Pope and Grady share State Championship in PF!

Pope High School and Grady High School have been dominant this year on the Public Forum circuit and they will both walk away with GFCA State Championships. 
The team of Jordon Jampol and Ryan Waye (Pope) are coached by Betty Whitlock.  The team of DJ Walker and Mike Robinson are coached by Mario Herrera, Matt Johnson, [...]


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Dulles, Grady Take Home Round Robin Titles

The first annual Knights of the Round Robin has concluded, and awards were announced at the Barkley Forum dinner, where former Congressman Bob Barr was named Georgia Speaker of the Year. It there were 16 competitors from six states, debating each other randomly in PF and in a round robin format in LD. Full results [...]


Field Report: Milton

ALPHARETTA, GA: Milton Coach Jeremy Spiegel has released all debate divisions – and we have them here!
Varsity Policy
JoJo Wei – Aditya Aphale Alpharetta High
Aditya Rudra – Ricardo Saenz Alpharetta High
Riana Ilango – Akshaya Murlidhar Alpharetta High
Dev Iyer – Neil Sethi Alpharetta High
Joe Bearden – Leah Smith Calhoun
Kate Defoor – Kenia Delgado Calhoun
Meredith Dumas – Tharuni Jayaraman Chamblee Charter High School
Matt Foretich – [...]


Knights of the Round Robin Pool Announced!

Mario Herrera wishes for me to inform everyone that the team is still taking applications for the tournament, online only. We are waiving the ballot requirement. The application is at gradyspeaks.
The staff at Grady Speech and Debate have set the pool for the inaugural Knights of the Round Robin, held in conjunction with the Barkley [...]


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Whitewater: Grady wins 3 divisions!

FAYETTEVILLE, GA: The one day part of the tournament (LD, PF and IEs) have finally ended – which is remarkable considering the computer crashed- but we all made it out alive!
In Lincoln Douglas, Starr’s Mill KR (Runyan) and Grady JW (Wofford) were named co-champions.  Starr’s Mill is coached by Sean Hickey and Grady is coached [...]


St. James: Grady Sweeps, Takes Public Forum!

We’re on the road back from St. James, and Grady, the only Georgia school at the tournament, took home the 3rd place sweepstakes trophy, behind Mountain Brook and Hattiesburg.Mike Robinson and Demarius Walker took the championship trophy in the Public Forum final round, defeating Mountain Brook on a 3-0 decision.


Warner Robins: Eleven schools split the IE All State Bids!

WARNER ROBINS, GA: Individual Events competition is finally over at Warner Robins and the top three in each division receive qualifying legs to the Richard B. Russell IE All State Championship in May.Congratulations to the eleven schools who receive the various All State bids. Lakeview Academy received the most with four bids – they [...]