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, [...]


Southern Peach: Lincoln, Warner Robins, Carrollton qualify for Nats!

We finished around 12:30 am last night and after seven rounds of debating, Lincoln County, Carrollton and Warner Robins qualified a team in policy to nationals.
Special congralations to Abigail Minor from Lincoln who qualified to NFL Nationals for the 4th time – and became the first person since Lee County’s Ashley Street to do this [...]


Field Report: Milton

Let’s give this a second try – the weather looks like it may be chilly – but no snow. With that being said, Jeremy Spiegel has sent me the team lists for this weekend’s tournament.
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JoJo Wei – Aditya Aphale Alpharetta High
Aditya Rudra – Ricardo Saenz Alpharetta High
Riana Ilango – Akshaya Murlidhar Alpharetta High
Dev Iyer – Neil Sethi Alpharetta [...]


Field Report: Milton

ALPHARETTA, GA: Milton Coach Jeremy Spiegel has released all debate divisions – and we have them here!
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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 – [...]


Lincoln: SE Bulloch wins LD and SW Dekalb wins PF!

LINCOLTON, GA: The following are the LD and PF results:
In LD, Grady Round Robin participant Sam Strozzo (SE Bulloch) was the only unbeaten team! He’s coached by Phillip Oliver – and he also kept SE Bulloch’s streak of being one of 2 schools participating in every LCHS tournament.
In PF, SW Dekalb was the only unbeaten [...]


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 [...]


Cairo: Lassiter wins PF and 3 IEs; SE Bulloch wins LD

CAIRO, GA:  I just received the results packet from an assistant coach and glad to report the following:
In Lincoln Douglas, Sam Strozzo from Southeast Bulloch won in the “round robin.”  He is coached by Phillip Oliver.
In Public Forum, Lassiter BT (Berke/Tull) went undefeated and won the tournament.  They are coached by David Childree.
In Extemporaneous Speaking, [...]