On the recordJune 25, 2014
On April 1 of this year, Georgetown University seniors, Andrew Arsht--who happens to be a Utahan in my district--and Andrew Markoff won the 68th National Debate Tournament for the second time in 3 years. As sophomores and seniors, they were the national citizenship team. As juniors, they were in the final four, which means they are the only team in the history to accomplish these standards each year. There have been 286 colleges who have competed at this tournament since 1947. Only eight of those colleges have actually won more championships than these two guys by themselves. They are the only team to have won two national championships and the Copeland Award for the best yearlong performance. Arsht was also named as the top individual speaker at the tournament. I congratulate these two debaters, as well as congratulations to Jonathan Paul, who is the director of debate at Georgetown University. ____________________
