{"id":292161,"date":"2014-02-18T14:57:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T20:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=292161"},"modified":"2014-02-19T15:10:52","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T21:10:52","slug":"utt-earns-top-spot-at-debate-tournament-prepares-for-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=292161","title":{"rendered":"UTT Earns Top Spot at Debate Tournament, Prepares for National Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=292162\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-292162\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/02\/thumb_uttyler1-150x120.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_uttyler\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-292162\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; The University of Texas at Tyler continues its tradition of excellence in parliamentary debate by earning another top spot in competition and a place in the national championship, Dr. Martin Slann, College of Arts and Sciences dean, announced.  UT Tyler sophomore political science major Kaitlyn Bull of Powderly and freshman social sciences major Sam Cook of Flint placed second overall at the Point Loma Nazarene University tournament, held in San Diego, Calif.  Bull also received an award that recognizes the top five speakers at the tournament, which is considered one of the premier National Parliamentary Tournament of Excellence events during the spring semester and showcases some of the best debaters in the country, according to a UTT news release.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey performed very well,\u201d said Dr. Charles Walts, UT Tyler director of forensics. \u201cThis is the right time of year to have a good showing at a tournament because it positions us to do well at nationals.\u201d   UT Tyler will now prepare for the national championship, to be held next month at Northern Arizona University.  UT Tyler was most recently ranked ninth in the 2013-14 National Parliamentary Tournament of Excellence rankings. The national rankings are from a field of more than 250 collegiate debate teams. NPTE\u2019s ranking system determines who qualifies for the national tournament.   UT Tyler\u2019s program competes in both NPTE and the National Parliamentary Debate Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The University of Texas at Tyler continues its tradition of excellence in parliamentary debate by earning another top spot in competition and a place in the national championship, Dr. Martin Slann, College of Arts and Sciences dean, announced. UT Tyler sophomore political science major Kaitlyn Bull of Powderly and freshman social sciences major &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=292161\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UTT Earns Top Spot at Debate Tournament, Prepares for National Championship<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 08:29:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292164,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292161\/revisions\/292164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}