Edna duos Kyle and Tiffany Zheng, and Krystin Nieto and Violet Khan earned the top two spots at the National Speech and Debate Association competition in La Vernia, and will be able to compete at Nationals on June 14-19 in Richmond, Virginia.
The win has put Edna High School on the map for NSDA nationals, where 7,000 students will compete over 750 classrooms. Often referred to as the Olympics of Speech & Debate Contests, they will compete against the best of the best.
Now, the students, their families and their coach, Mark Ruiz, are looking for and accepting donors to help them get to nationals. Had it not been for an anonymous $1,000 donation, they wouldn’t have been able to get to the district in La Vernia.
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