Indiana Debate

Congratulations to Lily Jones and Jay Duggal, your 2026 American Debate Association JV Champions! Kaz Pena and Aubrey Thomas finished third in novice! A total team effort! Hoo Hoo Hoosiers!

8 Hoosier Debaters have travelled to Emory University for the American Debate Association Championship Tournament. We are bringing home hardware! Top JV Speaker - Jones 3rd JV Speaker - Duggal 3rd Novice Speaker - Thomas Novice Front Royal Cup winners! 2x teams still in elims!

Alumni! Want to take a stroll down memory lane? Lincoln Garrett has produced a new database and tool for tracking all rounds debated and judged going back to 2003! Have fun! collegedebateresults.vercel.app/?fbclid=IwdGRl…

We are proud to announce that Maia Truemper (O'Neill) and Zander Fish (O'Neill) have qualified to the 2026 National Debate Tournament. The NDT represents the highest level of collegiate policy debate competition. See you in Houston at the NDT! #NDT2026 #IndianaDebate #GoHoosiers

32 debates many wins some losses and your Hoosiers have finished their regular season at the UT tournament! Congratulations to Aubrey on 3rd speaker and Adam on 10th! Adam and Rowland had fun riding in a Waymo AND they finished 3rd in novice! Picture includes coach Aaron!

Your Hoosiers are hosting our annual Invitational Tournament this weekend. 13 schools are competing, from Hanover to Laramie, and Denton back to Georgia. Despite the weather, IU debaters will be arguing their hearts out in Bloomington against some of our finest opponents, yet!

Hoosiers debate success after a great weekend marks the end of the Fall competitive season for us. Spring prep starts now!

As the sun sets and we head into round 4, all Hoosier teams are on the board with a win. Give us some energy as we seek to end day 1 with another W.

10 undergraduate Hoosiers have travelled east to debate against 250 peer program teams on the Wake Forest campus this weekend. The largest college policy debate tournament in a single location in over three decades.

🎉 Your Hoosier Debate Team is 3rd in the American Debate Association Overall Team Rankings! 🎉

Your Hoosiers are ranked 3rd in the American Debate Association overall rankings!

Ethos drill while debating random images? Check. Hoosier debate is going to need a bigger room!

Hoo hoo hoo hoosiers have made it to day three. Adam and Ally are debating in elimination debates this morning with the chance to win it all. Updates to come! Photo of Adam prepping for the 2AR.

Your Hoosiers are back at it this weekend! Six new novices are attending their first college tournament. Pictured here are the novices prepping with the help from more senior debaters. Wish us luck!

Your IU debaters are entering round 8 at the Owen L Coon Northwestern University season opener. Lessgo!

Hoosiers at Northwestern this weekend. Lessgo!

2/2 The [United States] should strengthen [legal protections for labor] by [at least]: - providing for [sectoral bargaining], secondary actions, or codetermination; - [restricting right to work laws] or [at-will employment]; - or providing a [job guarantee].

1/2 Should the United States increase labor right protections? The votes are in and the college policy debate community will debate labor next year. Tentative pre-topic committee resolution looks line this:

Your Hoosiers debate team finished our season with an end of year celebration of these students and their excellence and effort. From rising star novices, our outreach awards, and debater of the year, to senior send-offs, we laughed (and maybe dropped a few tears).

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