Eagle Debate Team
“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.” Proverbs 25:11
Mission
EAGLE DEBATE seeks to fulfill the mission of Northwest University to train students for leadership and service. Our desire is to see debaters strive for excellence in competition, maximize their potential as critical thinkers and public communicators and to live out the values of a positive world view in their personal and academic relationships. More about Eagle Debate
News 2012
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Congratulations to Calvin Horne on his re-election as Debate Team Captain.The team competed at the US National Debate tournament in Salem, Oregon the weekend of April 13. 160 teams attended. _________________________ Horne and Kruse win Second Place at Portland State. 20 teams from five universities competed on March 31 and April 1. The team won large trophies and marked a break into final for the first time this semester. Note: the Eagle debate team has won an award at every tournament that we entered this year! Each debater has won an award! _________________________ Chinese Debaters Visit NU _________________________ Irish Charm All Chinese National Debate Team debate Americans on Ideal DatesLucky Charms: Irish National Debate Team is coming! _________________ Eagles Soar in Salem: Horne Second place Best Speaker out of 68 ____________________ Paradise Won: Horne and Bowsher win Semi Finalists Award at Pan Pacific Championship at Hawaii Pacific University on Feb. 18 – 19. _____________________________ NU Worlds Cup a Success. January 13 – 14 Six colleges and universities competed at Northwest. Max Mooney and Kyle Hamar got into the final round. The teams of Horne and Bowser, Borisov and Herms each won semi finalist awards. _________________________ November 13 — 20, 2011 Horne, Bowsher, Borisov and Kukowski attend Oxford and Cambridge University tournaments in the UK _____________________________________ Debaters Make Final Four _________________ October 2011 Max Mooney and Kyle Hamar are semi finalists at UBC in Vancouver, Canada _________________________________ Debaters Win Second Place at Prison Tournament __________________ Second Place at NU Worlds Warm up |
| April 2011 | Scholarship Application due before April 14 |
| Feb | Debaters in Paradise |
| Feb | Second in Seattle |
| Feb | Chinese National Debate Team in Kirkland |
| Jan | Harvard Wins NU Worlds Cup Jan 14 and 15 |
| Jan | Watch Harvard Defend the Social Network here at NU |
| Dec | Eagles Home from Clark College with Two Bronze Awards |
| Nov | Eagles take Third Place in Longview |
| Nov | China Open here we come! Help us Debate in China |
| Oct | Novice debaters rank 7 and 9 with speaker points at Lewis and Clark College |
| Aug | Show Debate Friday 27, 4:30 PM, Millard Hall Does the Internet dumb down? Hear about our program. |
| Aug | Join Eagle Debate Team |
| March | NU vs Bellevue College: We should Eat Cats and Dogs |
| March | Novices Win at PSU |
| February | Chinese National Debate Team vs NU |
| November 2009 | Final Four in Longview |
| Sept. 2009 | NU Debaters host Workshop and Scrimmage |
| 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 |
| June | Congratulations UCLA Law Grad Josh Brittingham — our Team Captain in 2000! |
| May 23 | 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 |
Photo Gallery
Andee and Abbie win at Linfield
Calvin and James win at Hawaii Pacific University 2012
Enjoying Shaved Ice in Paradise
Max and Josh debate Harvard University at Microsoft 2010
Secretary of State Sam Reed meets Chinese National Debate Team in Olympia 2011
Team Captain Morgan and Brandon at Nationals in Denver 2010
Chinese National Debate Team after a Debate
for the Microsoft PAC in Redmond
Brandon and Tiffany wipe out the competition in paradise. Hawaii Pacific University Pan Pacific Championship winners October 2008.
Mux and Sara face Off
Josh Brittingham graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles Law School in May, 2008. 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.
April 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.
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 hired to be a full time professor at NU. Her husband Jacob is getting his PhD in linguistics and is an adjunct professor at NU.
2005 Team Captain Jordan Goddard in final year at Harvard Law School
NU debates Oxford University before the Microsoft PAC on January 5, 2007 in Redmond.
Jed and Nathan explore a castle between debate rounds at Oxford.
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.
November, 2005.
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 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.
Josh Brittingham was also featured in the Eastside Journal.
James Stewart, Josh Brittingham, Megan Calkins and Autumn Donnell
closing out PCC 2000 with 1st and 2nd Place.
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.
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.
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.
