EAGLE DEBATE TEAM

News 2010

March	Novices Win at PSU
March	Winning at Pi Kappa Delta in Mt Hood
February	Chinese National Debate Team vs NU
January	NU Hosts Tournament -- see video of final rounds
November 2009	Third in Oregon after Returning from Oxford, Cambridge
November 2009	Final Four in Longview
October 2009	Debaters Seventh in Hawaii
Sept. 2009	NU Debaters host Workshop and Scrimmage
May 2009	Debate Year in Review: Celebrating our Success and Memories
March 2009	Debate Scholarship Application
February 14	Sweet: Debaters Reach Final Four at OSU
October	Paradise Won: Debaters Second Place in Hawaii
September	Report on Debate Workshop
September	NU vs SU Show debate a Success
September	Worlds Workshop and Scrimmage
June	Congratulations UCLA Law Grad Josh Brittingham -- our Team Captain in 2000!
May 23	Listen to Debating Society President Taylor Jones and Debate Team Captain Nigel Reed present their senior chapel speeches. Taylor and Nigel were honored as top students in the College of Arts and Sciences and invited to speak to the Northwest community.
April 10, 2008	Irish Charm all
March, 2008	Debaters Third Place at Tournament of the Great West
February, 2008	Irish National Debate Team in Kirkland, April 7
February 10	Nigel and Morgan miss second place at OSU by three speaker points.
November, 2007	Debaters in Paradise
October 8	Report on Debate Scrimmage
Sept. 9	UBC vs PSU with NU
Sept. 4	NU Debate Scrimmage Sept 29
June 07	Two Nations Debate in Sept
May 07	Join NU Eagle Debate
April 07	Hear Jed's Speech in Chapel
April 07	Eagle Debate Weekend Brings Season to Close: James Stewart Outstanding Alum
April 07	Nigel Reed Elected Captain
April 2007	Scholarship Application
Mar. 07	Debaters make Final Four in Portland
Feb. 07	Debaters Win at Willamette
Looking ahead	Eagle Debate Spring Intellectual Extravaganza April 13 and 14
Jan. 2007	NU vs. Oxford Show Debate a Smash
Jan. 2007	World Championships Report
Dec '06	Semi Finalist at PSU
Nov 22	Former Captain Jordan Editor for Harvard Law Review
Nov 22	Report on UK Debate Tour More Photos
Nov 2006	The British are Coming! Oxford vs. Northwest Jan. 4
Nov. 10	Oxford -- Cambridge Travel Blog
Nov 2006	Double the Pleasure: Debater Wins Second Year in a Row
Oct 06	Eagles to Face Oxford, Cambridge
Sept 22 and 23	Friday Feminism Debate Saturday World's Workshop

News Archives

Photo Gallery

Brandon and Tiffany wipe out the competition in paradise. Hawaii Pacific University Pan Pacific Championship winners October 2008. Report.

Congratulations Josh Brittingham for graduating from the University of California, Los Angeles Law School in May, 2008. Josh serves as Debate Alumni President and was team captain in 2000.Congrats UCLA Law Grad Josh!
See the Brittingham family album here

Debate partners Shelley and Shauna at end of year Debate Luau.
The novices won a debate excellence medal at the
Tournament of the Great West in March, 2008.

On April 6 an 7, 2008, Northwest hosted the Irish National Debate team, shown here atop the Space Needle. We debated the Irish at Microsoft, Kirkland City Hall and on campus. Report here.

Pan Pacific Tournament in Hawaii fall 2007

Autumn Donnell Witt (graduated 2001) earned her Masters Degree at the University of Arizona in May, 2007. She was recently accepted into a PhD program for teaching English as a Second Language. Her husband Jacob -- team captain in 1999 -- completed his Master Degree in Communication from the University of Northern Iowa and is considering a PhD in the future.

2005 Team Captain Jordan Goddard in final year at Harvard Law School

Nathan Chambers (speaking) and Kevin Botterbusch debate Oxford University before the Microsoft PAC on January 5, 2007 in Redmond.

