Meet Your Coaches
This coach is known for their stellar selfies.
Who is Marna?
This Engineering Senator always asks you to fill out the attendance sheet at every meeting.
Who is John Lin?
This is the quantity of AFA Speech events.
What is eleven (11)?
These are the two sides of a public debate.
What are the Affirmative and the Negation?
This person was a previous Speech and Debate Team President.
Who is Amy, Marna, Kedrick, Kate, etc.?
This coach is most likely to compete in an Interp event.
Who is Amy?
Kaitlyn is from this city.
These are the three categories of Speech events.
What are platform, interp and limited prep?
This is one of the public debate topics from this year.
What is lots of things? (go public!)
This department houses the Speech and Debate Team.
What is the Dial Center for Written and Oral Communication?
This coach recently got engaged (congrats).
Who is Josiah?
This person is obsessed with Star Wars, politics, and wants to be a lawyer after undergrad.
Who is Hunter Hurley?
This is the length of time an Extemporaneous speech is, including prep.
What is thirty-seven (37) minutes?
This type of argument in policy debate is used by the negative to propose an alternative to the affirmative's plan.
What is a counterplan?
This is one of the awards presented at the banquet.
What is the Ryan Zimmer Memorial Award, the Scott Ogden Memorial Award, the Dr. Gerald Kish Memorial Award, the Scott Ogden Memorial Pentathlon Award, or the Tom Boyer Memorial Varsity Debate Speaker Award?
This coach is most likely to hit rogue wildlife on the road.
Who is Kellie?
This person has a spider tattoo on their leg.
Who is Elena?
This is person has this speech qualified to the 2021 AFA Nationals tournament.
Who is lots of folks and lots of events(yay!)?
This person speaks first during a Parliamentary Debate.
Who is Prime Minister?
This is what FIFA stands for.
What is the Florida Intercollegiate Forensics Association?
This is Saad's middle name.
What is Y?
This person has stolen (technically) duct tape from the Speech and Debate office.
Who is Jianna?
This is the highest place someone from our team has ever placed at the national tournament.
What is fourth (4th)? (It was Alex in Impromptu!)
This is the national tournament for policy debate.
What is the Cross Examination Debate Association, or CEDA?
This is how long the team has existed.
What is forever?