Groton Area High School junior, Michaela Oleson has qualified for the National Forensic League (NFL) National Congressional Debate Contest to be held June 13-18. Students will travel to Dallas, Texas for this national event from across the country and as far away as China. Qualifiers will compete for more than $200,000 in college scholarships. Since 1925 more than 1.3 million students have found their voice in the NFL. Prominent NFL alumni include Oprah Winfrey, Ted Turner, Mark Boal, Patricia Neal, Renee Zellweger, Kelsey Grammar, Shelly Long, and Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor. Oleson is the fourth Groton Debate student to qualify for the national tournament. Previous national qualifiers from Groton include Stephanie Herseth- Sandlin, Rachel Lewis, and Travis Kiefer. Oleson earned the first qualifier spot in congresssional debate in the Senate. Thomas Friedrichson, of Aberdeen Central earned the second qualifier spot in the Senate. Schools competing in this national qualifying event included Aberdeen Central, Brookings, Groton Area, Huron, Madison, Milbank, Mitchell, and Watertown.
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