Debate Alumni

Speech & Debate Alumni Colleges
Speech and debate helps prepare students for college and beyond. Discover the schools our debate seniors have attended. 

2003

  • Jim Jimmerson – Cornell University
  • Erin Moore – University of Chicago
  • Scott Goldstein – Georgetown
  • Jamie Thalgott – Georgetown

2004

  • Fred Tarantino – Air Force Academy

2005

  • Emily Ferenbach – Yale
  • Jordan Kelley – Babson College
  • Christina Harris – Santa Clara University
  • John Stewart – University of Southern California
  • Amanda Liverzani – Hampshire College
  • Matt Ruggles – UNLV

2006

  • Rebecca Sommer – Duke University
  • Neha Gupta – UCLA
  • Danielle DeLee – Yale
  • Brittany Breed – University of Southern California
  • Thomas Kenny – University of Southern California
  • Nick Shook – UC Berkeley
  • Kyle Ewing – Northwestern University
  • Jazmyn Henry – University of Southern California
  • Jason Awad – University of Pennsylvania
  • Nolan Walsh – Washington St Louis University
  • Jilian Lopez – Northwestern University
  • Chenault Taylor – Northwestern University
  • Zack Martin – Case Western
  • Eric Fox – Hampshire College

2007

  • Mike Spirtos – University of Chicago
  • Jessie Lipkowitz – University of Michigan
  • Aaron Fink – University of Southern California
  • Stephen Zaiss – Loyola Marymount
  • Korbin Coskey – Loyola Marymount

2008

  • Jeremy Selesner – Northwestern University
  • Ryan Saxe – UC Berkeley
  • Bobby Kim – Swarthmore College
  • Anna Karabachev – University of San Francisco
  • Shah Ahmad – Cornell University
  • Danielle Devera – UCLA
  • Erin Walsh – Cal Berkeley
  • Nitin Gupta – University of Southern California
  • Hannah Sultan – Smith College

2009

  • Justin Blau – Washington University St Louis
  • Amanda Signorelli – Washington University St Louis
  • Adrienne Keamey – George Washington University
  • Chloe Weiss – New York University
  • Jasmine Ghuman – Loyola Marymount

2010

  • Michael Whiteside – Air Force Academy
  • Jordan LaMothe – Washington University St Louis
  • Nicole Gage – Emory University
  • Ashley Lovell – Chapman College
  • Justin Gutzwa – Pomona College
  • Dylan Lee – Ithaca College
  • Palmer Hilton – Bucknell University
  • Prakrithi Gaba – California Institute of Technology

2011

  • Jasmine Sharma – University of California, Los Angeles
  • Sharon Park – Harvard University
  • Spenser Silbey – Reed College
  • Michael Wang – American University
  • Nate Socolof – George Washington University

2012

  • Chris Wang – New York University
  • Seth Merkin – Princeton University
  • Sulaiman Ahmad – Redlands University
  • Maddy Walsh – University of Rochester
  • Jess Molasky – University of California, Los Angeles
  • Nathaniel Saxe – UNLV
  • Josh Reisman – George Washington University
  • Aaron Novick – University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Ryan Fink – UNLV
  • Jacob Jimmerson – George Washington University

2013

  • Ed Hendrickson – Carleton College
  • Nicholas Reiter – Duke University
  • Charles Adams – University of Michigan
  • Isabella Lee – Bard College at Simon’s Rock

2014

  • Aly Bailey – University of Southern California
  • Rachel Dennis – University of Arizona
  • Madison Evans – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Jasmine Ezzatian – Loyola Marymount University
  • Elisse Johnson – University of California, Berkeley
  • Madison Kelley – Wellesley College
  • Sabina Manzini – Oxford University (Britain)
  • Olivia Walsh – Melbourne University (Australia)

2015

  • Nathan DeVera – Southern Methodist University
  • Melanie Shackleford – University of Washington
  • Krista Thompson – Air Force Academy
  • William Neme-Micula – George Washington University
  • Connor Chapkis – University of Southern California
  • Sander Straus – Northeastern University
  • Ayra Sabir – University of Arizona

2016

  • Jason Hiew – Cornell University
  • Luis Sandoval – Mercyhurst College
  • Sara Kaplan – George Washington University
  • Kathy Bond – Reed College
  • Ian Ogilvie – Santa Clara University
  • Rahn Kraidman – Indiana University
  • Rummel Zafar – Northeastern University
  • Naba Qurashi – University of Southern California
  • Kayla Rowe – Wake Forest University
  • Braxton Cobb – Loyola University of New Orleans
  • Judy Fickess – Wellesley College
  • Sophie Ahmad – University of California at Los Angeles
  • Alex Lanzkowsky – University of Southern California
  • Asia Thomas – Northeastern University

2017

  • Clara Bates – Harvard
  • Asheesh Chopra – University of Southern California
  • Dani Goodman – Barnard College
  • Abdus Najmi – University of California, Los Angeles
  • Chloe Norvell – Lehigh University
  • Edward Rastgoo – George Washington University
  • Arisha Tufail – University of San Francisco

2019

  • Ian Cook – George Washington University
  • Kwabene Sarfo – George Washington University
  • Taylor Parker – University of Southern California
  • Eshaan Verma – University of Southern California
  • Sydney Ramanofsky – Southern Methodist University
  • Kayla Salehian – Emory University

2020

  • Peyton Barsel – Columbia University
  • Ilana Cohen – Vanderbilt University
  • Bentley Jimmerson – Trinity College
  • Andrew Little – University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Ava Mayo – Scripps College
  • Chloe Nguyen – Duke University
  • Elle Riggio – University of Puget Sound
  • Allison Stone – George Washington University

2021

  • Devin Howard – University of San Diego
  • Macy Litt – University of San Diego
  • Allison Steward – University of Nevada, Reno
  • Lexy Yeager – University of Virginia

2022

  • Amanda Ashman – Universita Bocconi, Milan Italy
  • Veena Kittusamy – George Washington University
  • Sophia Lopez – University of North Carolina
  • Alexanna Mouskondis – Texas Christian University
  • Nishelle Phansalkar-Michalik – Colgate University
  • Madelyn Wold – University of Denver
  • Lauren Zimmerman – Georgetown University

2023

  • Zach Badain – Emory University
  • Brinley Belding – Georgetown University
  • Amy Choi – Yale
  • Chloë Gastwirth – University of North Carolina
  • Sabrinna Ionescu – George Washington University
  • Andrew Kim – Cornell University
  • Leighton Liu – New York University
  • Oliver Song – Whitman College
  • Symphony Wang – Boston University
  • Taylor Wolfe – Samford University