There’s no arguing it, Halifax high school student Innessa
Colaiacovo is Nova Scotia’s top debater.
The Halifax Grammar School student was also a member of the
winning debate team at this year’s Nova Scotia Impromptu
Debating Championships, held this past weekend in
Dartmouth.
Rounding out the winning team from Halifax Grammar was
Vinayak Mishra.
Innessa defeated Shalini Rao of Sacred Heart School of
Halifax to take the individual title, while the Halifax
Grammar team topped the defending champions from Sacred Heart
3-0.
Innessa and runner-up Shalini will represent the province
at the 2008 Canwest National Public Speaking Tournament, held
in Winnipeg in February.
Innessa will also join Andrew Morrison of Sacred Heart,
John Lazovskis of Sydney Academy and Anna Wedlock of Middleton
Regional High School for the National Student Debating Seminar
in British Columbia in November.
In other matters, tryouts for the Nova Scotia debating
team, which will head to the Team Canada qualifying tournament
next month, were held in Halifax on Sunday. Deirdre Casey of
Sacred Heart, Daniel Lewis of Halifax Grammar and Maureen
MacIsaac of Sydney Academy were all awarded spots on the
provincial team.
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