest-debate-team-at-two-tournaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2019\/11\/11\/mpas-biggest-debate-team-at-two-tournaments\/","title":{"rendered":"MPA&#8217;s Biggest Debate Team Succeeds At Two Tournaments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14496 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/debatewpstory-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"MPA's largest 52 student debate team\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/>This weekend, MPA sent out the biggest debate team in school history to compete. Fifty-two students competed at the Minneapolis Southwest and Minnehaha Tournaments, and 28 students took home awards!<\/p>\n<p>In the Novice B division, the teams of Amanda Xie and Graham Li, Prescott Hutton and Noah Marnach, and Nathan Harvanko and Tyler Schell received awards with 3-1 records, while Henry Feng and Steve Min placed third and Salma Ali and Lucia Simon were second in the division.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the Novice A division, the teams of Tanner Gasteazoro and Chloe Appert took home a ribbon for a 3-1 record, and the team of Zaara Nayak and Kensi Binstadt took home the third-place trophy. In Junior Varsity, the teams of Fiona Blank and Anna Gaudio, Luke Zscheile and Josiah Grabanski, and Ruby Schweiger and Charlotte Bergh took home ribbons for 3-1 records. Beldaja Jama and Meera Dear had a perfect 4-0 record at the Minneapolis Southwest Tournament and took the third-place trophy and Rohit Iyer and Peter Manolis took the second-place trophy with 4 wins at the Minnehaha Tournament. In Varsity, Quincy Lewis and Hana Miller won the Minnehaha competition, while Elli Carlson and Ryan Ghose received an award for a winning record at the Minneapolis Southwest Tournament. Congratulations to the entire team for a great weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, MPA sent out the biggest debate team in school history to compete. Fifty-two students competed at the Minneapolis Southwest and Minnehaha Tournaments, and 28 students took home awards! In the Novice B division, the teams of Amanda Xie and Graham Li, Prescott Hutton and Noah Marnach, and Nathan Harvanko and Tyler Schell received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":14497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28,24,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-school","category-current-families","category-featured-posts","category-middle-school","category-upper-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14499,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14495\/revisions\/14499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}