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May 10
2024 Debate Team Reflections
O’Dowd’s debate team has been a cornerstone in many students’ transformative experiences. Meeting each week, these students form a...
Apr 1, 2019
Public Forum Debaters Make A Statement in Santa Clara
O’Dowd Debate’s Public Forum debaters Lola Deibert ’21 and Evian Jiang ’20 turned in a superb performance in advancing to the...
Mar 5, 2019
O’Dowd Debaters Qualify to State Tournament
The O’Dowd Parliamentary Debate duo of Sofia Odeste ’19 and Adam Stone ’20 concluded 14 hours of debate on March 2 at James Logan High...
Feb 12, 2019
O’Dowd Debate Shines at Stanford
The Bishop O’Dowd parliamentary debate duo of Alden O’Rafferty & Connor Whitehill put in a terrific semifinal run last weekend at the...
Oct 8, 2018
Debaters Shine at UC Berkeley Invitational
Connor Whitehill ’20 and Alden O’Rafferty ’19 take second place at the UC Berkeley Parliamentary Debate Invitational O’Dowd debaters...
Mar 23, 2018
Claudia Hester ’18 Named a Speech and Debate Academic All American
Fewer than 500 of the more than 141,000 student members of the National Speech & Debate Association earn this award every year – placing...
Feb 26, 2018
Junior Varsity Debaters Earn Honors at Nueva School Invitational
O’Dowd parliamentary debaters traveled to the Nueva School in San Mateo last weekend for a debate competition with 22 other area schools....
Feb 15, 2018
Debate Update – Stanford University
As many of you know, our students joined forces with nearly 300 other schools at Stanford University last weekend for its annual speech...
Jan 22, 2018
Palos Verdes Peninsula Tournament Recap
The following is a brief summary of the outstanding accomplishments O’Dowd students earned at this past weekend’s Peninsula Palos Verdes...
Nov 20, 2017
Debate Shines at Invitational
Bishop O’Dowd High School debaters endured three exceptionally long days of competition last weekend, with nearly 1,700 other students...