Team Northern Ireland Reach Quarter-finals at WSDC 2022

Team Northern Ireland, representing the Northern Ireland Schools Speech & Debate Association (NISSDA), finished as quarter-finalists at the 2022 World Schools Debating Championship (WSDC), held online.

The 2022 team comprised Akshay Kishan Karia from Methodist College Belfast, who captained the side; Alice Coombes-Huntley from Belfast Grammar Academy; Matthew Handley from Our Lady and St Patrick's College, Knock; and Zac Weinberg from Belfast Grammar Academy.

Competing online against the best schools teams in the world, Northern Ireland advanced through the preliminary rounds and into the knockout stages, where their run ended in the quarter-finals.

In only the team's first year of existence, the result announced Northern Ireland's arrival on the world debating stage and set the standard for the campaigns that followed.

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