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Last spring the Jackson Hole High School Speech and Debate team was in Green River. It was the annual state tournament, where the team usually does pretty well.
As with any competitive endeavor, students were going through their warm-up rituals, preparing, reading notes, whatever they needed to do to be ready.
About an hour before events were supposed to start, the news came: The tournament had been canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, which was just beginning to spread to Wyoming.
âWe had gone down the night before and everything, so it was such a disappointing thing,â coach Londe Gagnon said.