Students of the ACS Athens Debate Club participated in the Deree Invitational that took place at Pierce College on May 20-21, 2022. ACS Athens was represented by 10 debaters and 5 teams and it was a  weekend filled with excitement, critical thinking, logic, reasoning, learning, and lots of laughter!

Although a very close competition, our teams did not break into the semifinals. Arianna Pinna and Alex Andriopoulos were just 9 speaker points off of qualifying for the tournament’s Top 8, and several of our teams were in “breaking rooms” in the last round! 

A huge congratulations to the dedicated members of the ACS Debate Club for learning and growing with us all year. Here’s to a great summer (Debate Camp anyone?) and we will meet again in the Fall for a brand new debate season! 

Student Participants in Alphabetical Order:

  • Alex Andriopoulos
  • Ian Brown
  • Emmanuel Epongo
  • Evangelia Karagkou
  • Iliana Lyssaios
  • Kathleen Morris
  • Ioanna Pantazis
  • Sydney Pina
  • Arianna Pinna
  • Constantine Samarikas

Coaches:

Tommy Lynch, Amalia Zavacopoulou