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Sarah Backhaus Sarah came to Truman from Liberty High School which she represented when winning the MSHSAA State Championships in CX Debate in 2007. She met almost immediate success in parliamentary and Lincoln-Douglas debate upon entering Truman as a freshman. She reached semifinals in parliamentary debate of the Novice National Championships and shared the Lincoln-Douglas Championship at Novice Nationals with Dylan Clark and Barbara Gillard. During the regular seasons she experienced a great deal of success in both events, and even a little extemp! |
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Mark Buchheit Mark competed in policy debate at Carthage high school in southwest Missouri. While there he reached the semifinals of the Missouri State Tournament. Since his arrival at Truman he has reached the semifinals of the prestigous University of the Pacific Round Robin twice, as well as elimination rounds of multiple invitational tournaments in parliamentary debate. He reached the double-octafinals of the NPDA Championship Tournament in 2008. |
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Dylan Clark Dylan competed for Pattonville High School in Maryland Heights, Missouri before coming to Truman as a freshman in 2007. He reached elimination rounds in parliamentary debate at several tournaments during his freshman year, including at the Novice National Championships. He reached semifinals in parliamentary debate at Novice Nationals and closed-out the final round of Lincoln-Douglas debate with his teamates, Sarah Backhaus and Barbara Gillard. |
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Barbara Gillard Barbara Gillard had an outstanding freshman year during the 2007-2008 season, with her greatest successes in Lincoln-Dogulas Debate, winning tournaments on the novice and JV level and sharing the Novice National Championship with her teammates Sarah Backhaus and Dylan Clark. |
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Christopher Girouard Chris competed for Marquette High School, in St. Louis. He was primarily a Public Forum competitor, representing his school at the MSHSAA State Tournament. At Truman he has grown significantly as a parliamentary debater, reaching elimination rounds at the 2006 NPDA championships, and reaching elimination rounds at several invitational tournaments in his first two years of competition. He was a quarterfinalist at the 2007 Pi Kappa Delta Nationals and a triple-octafinalist at the 2007 NPDA National Championships. |
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Susan Presley Susan, Forensics' non-traditional (old) student member, is an inter-dimensional being, splitting her existence between Missouri, her childhood home, and Texas, where she led her other childhood. She is a retired Japanese Whaling Commission member, starting her early career by swabbing the decks, working her way up to lead harpoonist. After an epiphany during which a bright light shone and a whale spoke to her, quoting the combined works of Kafka and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Susan changed her seafaring ways and returned to college. Her adult son shared the epiphany, and works in management for Greenpeace while dabbling in writing PR notes. Susan's debate skills are largely self-taught and she remains undefeated, in her own estimation (with reality being quite different). She is a junior Communication major, hoping to graduate sometime before collecting Social Security. Susan aspires to use her experience in the medical field to achieve a second career in health care journalism. |
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