UNT Speech & Debate

A competitive speech and debate team traveling around the country taking names and winning trophies.

[UNT Speech & Debate @UNTDebate]

Congratulations to UNT JW (Zach Jones & Joseph Wofford) as their NDT/CEDA debate career came to a close at the 79th National Debate Tournament at Gonzaga. The pair picked up wins against Cornell, CSU Long Beach, and Towson. #GMG 🦅💚

[UTD Debate @CometDebate]

Mahintha was 10th speaker
Joesph was 10th Speaker (MAC)
Rahul was 7th Speaker
Ari was 6th Speaker
Adrian was 3RD SPEAKER!!!

The freshmen were the only team to defeat Texas during the tournament.

Amazing weekend see you at the NDT! And we better get a 3rd this year!

[UNT Speech & Debate @UNTDebate]

Congratulations to seniors Zachary Jones and Joseph Wofford for qualifying to the 79th National Debate Tournament in Spokane, WA. This is the pairs second time qualifying to the tournament in NDT/CEDA debate. 💚🦅 #GMG

[UTD Debate @CometDebate]

Congrats to UTD KS Mahintha and Adrian on getting to doubles of wake. KS finished 5-2 as were the 14th seed before losing to Emory.

Adrian was the 14th speaker.

Nice work KS!!!

[UNT Speech & Debate @UNTDebate]

Seniors Joseph Wofford and Zachary Jones competed at the Northwestern Season Opener this weekend in Illinois. #GMG 💚🦅

[UNT Speech & Debate @UNTDebate]

@NorthTexan @UNTSpecColl Dr. Wiliam DeMougoet is remembered by the debate and speech team with an annual tournament and a scholarship in his name. https://t.co/Vv78WgT1zh

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@NorthTexan @UNTSpecColl Gale Gooch Alexander was a professor at Casper College Wyoming and is now a successful playwright. https://t.co/fNocxGT0oK

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@NorthTexan @UNTSpecColl Jebby Phillips is now a journalist with the Australian Broadcasting Company. https://t.co/mDFRQK8Hlf

[UNT Speech & Debate @UNTDebate]

@NorthTexan @UNTSpecColl That's Michael Martin Murphy, Gale Alexander, Jebby Prindle, and Dr. William DeMougeot. Murphy is a famous musician https://t.co/6sG3zwVBez

[WKU Debate @DebateWku]

WKU placed
1st in Open Sweepstakes
2nd in LD Sweepstakes

LD
Rae - Top 4 and 7th Speaker
Chase - Top 8 and 9th Speaker
Antonina - Top 32 and 3rd Speaker
Nik - Top 32
Kole - Top 32

Congrats to graduating senior Hannah who moves on the UK College of Medicine.

TOPS!

[UNT Speech & Debate @UNTDebate]

John Sims, Octofinalist in LD debate, 13th LD speaker

Aliyanarah Fortuna, Double-octofinalist in LD debate

Nadia Escatell, Octofinalist in Poetry

Taylor Doughery, 10th place LD Speaker

Also huge shout-out to our own graduate assistant Aaron Delgado for the photos!

[UNT Speech & Debate @UNTDebate]

Congrats to the UNT Speech and Debate team on another successful showing at the National Forensics Association National Championship. Members of the team took home several awards—see below

Incredibly successful tournament for our eagles! 💚🦅 #GMG

[UNT Speech & Debate @UNTDebate]

Zachary Jones, National Runner-up in LD debate and second speaker in LD debate

Alaia Snell, Semifinalist in Extemporaneous Speaking, Quarterfinalist in Persuasive Speaking

Joseph Wofford, Octofinalist in LD debate, 5th LD speaker

[UNT Speech & Debate @UNTDebate]

UNT Debate has arrived at Central Michigan University for the NFA national championship! Good luck to our competitors! 🦅💚 #GMG

[UNT Speech & Debate @UNTDebate]

Congratulations to Zach and Joseph for their performance at the 78th National Debate Tournament. This was the first time North Texas has qualified in 8 years #GMG! 💚🦅🐐🐐

[UNT Speech & Debate @UNTDebate]

Huge shout out to both our anonymous donors and the list of donors found on our donor wall, we couldn’t do this without you! 🦅💚

To see the list of donors, follow this link and click the donor wall button: https://t.co/jquO3Lfm21

[UNT Speech & Debate @UNTDebate]

UNT Debate wants to extend a huge thank you to all of our donors! Because of your support we were able to reach our goal of 50 donors for the fundraising campaign commemorating UNT Debates winning of the NDT 75 years ago!

[UNT Speech & Debate @UNTDebate]

Congratulations to our debaters at the 6th NFA-LD Grand Prix! Debaters Joseph Wofford and John Sims broke to open elimination rounds with Joseph placing 2nd and John placing 4th. In addition John was ranked 3rd in NFA-LD All-American voting. Congrats on a great weekend! 💚🦅 #GMG

[UNT Speech & Debate @UNTDebate]

With that UNT debate has made it back home! On the last night UNT Debate attended a public debate hosted by Trinity College and learned the differences (and similarities) between debate in Ireland and the United states. Great trip! 💚🦅🇮🇪 #GMG

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Ireland Update! Congratulations to Alaia Snell, 4th in Extemp out of 96 entries, and Gianfranco Laddaga, Quarterfinalist (top 8) out of 100 IPDA debaters. IFA Dublin is a wrap. In