Coppell Speech and Debate teams advance to state

by Divya Kumar News Editor After months of intense practice and excelling at various local tournaments, the Coppell speech and debate teams have made it to their state level of competition. Taking place this week, starting from tomorrow afternoon till Saturday night, the teams will be driving to El Paso to continue competing. In order to have achieved this level, each group of debaters – competing in pairs as partners – was required to get 10 state points. These points were obtained during the local tournaments during which the teams first had to advance to be one of the top eight teams for finals, top six for semi’s and then top four for quarters. Eight…