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If you ask Kansas University debate coach Scott Harris what makes a truly great debater, he’ll say intelligence, verbal skills, creativity and “an incredible work ethic.”

Elizabeth Maria Gedmark and Bradley Christopher Hall were married Saturday evening in Louisville, Ky.

Today ISU debate coach Scott Odekirk announced his campaign for the Pocatello city council 

Liberty University students and alumni squared off in a debate about the safety and security of nuclear power Friday night.

The Liberty University Debate Team is once again the No. 1 collegiate debate team in the country – no argument.

Four years after winning the two major high school debate contests as a team, Matt Fisher and Stephanie Spies united again

Sitting in the library watching Leah Salgado approach, I note a confident and attractive young woman

The University of Wyoming debate team concluded its first season under director Travis Cram 

Sweaty palms. Racing heartbeat.

The Rutgers-Newark Debate Team unofficially began during the fall semester of 2008 when then-sophomores Chris Pinho and Kevin Cenac joined forces

“The UMKC Debate Team is one of the oldest student organizations on campus,” Assistant Debate Team director Malcolm Gordon said.

In the world of debate, the name Harvard carries a lot more weight — and money — than the University of Texas at San Antonio.

University of Kansas debaters Sean Kennedy and Dylan Quigley took first place at the prestigious Franklin R. Shirley Debate Tournament.

Eight months after being told that their coach and event were being cut from Macalester debate, Mac's policy debaters are getting the green light to rejoin the team.

Last weekend, UR’s Policy Debate team had a strong showing that included both record-setting participation and a sweep of the Junior Varsity division.

The Georgetown policy debate team’s ninth-place national ranking marks a return to heights last seen in the late 1970s, with much of the program’s success owed to Richard Day (SFS ’14)

For Wake Forest’s debate team, going paperless means no longer carrying 250,000 pieces of paper tucked in 900 accordion folders to tournaments.

University of Wyoming News

October 29, 2010 — The University of Wyoming debate team took its season-opening momentum into the month of October with impressive performances for both the policy and parliamentary

My San Antonio

The University of Texas at San Antonio’s debate team is No. 1 in the nation after a weekend tournament, beating out Harvard, Dartmouth and the University of California-Berkeley.

Debaters Michael Stroud, Michael Ely, Jordan Nerison and Tia Robertson led the Roadrunners to victory in the varsity and junior varsity divisions last weekend at the national tournament in Kansas City.

Stroud also won the First Speaker award, and Stroud and Ely were voted most congenial in the tournament. UTSA debate coach Skip Eno won the Amy Fugate Leadership Award for lifetime contributions to the collegiate debate community.

It marks the first time UTSA has ranked in the top five in an elite championship-level ranking system, leading national debate powerhouses from the University of Oklahoma, Harvard, Emory and UT-Austin.

he Illinois State University Debate Team traveled to Cedar Falls, Iowa,

Baylor University's debate team - the Glenn R. Capp Debate Forum - has achieved a No. 3 national ranking based on its performance at several recent competitions.

UTSA Today

Oct. 14, 2010)--After three tournaments in the first month of the fall semester, UTSA debaters are already ranked fourth in the nation. Chris Spurlock and his partner Scott Koslow won 10th and ninth speaker awards at Gonzaga University. A third UTSA debater, Andy Montee, won the sixth-place speaker award. Both teams advanced to elimination rounds and lost, placing them fifth in the tournament.

Spurlock, Koslow, Montee and Derek Liles had no rest before debating the next weekend at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Neither team advanced to elimination rounds, however, they garnered impressive wins against teams from Emory, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest and Michigan State.

A much larger crew of debaters, Tia Robertson, Michael Tahmoressi, Michael Ely, Michael Stroud, Tyler Colwell, Jordan Nerison, Emil Calhoun, Brianna Roberts, Matt Colmenero, Jessica Mendez and brothers Andy Montee and Austin Montee, debated at Wichita State University.

Ely, Stroud, the Montees, Colwell and his partner, freshman Jordan Nerison, in her first college tournament, advanced to elimination rounds. Montee and Montee made it to finals where they lost to a University of Oklahoma team, finishing in second place.

Thus far in the 2010-2011 season, UTSA debaters have defeated teams from Whitman College, Arizona State, Oregon, UT Austin, Wyoming, George Washington, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, Georgia, Michigan State, Emory, North Texas, Missouri State, Wichita State, Kansas, Missouri - Kansas City, Emporia and Oklahoma.

Currently, UTSA leads a long and impressive list of more than 250 schools fielding debate teams: Harvard (17th), UT Austin (16th) and California - Berkeley (14th). The Roadrunners will debate next in a large nationally prominent field of competitors at Northwestern University.

Topeka Capital Junior

Three weeks into the 2010-11 debate season, the University of Kansas is ranked fifth in the nation in the season's first debate coaches poll.

The competitive, traveling debate team is back after a 16-year hiatus.

Macalester was the talk of the debate community last semester when the administration made