KU’s first all-woman, all-African-American debate team to compete in national tournament
Kansas University’s debate team of Jyleesa Hampton, a senior from Overland Park, and Quaram Robinson, a freshman from Round Rock, Texas, have been selected as a first-round, at-large qualifier for the National Debate Tournament, the university said in a release.
The tournament will take place at the University of Iowa, in Iowa City from April 3 to April 6, the release said. This is the 48th consecutive year a team from KU has qualified.
Hampton and Robinson’s team is KU’s first to consist of two women and two African-Americans, the release said.
Initially, the top 16 individual debate teams in the country are selected by a national committee as automatic first-round qualifiers for the tournament. Over the next two weeks 62 more teams will move on to the tournament after competing in regional qualifying tournaments.
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