{"id":51249,"date":"2010-11-10T17:41:54","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T23:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=51249"},"modified":"2010-11-11T16:31:49","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T22:31:49","slug":"debate-team-at-ut-tyler-ranked-fourth-in-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=51249","title":{"rendered":"Debate Team at UT Tyler Ranked Fourth in Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=51250\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51250\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2010\/11\/thumb_uttyler-150x120.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_uttyler\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-51250\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTYLER &#8212; The debate team at The University of Texas at Tyler is now ranked fourth among the more than 350 collegiate teams across the nation, Dr. Dennis Cali, Department of Communication chair, announced. Much like national rankings for college sports, the debate rankings play a major role in the seeding of teams for the national tournament, according to Dr. Charles Walts, assistant professor of communication, who is in his second year as director of forensics.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a major accomplishment for the program,\u201d said Walts. \u201cThe higher your rank, the better chances you have of succeeding.\u201d  Previously, UT Tyler\u2019s highest rank held was 60th during the 2009-10 season.  \u201cThis kind of jump in the rankings is an indicator of how well we are debating this year and how we have transitioned from a regional program to a national contender,\u201d Walts added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The debate team at The University of Texas at Tyler is now ranked fourth among the more than 350 collegiate teams across the nation, Dr. Dennis Cali, Department of Communication chair, announced. Much like national rankings for college sports, the debate rankings play a major role in the seeding of teams for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=51249\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Debate Team at UT Tyler Ranked Fourth in Nation<\/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-51249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 12:45:59","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\/51249","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=51249"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51553,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51249\/revisions\/51553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}