What Role Does The Coaching Staff Play In Preparing Students For Competition?
Together, the coaching staff seeks to accomplish four principle objectives in preparing students for competition. First, we help guide, organize, and prepare argument, strategy, and research priorities for the topic. Together, we bring years of high level debate experience to bear to help the group make decisions about these priorities. Second, we assist students with research and argument construction with an eye to turning out high quality files on the national topic. Third, we help students improve their in-round debating skills: persuasion, technical ability, strategic decision-making, and the like. Finally, we travel to tournaments with students and help them connect their prepared strategies to the arguments employed by our competitors. In this capacity, we help students make strategic adjustments based upon development of our competitor’s argument portfolio. Are Students Assigned To One Particular Coach, Or Do They Have Access To The Entire Coaching Staff. Both. Students are enc
