Raub helps UNG Debate Team to multiple awards at Blazer Classic

2014 Dec 9

Tristan Raub of Richmond Hill, Georgia, a sophomore at the University of North Georgia (UNG), helped the UNG Debate Team in securing three first place overall honors at the Blazer Classic Debate Tournament held October 24-25 at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia. Raub is majoring in international affairs at UNG's Dahlonega Campus, and also achieved the following: 9th Place Novice Debate Speaker.

The teams' performance marked the best performance by any UNG team in debate club history, and represented the first time UNG had taken overall awards in all three categories of debate -- Two-Person Debate (sponsored by the National Parliamentary Debate Association); One-Person Debate (sponsored by the International Public Debate Association); and Combined Overall between the two categories.