Mark, Taylor and Kevin prepare to take on Yale, Harvard and Oxford
at the Cambridge University Debate tournament November 2006.
See Report on the UK Debate Tour. More photos

Jed and Nathan explore a castle between debate rounds at Oxford. More

Gideon Copple Presents Address for May 2006 Commencement.
Gideon is the fifth Eagle Debater chosen for this honor. He is now a Junior Staffer for the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City. Read or listen to his speech.

Kevin, Kortney and Taylor explore Prague Castle.
Report on IFA Tournament in Czech Republic

November, 2005. Prof. Gillespie joins winning debaters basking is success.
Front: Taylor Jones, Kortney Thoma, Kevin Botterbusch.
Back: Gideon Copple and Nathan Chambers.

Evan Muxen and Team Captain Sara Boyd
in September 2004 chapel debate before student body on the presidential election. Sara is now a pastor in Walla Walla and Evan is a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army

Hawaii Pacific University, November 2004.
Sea Warrior Debate Tournament Contestants and their coaches.
Jed Nelsen and Gideon Coople far right.

Christina Reasner, Debating Society President for 2004, gave the student address at the 68th Commencement for Northwest College on May 8, 2004.
Christina was one of 25 students in the nation, and the only one from a non-Ivy League school,
selected for the Emerging Leaders program hosted by Oxford University.
She was also a finalist for Miss America in September 2004.

Northwest debaters sweep at Seattle University in March 2004, winning 25 awards -- including the institutional Debate Superior Award --
and closing out novice division.

Casey DiGennaro and Jonathan King (from right) debate Seattle University
on regional transportation in the Redmond City Council Chambers on February 17, 2004. The debate was broadcasted on RCTV cable television Redmond for a potential audience of 15,000 homes.
Since then the team has appeared on KGOV Kirkland for two public debates. Watch Eagle debaters now.

U.S. Versus Ireland Show Debate
Chandra Porter and Jon King faced the Irish National Debate team
in front of a large audience in the Chapel on April 2, 2003.
Troy Henley also debated.
See the King County Journal for details.

Jon King and Troy Henley win Gold
at the Great Alaska Speakout, September 2002,
which sought to bring together the top ten teams in the nation.
Jon went on to rank as the 15th best speaker in the nation
out of 630 students who attended the National Championship in 2004.

Former Debate Team Captain Megan Brinkman speaks at Commencement
in May, 2002. Her former partner, Autumn Donnell-Witt, was selected
for this honor in 2001 and former Captain Josh Brittingham spoke in 2000.

Read this article in the Seattle Times.

Autumn Donnell & Megan Calkins challenged the top team
from the University of British Columbia to a public debate.

Former Debate Team Captain Joshua Brittingham was selected
to speak at the NC commencement ceremony May 6th, 2000.
He spoke entirely from memory, a first for a student speaker at graduation.
Josh is a graduate of the UCLA Law School and serves as our Debate Alumni President.

brit.jpg (9235 bytes)

Josh Brittingham was also featured in the Eastside Journal.

pcc01.jpg (7008 bytes) pcc02.jpg (10173 bytes)

James Stewart, Josh Brittingham, Megan Calkins and Autumn Donnell
closing out PCC 2000 with 1st and 2nd Place.
seattimes.jpg (26489 bytes)
James Stewart is one of two debaters in the nation
selected for the US Debate Team tour of Europe. He now serves as Debate Coach at Bethany University.

anchnews.jpg (21746 bytes)

Coach Gillespie holds the first place award for a debate
hosted by Willamette University, 1999. Jacob Witt (left) and
Josh Brittingham (right) won the championship
competing against fifty-three teams.

Autumn Donnell and Megan Calkins at the National Championships
in Omaha, Nebraska, March 2000.

pentec.jpg (29164 bytes)
James Stewart is only American to reach final of public speaking
at the World Universities Debating Championships in 1998.
James is now a speech professor and coach at Bethany College.

dontclip.jpg (28956 bytes)

The Eagle Debate Team is Sponsored by the
The Heathman Hotel in Kirkland

Back to Gillespie