September 2009
Team Canada 2010 claims resounding victory in Scotland
Report filed by Team Canada Coach Tracey Lee
September 13, 2009--After debating at George Heriot's School, Morrison's Academy and Craigmount School during the week leading up to the Four Nation's West Coast World's Cup, I am pleased to report that Team Canada 2010 has concluded a very successful tour of Scotland with a resounding victory at St. Columba's School!
Congratulations to the Team Canada team of Iqbal Kassam, Keenan MacNeal and Veenu Goswami who marched to the finals with an impressive 3-0 record before taking on the opposition team of Jonathan Carson, Vinayak Mishra and Sophie Bird. Yes, it was an all Canadian final as two of our three teams posted an impressive 4-0 preliminary record, edging out the top Scottish schools of George Heriot's and St. Columba's by mere speaker points.
I was very proud of our team on this trip; not only were they in fine form at the tournament, they have been a positive, enthusiastic and well-behaved group - it's been a pleasure coaching and chaperoning them on this trip and I have received many compliments from our host schools and families on their behalf. A terrific experience overall!
March 2009
Former CSDF debater and National Seminar organizer wins title of Canada's Next Great Prime Minister
Congratulations to Amy Marlene, former debater from Alberta who recently won the Canada's Next Great Prime Minister contest on CBC. Amy was a National Seminar delegate in 2005 and also was the host of the 2007 National Student Debating Seminar in Ottawa.
February 2009
Team Canada's Results from the 2009 World Schools Debating Championships in Athens, Greece
Our team of Tim Abdulla, Pam Cohen, Sam Greene, Iqbal Kassam and Daniel Lewis, under the leadership of coach Tracey Lee acquitted themselves extremely well at the 2009 WSDC tournament in Athens. At the end of the eight preliminary rounds we were standing in 6th position, having had only one loss and seven wins. The octo-final presented no problems but in the quarter finals we were up against the only team who had beaten us during the preliminary wounds. Alas, we were not to get our revenge and went down to an excellent team who finally won the entire tournament with a resounding 7 – 1 win. We remained in 6th position but were delighted that in the individual speakers’ competition all five of our speakers finished in the top 50, with Iqbal Kassam in the top 10. Congratulations to our Team and Coach!
WSDC 2010 and 2011
The dates have now been confirmed for the next two world tournaments:
2010 - Doha, Qatar, February 8 - 19
2011 - Dundee, Scotland, August 16 - 26