Last month, Harker won the overall sweepstakes award at a speech and debate tournament held at the University of California, Berkeley. The team is particularly proud of this award, as it reflects the combined record of all of the over 100 upper and middle School students who participated. Every good ranking or win added to the total, which reflected the students’ effort toward achieving the same goal. This tournament is the largest invitational in the country, and winning the sweepstakes is a major goal for the team. Teams at both campuses enjoyed ice cream socials to celebrate. “The coaches are very proud of how resilient the students have been during online events,” said Jenny Achten, speech and debate department chair. “We look forward to getting back to traveling in person to tournaments soon.”