NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | CEDA Debate

Highlights

CULMULATIVE DEBATER AWARDS SUMMARY LAST FIVE YEARS

102 speaker awards, 54 team awards were won by 68 different debaters

32 National Debate Scholars (8 Summa, 9 Magna Cume Laude, 15 Cum Laude)

COACHING AWARDS

Over 15 Awards & Recognitions for Coaching Excellence (2 Coach of the Year, 4 NDT Qualifications, 3 Critics of the Year, 2 CEDA All-Americans, 3 MVPs, 4 Community Service Awards)

HISTORIC TEAM BENCHMARKS

Semester best elim percentage: 93.5% (NYU sent 31 teams to tournaments AND 29 of them made elims): Fall 2013

Season best elim percentage: 79% (NYU sent 52 teams to tournaments and 41 made elims): 2013-2014 season

Teams that have gone through entire tournaments undefeated:

Adejoke Mason/Kalina Pierga (Rutgers University Open Division 2019)

Zhane Lloyd/Kristin Raveneau (University of Texas Dallas JV Division 2017)

Tara Dalton/Erin Szczechowski (West Point Tournament Novice Division 2016)

Ricky Garner/Nate Gorelick (12-0; District 8 NDT Qualifiers 2003)

Last Team to Qualify for the NDT: Jack Booth/Alex Sherman (2020) Back-to-back

National Championships: CEDA- Ricky Garner & Nate Gorelick (2003) JV- Alex Sherman & Kathy Wang (2019)

Highest Rankings: 7th in the Nation (CEDA Rankings 2017), 8th in the Nation (NDT rankings 2017) 3rd in the Nation [CEDA Novice Sweepstakes]

Closeout History:

2019 - Rutgers - Open Division -at semis: Adejoke Mason/Kalina Pierga, Gloria Zheng/Jenny Zheng, Alan Liu/Faizan Hussain & Brandon Lu/Ethan Rosen

2018 - Univ of Texas-Dallas - JV Division - Kathy Wang/Logan Reed & Josh Johnwell/Adejoke Mason

2016 - Univ of Texas-Dallas - JV Division - Erin M Szczechowski/Tara Dalton & Zhane Lloyd/Kristin Raveneau

2012 - Univ of Rochester - Open Division - John Dellamore/Julia Calwell & Aziz Ali/Nathan Grau

2003 - Columbia Univ. - Open Division- Ricky Garner/Nate Gorelick, Kristen Feeley/Jen Schramm

Major Individual Team/Speaker Highlights

2021 Indiana CHAMPION - JV Division (Ivan Ziabkin/Ethan Rosen)
2021 Southwestern College SEMIFINALISTS - Open Division (Sai Karavadi/Sarika Doppalapudi)
2020 West Point CHAMPION - Open Division (Eugene Toth/Alex Sherman)
2020 West Point CHAMPION - JV Division (Isha Berde/Lauren Li)
2020 West Point - 1st Place Speaker, Open Division (Alex Sherman)
2020 West Point - 2nd Place Speaker, Open Division (Eugene Toth)
2020 West Point - 3rd Place Speaker, Open Division (Maggie Pierce)
2020 West Point - 4th Place Speaker, Open Division (Faizan Hussain)
2020 University of Wyoming SEMIFINALISTS - Open Division (Maggie Pierce/Faizan Hussain)
2020 University of Wyoming SEMIFINALISTS - JV Division (Alejandro Scott/Sarika Doppalapudi)
2020 University of Wyoming - 1st Place Speaker - Novice Division (Gabe Wise)
2020 CSU-Long Beach - 1st Place Speaker - JV Division (Siyu Sun)
2020 CSU-Long Beach 2nd Place - JV Division (Siyu Sun/Ivan Ziaban)
2020 CSU-Long Beach 2nd Place - Novice Division (Dhruv Mittur/Ishar Varma)
2020 Binghamton SEMIFINALISTS - Open Division (Maggie Pierce/Faizan Hussain)
2020 Binghamton FINALISTS - JV Division (Ethan Rosen/Ivan Ziabkin)
2020 NDT Qualifiers [New School] -Jackson Booth/Alex Sherman
2020 Georgetown University 2nd Place - Novice Division (Joy Kim/Warrington Webb)
2019 JV/Novice Nationals - CHAMPION - JV Division (Alex Sherman/Kathy Wang)
2019 JV/Novice Nationals - 5th in the Nation - JV Division (Michelle Li/Pacy Yan)
2019 Rutgers University CHAMPION - Open Division (Adejoke Mason/Kalina Pierga)
2019 Rutgers University 2nd Place - Open Division (Gloria Zheng/Duo "Jenny" Zheng)
2019 Rutgers University 3rd place - Open Division (Faizan Hussain/Alan Liu)
2019 Rutgers University 4th place - Open Division (Ethan Rosen/Brandon Lu)
2019 Rutgers University 3rd Place - Novice Division (Isha Berde/Jing "Lauren" Li )
2019 Rutgers University 5th Place - Novice Division (Iko Agada/Adelle Fernando)
2019 Rutgers University - 1st Place Speaker, Open Division (Adejoke Mason)
2019 Rutgers University - 2nd Place Speaker, Open Division (Kalina Pierga)
2019 West Point Tournament CHAMPION - Novice Division (Alejandro Scott/James Peng)
2019 University of Rochester - CHAMPION - Open Division (Sai Karavadi/Josh Johnwell)
2019 University of Rochester - 1st Place Speaker, Novice Division (Jing "Lauren" Li)
2019 University of Rochester - 3rd Place Speaker, Novice Division (Isha Berde)
2019 JV/Novice Nationals - CHAMPION - JV Division (Alex Sherman/Kathy Wang)
2018 West Point Debate Tournament - CHAMPION - Open Division (Jack Booth/Alex Sherman)
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 Novice National Championships - 9th in the Nation (Paul Mapara/Kristen Gourier)
2018 University of Texas-Dallas - JV Division - CO-CHAMPIONS (Wang/Reed & Johnwell/Mason)
2018 University of Texas-Dallas Tournament - 5th Place - Junior Varsity Division (Kristen Gourrier/Jin Choi)
2018 Univ of Texas-Dallas Tournament - 1st Place Speaker - JV Division (Josh Johnwell)
2018 Univ of Texas-Dallas Tournament - 2nd Place Speaker - Junior Varsity Division (Adejoke Mason)
2018 University of North Texas Tournament-1st Place Speaker, JV Division (Jin Choi)
2017 Monmouth University CHAMPION JV Division (Bryte Bu/Gloria Zheng)
2017 Cornell University CHAMPION Open Division Jack Booth/Alex Sherman
2017 Cornell Tournament of Love - 1st Speaker - Open Division (Alex Sherman)
2017 Cornell Tournament of Love - 2nd Place Speaker - Open Division (Jack Booth)
2017 West Point Tournament - 2nd Place Speaker - Novice Division (Camilla Leal)
2017 Novice National Championships - 2nd in the Nation - Novice Division (Bryte Bu/Gloria Zheng)