Public-forum debate duo has great finish 

Keeping calm under pressure, was one of the tactics a Green River High School Speech and Debate duo used during the national competition.

JD Richardson and Maggie Fischer, might have had different goals for the tournament, but they remained calm and progressed as far as they could.

For Fischer, her goal was already met before she even arrived in Dallas for the National Speech and Debate Tournament.

"My personal goal was to make it to nationals so I was pretty content with how it would have gone," Fischer explained.

Richardson, who had already been to nationals two times before in Congress,...