Highlights
CULMULATIVE AWARDS SUMMARY 2013-PRESENT
116 speaker awards, 72 team awards were won by 75 different debaters
39 National Debate Scholars (14 Summa, 12 Magna Cume Laude, 13 Cum Laude)
11 Coaching awards for NYU staff, 2 CEDA Academic All-Americans
HISTORIC TEAM BENCHMARKS
Record-setting semester elim percentage 93.5% (NYU sent 31 teams to tournaments AND 29 of them made elims): Fall 2013
Season best elim percentage 79% (We sent 52 teams to tournaments and 41 made elims)
Teams that have gone through entire tournaments undefeated
Zhane Lloyd/Kristin Raveneau (University of Texas Dallas JV Division 2017)
Tara Dalton/Erin Szczechowski (West Point Tournament Novice Division 2016)
Last Novice to Qualify for the NDT Kristine Itliong with Bobby Zhan (2015)
National Championships: CEDA [2003}
Highest Rankings: 7th in the Nation (CEDA Rankings 2017) 8th in the Nation 2017 (NDT rankings 2017)
Major Individual Team/Speaker Highlights
- 2018 CEDA National Championships 17th in the Nation (Joshua Johnwell/Zhane Lloyd)
- 2018 CEDA National Championships 18th in the Nation (Jack Booth/Alex Sherman)
- 2018 5th Place JV National Championships (Kathy Wang/Alex Sherman)
- 2018 9th Place JV National Championships (Logan Reed/Faizan Hussain)
- 2018 9th Place Novice National Championships (Paul Mapara/Kristen Gourrier)
- 2018 University of Texas-Dallas JV Division Co-Champions (Kathy Wang/Logan Reed & Josh Johnwell/Adejoke Mason)
2018 University of Texas-Dallas Tournament 5th Place-Junior Varsity Division (Kristen Gourrier/Jin Choi)
2018 University of Texas-Dallas Tournament-Top Speaker Junior Varsity Division (Josh Johnwell)
2018 University of Texas-Dallas Tournament-2nd Place Speaker, Junior Varsity Division (Adejoke Mason) 2018 University of Texas-Dallas Tournament-3rd Place Speaker, Junior Varsity Division (Jin Choi)
2018 University of Texas-Dallas Tournament-5th Place Speaker Junior Varsity Division (Kristen Gourrier) 2018 University of North Texas Tournament-Top Speaker, Junior Varsity Division (Jin Choi) - 2017 Cornell Tournament of Love Champions-Open Division (Jack Booth/Alex Sherman)
- 2017 Cornell Tournament of Love 3rd Place-Open Division (Joshua Johnwell/Zhane Lloyd)
- 2017 Cornell Tournament of Love 5th Place-Open Division (Faizan Hussain/Logan Reed)
- 2017 Cornell Tournament of Love-Top Speaker Open Division (Alex Sherman)
- 2017 Cornell Tournament of Love-2nd Place Speaker Open Division (Jack Booth)
- 2017 Cornell Tournament of Love-8th Place Speaker Open Division (Joshua Johnwell)
- 2017 Cornell Tournament of Love-10th Place Speaker Open Division (Zhane Lloyd)
- 2017 Monmouth Tournament Champions-Junior Varsity Division (Bryte Bu/Gloria Zheng)
2017 Monmouth Tournament 5th Place-Open Division (Kathy Wang/Jenny Zheng)
2017 West Point Tournament 5th Place-Novice Division (Vivian Cheng/Camilla Leal)
2017 West Point Tournament 8th Place Speaker Novice Division (Vivian Cheng) - 2017 West Point Tournament-5th Place Speaker Open Division (Alex Sherman)
2017 West Point Tournament-6th Place Speaker Open Division (Kathy Wang)
2017 West Point Tournament-2nd Place Speaker Novice Division (Camilla Leal) - 2017 2nd Place Novice National Championships (Bryte Bu/Gloria Zheng)