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LBSS Debate Team: State and National Winners
Lake Braddock's team won its second consecutive state title; senior Katelyn Sheehan wins national title.
The Debate Team defended its Virginia High School League (VHSL) AAA State Championship title recently in Lynchburg, Va. It's the team's second state title in two years.
"Lake Braddock is the second Northern Virginia team to achieve back-to-back titles," said Debate and Speech Coach Duane Hyland. "The first was Arlington's Yorktown High School in 2006 and 2007," he said. Hyland -- it so happens -- was Yorktown's coach at that time.
Senior Katelyn Sheehan was crowned the VHSL AAA State Champion in the Lincoln Douglas Debate, earning her second consecutive state championship.
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Freshman Joshua Wartel earned VHSL AAA State Champion in Student Congress.
At the National Catholic Forensic League Grand National Speech & Debate Tournament at Towson University in Maryland, Katelyn Sheehan won the NCFL National Championship in Lincoln Douglas Debate.
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Sheehan is the first Lake Braddock student to win a national championship in Lincoln Douglas debate, and only the second Virginia student to win the championship in the tournament's history.
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