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Quinn Buniel was the first debater from Bakersfield, California to qualify to the Tournament of Champions

2010 Yale Invitational Semi-Finalist in Varsity Public Forum Debate (3rd Place out of 146 teams), 2nd Place Speaker.

Public Forum Debate Coach, Eagan High School

8th Speaker in National Tournament of Champions  2010

Lynne Coyne is currently the assistant coach at Ridge High School in Ridge, New Jersey. 

Participant in the first Public Forum Tournament of Champions and former Nebraska state champion (as coach and debater). Aaron Has been an instructor at the Nebraska Debate Institute for the last three years.

Ziad Al Jawadi debates for the Harker school and went undefeated in the preliminary rounds of the 2010 Tournament of Champions, the first team to do so since 2007.

He has participated in 36 tournaments, earning more than 1,000 NFL points.  In addition to his success at the TOC, he has reached the late elimination rounds of many national tournaments and finished third at the NDCA championships.

He is also fluent in Arabic and has traveled extensively throughout the Middle East.

David Childree currently coaches speech and debate at American Heritage School of Plantation and American Heritage School of Delray Beach in the Boca/Fort Lauderdale area of Florida.

James attended the National Tournament of Champions on three occasions, amassing awards each time and winning the 2006 championship. This is James' second year teaching Public Forum.

Dr. Sandra Berkowitz is the Director of Public Forum debate at The Blake School in Minnesota. Prior to directing at Blake, she was an Professor Communication at the University of Maine.

Carol Green is the Director of Public Forum Debate and the Chair of the Communication Studies Department at The Harker School in San Jose, California

Rob Baron has coached Public Forum Debate at Eagan High School for 6 years and is one of the top Public Forum Debate coaches in the state of Minnesota.  He has qualifed 8 teams to the NFL National Tournament (including the 2009 10th place finishers) and has won the Minnesota JV/Novice State Championship each of the last 4 years. His teams have made several out-round appearances in national circuit tournaments including West Des Moines Valley, The Glenbrooks and Blake. When not coaching debate he is a Rhetoric PhD Candidate at the University of Minnesota working on digital rhetoric and digital literacy

I did my undergraduate work in English at the University of Alabama and took an academic fellowship to Louisiana State University for Graduate school earning a Master’s in Education.

Iaan Reynolds has been participating in high school forensics since 8th grade, and participated in Extemporaneous Speaking as well as Public Forum Debate