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Katherine Baker - 43 posts

Katherine Baker competed in speech and debate for five years and was blessed with plenty of success, including three consecutive years of qualifying for NITOC in Team-Policy and Parliamentary Debate. She currently coaches Team-Policy at her local club and runs a speech and debate summer camp with other alumni. She has been so blessed by the skills she learned while competing, and seeks to give back to the speech and debate community wherever she can.

Anna Baker - 3 posts

Anna Baker competed in speech and debate for six years before graduating. She also enjoyed competing at the national level. She loved researching cases and thinking critically on impactful topics of the day.

Zachary Beddingfield - 10 posts

Zachary has competed in NCFCA Lincoln Douglas debate for three years, including making it to finals at a national-level tournament and competing at Nationals. He is also qualified to Extemporaneous finals at his regional tournament. In his spare time, he's a runner and a golf player who does some science activities on the side. This year, Zachary is competing in his fourth season of NCFCA Lincoln Douglas debate as a high-school sophomore.

Aaron Clendenen - 2 posts

Aaron Clendenen is a NCFCA LD student with two years of experience. He has accomplished much in his short time in NCFCA, including (but not limited to), placing 7th at regionals (Region II) and receiving third place LD speaker at the Medford tournament.

Mark Csoros - 68 posts

Mark's competitive history includes top awards in policy, Lincoln-Douglas, parli, extemp, and apologetics in NCFCA and Stoa. He is currently a rising Junior at the University of Texas, dual-majoring in the Plan II Honors Program and the School of Business. Through his connections with forensics and writing for Monument, Mark earned an internship at the Texas Civil Justice League, where his research aims to increase stability and fairness in Texas' civil justice system. In his spare time, Mark plays for UT’s rugby team and serves as the Domestic Affairs Editor for the Texas Orator, UT's student-led political review.

Robert Dolan

Mr. Dolan is Director of Forensics at Lake Mary Prep, Florida. His is a former high school and college debater (Fordham Prep & Boston College) and has coached nationally ranked policy teams at Rockland High School (MA) and Public Forum teams at Lake Mary Prep.

Rachel Donka - 44 posts

Rachel Donka competed in NCFCA and Stoa for 6 years. Over the course of her competitive years, she participated in 12 different speech events and three styles of debate, ranking highly on the national level. Her NITOC victories include 1st in Lincoln-Douglas, 2nd in Parli, 3rd in Extemp, and 2nd in overall national ranking in 2016. She has also competed at the collegiate level as member as a part of the Seattle Pacific University NPDA team, and graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology and Economics in June of 2019.

Jascha Ely-Halliwill - 5 posts

Jascha has participated in speech and debate for 2 years and excelled at apologetics and Lincoln-Douglas debate. He loves to brainstorm and get involved to help people understand the impact in a debate room. With much inspiration, Joscha plans on impacting the lives around him. Jascha has been a competitor for 3 years now. Last season he was blessed with record-breaking year with LD, the most wins in a single season and the most checks as well. But beyond that, his heart is set with all forms of debate as not something to enjoy, but teach as well.

Kirstin Erickson - 14 posts

Kirstin competed in NCFCA in eight speech categories, as well as both Lincoln-Douglas and Policy debate. She ranked in the top 4 at Nationals in three speech events and advanced to debate finals at five tournaments, three of which she won. Her favorite accomplishment was receiving first place at Nationals her senior year in Impromptu. Kirstin is currently a student at Wheaton College majoring in music and enjoys running her own calligraphy business on the side.

Steven Errico - 10 posts

Steven is a former STOA kid who likes philosophy, linguistics, caffeine, speaker points, the Oxford Comma, and memes. He is also a black belt in karate and a camp counselor over the summer. He is a student at Union University double majoring in Spanish and Biblical Languages, and he is currently competing with Union’s debate team in IPDA. Steven specializes in music, puns, predicate nominatives, and sarcasm.

Jonathan Helton - 33 posts

After having a lukewarm novice year as a sophomore, Jonathan gained an affinity for debate and research. He qualified to NITOC in both his junior and senior years in TP and Parli and won several tournaments in TP. Currently, he is a sophomore at Freed-Hardeman University studying study Law and Politics. He works as a researcher for the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii and also with the John E. Talbott & Associates law firm in Henderson, TN. Jonathan believes that there is no sufficient substitute for well-researched knowledge.

Tabitha Jeub - 21 posts

Tabitha Jeub has just completed her seventh and final year as a Stoa competitor. Her biggest accolades are in dramatic interpretation, earning finalist awards in several events including Monologue and Dramatic Interp. Tabitha’s true joy is in writing. She aspires to be a writer and serves as copy editor for Monument Publishing.

