Greenhill Debate

First practice debate of the year!

Even during the summer, our faculty's greatness extends beyond campus! Our Director of Debate, Aaron Timmons, and Assistant Coach, Cindi Timmons, led the USA Debate Team to victory at the World Schools Debating Championships. More at: ow.ly/cppU50Prfvk

Congratulations to Aaron Kuang ’26, whose cello skills have earned him multiple first-place finishes in recent competitions! Read about Aaron's success and watch a video of his performance at: ow.ly/9N6f50PfFZv

We have lots of students honing their debate skills at institutes around the country this summer! Below are LD students/coaches at the Global Debate Symposium and policy debaters competing in the semifinals at the UT camp tournament!

Congratulations to the Greenhill School Speech and Debate team for competing in the National Speech and Debate Associations National Tournament! Highlights include one team winning third place in World Schools Debate! Read more: ow.ly/xO0050OU98C @DebateGreenhill

Congratulations to the 14 Greenhill Debate students selected as Academic All-American Awardees by the National Speech and Debate Association! Read more here: ow.ly/plGH50OG3PV @DebateGreenhill

Congrats, Nikitha!

Adam Kesselman was a semifinalist at the Tournament of Champions this year — his trophy arrived today ⭐️🏆

Congratulations to Zara Paul ’25 for being named a 2023 JDFT Children’s Congress Delegate to represent the type one diabetic community on a national level this summer. She will meet with federal lawmakers to share her T1D story in July. Read more here: ow.ly/SqVe50Of2WA

The debaters had fun celebrating our recent successes yesterday after school! ⭐️🏆🧁

Congrats to @DebateGreenhill, who recently competed at the Tournament of Champions! Adam Kesselman ’24 reached the semifinals in Lincoln Douglas Debate and was the seventh individual speaker, and Seth Lee ’24 reached the double octo finals. Read more: greenhill.org/news-detail?pk…

Four debaters start competition at the Tournament of Champions, hosted by the University of Kentucky, today! Wish them luck and stay tuned for updates!

TFA State starts today! This is the largest state tournament in the country and features over 1400 students from 173 high schools. Different from UIL where students are classified by school size, students will be competing against all schools big and small, public and private!

TFA State is THREE days away!! The debaters are hard at work!

Iliyan and Soyam lost their finals debate on a close 2-1 decision. It was a GREAT showing for the two of them! We also won some speaker awards in novice policy! 11th - Iliyan 10th - Soyam 4th - Lily 🥈- Isabel

Seth lost in the doubles. Adam won the doubles! Iliyan/Soyam won their semifinals debate! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Harvard/Pine Crest updates! Adam and Seth are both debating in the double octofinals this morning at Harvard! At Pine Crest, Ella/Neha made it to octofinals in varsity and Isabel/Lily made it to quarterfinals in novice! Iliyan/Soyam are currently debating in novice semifinals!

Pine Crest results at the end of Day 1! In Varsity: Dhiya/Rory 2-1 Ella/Neha 2-1 Madison/Gautam 1-2 In Novice: Isabel/Lily 3-0 🥶 Hasan/Yichen 1-2 Iliyan/Soyam 3-0 🥶 We have 3 more preliminary debates tomorrow!

We have 2 LDer’s competing at Harvard and 6 Policy teams competing at Pine Crest this weekend!! The Pine Crest crew started the day with donuts! 🍩