National Tournament History

The National Speech & Debate Tournament is largest academic competition in the world as over 6,000 middle and high school students debate current events, voice their views, and share their stories. After months of preparation, rigorous qualifying tournaments, and five days of prestigious national competition, the best of the best will be crowned champions in front of a live audience of thousands and tens of thousands more streaming the events online.

POLICY DEBATE
Year	Student(s)	Place
1996	Lindsay Harrison & Dustin Marshall	1st
1996	Dustin Marshall	Top Speaker
1998	Andrew Bradt & Caitlin Talmadge	1st
2001	Racquel Bracken & Della Sentilles	2nd
2005	Nathan Baum & Shawn Hiner-Leaman	2nd
2010	Christian Patterson & Kush Patel	2nd
2017	Samar Ahmad	Top Speaker

POETRY INTERPRETATION
Year	Student(s)	Place
2020	Joshua Timmons	1st

PROGRAM ORAL INTERPRETATION
Year	Student(s)	Place
2021	Joshua Timmons	3rd

WORLD SCHOOLS DEBATE
Year	Student(s)	Place
2020	Caroline Greenstone, Jothi Gupta, Cameron Kettles, Ashley Shan & Aimee Stachowiak	1st

LINCOLN DOUGLAS DEBATE
Year	Student(s)	Place
1997	Marc Wallenstein	1st
2016	Bennett Eckert	1st

The Tournament of Champions (ToC) is a National High School Speech & Debate Tournament held at the University of Kentucky every year in a weekend in April. Tournament of Champions is considered to be the national championship of the “National Circuit" and is one of the most prestigious and competitive American High School Speech & Debate Tournaments.

POLICY DEBATE
Year	Student(s)	Place
1996	Dustin Marshall	Top Speaker
1997	Josh Goldberg & Rashad Hussain	2nd
1998	Andrew Bradt & Caitlin Talmadge	2nd
2000	Asher Haig & Jordan Pietzsch	1st
2003	Maggie Ahn & Saad Hussain	2nd
2006	Mathew Andrews & Stephen Polley	1st
2008	Olivia Rogan & Nick Rogan	1st

PROGRAM ORAL INTERPRETATION
Year	Student(s)	Place
2021	Joshua Timmons	1st

ORAL INTERPRETATION
Year	Student(s)	Place
2021	Joshua Timmons	1st

LINCOLN DOUGLAS DEBATE
Year	Student(s)	Place
2005	David Wolfish	1st
2005	David Wolfish	Top Speaker
2007	David McGough	2nd
2013	Rebecca Kuang	1st
2018	Brian Zhou	1st

The National Debate Coaches Association holds its annual national championships each April.

POLICY DEBATE
Year	Student(s)	Place
2012	Lyall Stuart & Azhar Unwala (Baker Award for Season-Long Excellence)	2nd
2018	Chris Eckert	Top Speaker
2019	Samar Ahmad & Chris Eckert	2nd

WORLD SCHOOLS DEBATE
Year	Student(s)	Place
2021	Caroline Greenstone, Cameron Kettles. Ashley Shan & Aimee Stachowiak	1st
2021	Ashton Higgins	Top Speaker
2022	Ashton Higgins, Ashley Shan, and Aimee Stachowiak	1st

LINCOLN DOUGLAS DEBATE
Year	Student(s)	Place
2007	David McGough	2nd
2007	David McGough	Top Speaker
2013	Rebecca Kuang (Dukes & Bailey Award for Season-Long Excellence)	1st
2013	Rebecca Kuang	Top Speaker
2016	Bennett Eckert (Dukes & Bailey Award for Season-Long Excellence)	1st
2017	Shruthi Krishnan	1st
2017	Shruthi Krishnan	Top Speaker
2018	Shruthi Krishnan	1st
2018	Shruthi Krishnan	Top Speaker
2019	Anna Myers (Dukes & Bailey Award for Season-Long Excellence)

NATIONAL PUBLIC POLICY FORUM
Year	Student(s)	Place
2005	Nathan Baum, Shawn Hiner-Leaman, Stephen Polley, Sam Shore & Jessica Stolbach	1st