The FHN Speech and Debate club is in full swing, with the next competition on Dec. 9 and 10.

At practices the club prepares for their own events by doing practice debates, public speaking skills and developing their personal strategy. Co-vice president and senior Savanna Degenhardt competes in the public forum and congressional debate events.

“While we are all competing individually or in pairs at competitions, we all help each other practice,” Degenhardt said.

Speech and Debate has both varsity
and novice subdivisions, and includes debate categories like public forum, where competitors debate with a partner against another pair. The Lincoln-Douglas debate is when participants compete solo.

“I feel pretty good about our performance, we usually do pretty well,” Degenhardt said. “The novices are good and I expect them to get better as the season goes on.”