Kansas Debate

Congratulations to KU Debate's Dr. Brett Bricker on receiving this year's American Debate Association Excellence in Coaching Award and the Judge of the Year Award! S/O @emorydebate for the photo 📸

Rose and Luna finish as American Debate Association semifinalists!! This is KU's first ADA semifinals appearance since 2020. #RockChalk 💙❤️🔥

Rose Larson and Luna Schultz are debating this morning in ADA octofinals! 🔥 Ain/Ulven (5-1), Brown/Walawender (4-2), and Owings/Willingham (5-1) also advanced to elimination debates, bowing out in last night's double octofinals. #RockChalk 💙❤️

Two prelims left at ADA Nationals and all Jayhawks have notched a win! AU: 3-1 BP: 2-2 BS: 1-3 BW: 3-1 CT: 2-2 HM: 1-3 LL: 1-3 LS: 3-1 LV: 1-3 MS: 1-3 OW: 3-1 #RockChalk 💙❤️

11 KU teams are competing at American Debate Association Nationals this weekend! Ain/Ulven Bauman/Persson Blaser/Suleman Brown/Walawender Chaudhry/Terreros Hernandez/Martinez LaPoint/Levin Larson/Schultz Lemaster/Verma McConnell/Smith Owings/Willingham #RockChalk 💙❤️

Congratulations to Brooklynn Hato and AJ Persinger on earning a Second Round At Large Bid to the 2026 National Debate Tournament! They are one of only six third teams selected to compete at the NDT. 🔥 #RockChalk 💙❤️🎉

Chase/Gilly and Payten/Lucy are Mid-America Champions! 🔥🏆 BF walked over LiPe in quarters and won their sems debate, while LaPa won both quarters and sems to close out MAC finals! They also snagged the top three speaker awards! 🥉Gilly Falin 🥈Lucy Pace 🥇Chase Blaser

Every KU team debating at the MAC clears to elimination rounds! Blaser/Falin (5-1, 2nd seed), LaPoint/Pace (4-2, 5th seed), and Linde/Persson (3-3, 7th seed) all advance to tomorrow morning's quarterfinals. #RockChalk 💙❤️🔥

3 KU teams qualify for the Elimination rounds of our last BP regular season tournament. Alex Brake/Stevie Silverman (Open) Mason Renner/Michael Redlich (Open) Sofia Bullard/Alba Wilson-Axpe (Honors)

The Jayhawks are kicking off the post-season at the Mid-America Championship! All three teams are currently 2-1! Chase Blaser/Gilly Falin Payten LaPoint/Lucy Pace Cameron Linde/Sigmund Persson #RockChalk 💙❤️🔥

Congratulations to the KU teams of Rose Larson/Luna Schultz and Owen Owings/Zach Willingham on earning First Round At Large Bids to this year’s National Debate Tournament! Receiving a FRALB means they have been ranked among the top 16 teams in the country! 🔥 #RockChalk 💙❤️

Mason Renner & Michael Redlich reached the semifinals of the first YODL British Parliamentary Debate Tournament of the Spring Semester. They were the 3rd seed and Michael was the 4th speaker. An excellent performance.

The Jayhawks are debating at 3 tournaments this weekend! 🔥 LS is competing against the other top teams in the country at the Dartmouth Round Robin! HP and OW are debating at the Brick City Round Robin hosted by Rutgers Newark. BP is competing online at YODL #3. #RockChalk 💙❤️

After debating the last two days maverick, Kate’Lynn Shaw is the champion of the second half of this year’s Sunflower Swing!! 🏆 Kate’Lynn avenged BM’s semifinals loss while also picking up the 4th speaker award! 🔥 #RockChalk 💙❤️

Lots of wins and walkovers today at the second half of the Swing! BM walked over LW in the octos, while BP and Kate'Lynn both debated and won. Kate'Lynn then walked over BP in quarters while BM defeated UTD. Both BM and Kate'Lynn are now debating in semifinals! #RockChalk 💙❤️

Four KU teams advance to elimination rounds at the KSU half of the Sunflower Swing! Kate’Lynn Shaw (now maverick due to illness; 5-1), Blaser/McConnell (5-1), Bauman/Persson (4-2), and Linde/Weber (3-3) all clear to this morning’s octos debates! 🔥 #RockChalk 💙❤️

One more prelim to go at the second half of the Sunflower Swing! 🌻 Bauman/Persson: 3-2 Blaser/McConnell: 4-1 Fordyce/Hefty: 2-3 Foust/Shaw: 4-1 Lemaster/Verma: 1-4 Linde/Weber: 2-3 #RockChalk 💙❤️🔥

Six KU teams are currently in Manhattan competing at the second half of the Sunflower Swing! Bauman/Persson: 2-1 Blaser/McConnell: 3-0 🔥 Fordyce/Hefty: 1-2 Foust/Shaw: 2-1 Lemaster/Verma: 1-2 Linde/Weber: 1-2 #RockChalk 💙❤️

Owen and Zach finish their Georgetown run in semifinals, losing a close debate to Georgetown. Congratulations to the boys, who beat both the 13 and 5 seeds on their road to semis! 🔥 #RockChalk 💙❤️

AU, LS, and MS all finish as quarterfinalists at Georgetown! AU loses a 3-0 to Georgetown, LS on a 2-1 to Michigan, and MS gets walked over by OW. Rose, Luna, and John go out as three of the top four speakers though! John - 4th Luna - 🥉 Rose - 🥇 TOP SPEAKER 🥇 #RockChalk 🔥