Chris Jeub - 144 posts

Coach Jeub is owner and lead publisher of Monument Publishing. He has been coaching since the mid-90s as well as providing the leading source material for speakers and debaters in multiple leagues. Mr. Jeub currently coaches speech and debate at Monument Academy where he also teaches 7th grade English, and he runs a Patreon page for his most recent writing projects.

Zeke Johnson - 1 post

Zeke Johnson is entering his third year of competition in NCFCA and his sophomore year of high school. He consistently advances to out-rounds in team policy. He loves to research anything that deals with debate.

Bethany Kawalec

Bethany is passionate about helping others hone their communication skills to become effective witnesses for Christ. She has competed in Stoa for five years, blessed with competitive success in a range of events including Original Oratory, Apologetics, and Parliamentary, and Lincoln-Douglas Value debate. When she is not writing speeches or researching debate cases, she is working on her novel or playing with her German Shepherd, Arwen.

Dan Leahy

Dan Leahy participated for 3 and a half years in college, where he compete at both state and national level tournaments. For the past 10 years, Dan has coached all manner of events at the middle and high school levels. He has successfully coached students to both state and national tournaments. His teams have made it to finals in state competitions.

Benjamin Murray

Benjamin competed in Stoa team policy debate for five years. His final year he was on the team Jacobs/Murray. They won the Arkansas Diamond and ended the season 13th overall. He has done a lot of writing and has done a fair bit of coaching for younger competitors. He really loves Stoa and is excited to be involved.

Alivia Pettys

Alivia have been debating in Team Policy debate for three years, learning an in-depth knowledge of debate theory. Her partner and her were the first team in their rather new club to win an out round and even advanced to the final round, making it her second year to earn a spot at the Regional Championship. As a part of that, she did a lot of research, as well as for speeches and papers.

Paul Prentice - 8 posts

Paul Prentice fell in love with debating back in high school, discovering his love for research. He was first introduced to Policy debate as a part of Classical Conversations and made his way to competing at NITOC. Now a sophomore at Liberty University, where Paul is studying International Relations and Strategic Intelligence, his passion for research has direct his path for the future. He hopes to use his passion and skills in a career in the intelligence field, ideally in intelligence analysis, open source intelligence collection, and/or geospatial intelligence.

Rene Schiltz

René Schiltz has coached Lincoln-Douglas in Houston for four years equipping numerous debaters to reach NCFCA Nationals. A former professor of theater, René has also coached NCFCA and Stoa nationals finalists in multiple speech events. Her passion is to see students reach their highest potential and to accept that when God opens the door, hard work grounded in Christian living often leads to success.

Alisa Stringer - 22 posts

Dominique Alisa Stringer competed in speech and debate for six years. She now studies Anthropology and Museum Studies at Luther College, where she has put her forensic skills to use in presentations, class discussions, and entrepreneurial pitch competitions. During her time as a competitor, Alisa's favorite events were Mars Hill, Parliamentary, and Lincoln-Douglas Debate.

Anika Sullivan

Anika competed in NCFCA for the 2016/17 and 2017/18 seasons in team policy, placing fourth at the regionals and qualifying to nationals. She coached NCFCA debate for two years and created and ran a trans regional research ring for the 2018/19 season.

Kathryn Sumner - 11 posts

Kathryn has done four years of team-policy debate. She and her partner qualified for NITOC the last three years. Research is definitely one of her favorite things to do.

Rebecca Sumner - 13 posts

Rebecca Sumner has been debating for four years. She has qualified for team policy debate at NITOC for three years in a row. All three times, the qualification came within the first three tournaments.

Vance Trefethen - 217 posts

Coach Vance debated in National Forensic League debate while in high school from 1979-1982. In college, he judged at high school NFL tournaments in North Carolina. A homeschooling dad himself, he realized the growing potential and benefit of homeschool debate and switched over to coaching homeschoolers a couple years later. In 2001, he helped Chris Jeub with bringing The Blue Book to a more advanced level. He has been co-authoring Blue Book ever since.

Mike Wascher - 8 posts

Coach Mike Wascher is Public Forum debate coach at Lake Highland Preparatory School in Orlando, Florida. He has coached at least one PF team to the semi-finals or finals of TOC, CNATs, NSDA Nationals or NDCA Nationals every year since 2009, as well as NSDA National Champions in Public Forum Debate in 2013 and Catholic Forensic League National Champions in Public Forum Debate in 2009.

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