The teams of Anna Czapla/Ilana Kaplan-Shain and Steve D'amico/Buddy Khan represented Rochester for the annual Shirley Classic and Wake Forest University. This very large national tournament included teams from top-notch debate programs at schools such as Harvard, Dartmouth, Northwestern, Cal Berkely, Emory, and Michigan State.
While the UR teams delivered a respectable performance in rounds, the squad's real victory came when D'amico took home the championship in the Shirley poker tournament.