This school year, Lakeville resident Alice Yi will be one of 12 high school students representing the United States in international debate competitions as part of the USA Debate Team.

The National Speech & Debate Association announced the new team last month. The Lakeville South High School senior is the only team member from Minnesota.

“It’s a huge honor. It feels like the culmination of a lot of hard work and a lot of learning,” Yi said. “I think it’s just a really great chance to sort of step away from purely academic learning and have debates and discussions that are a little more grounded in the real world.”

The team does a style of debate called World Schools Debate, where teams of three to five people debate three at a time in support of or against a motion, for example whether

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