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The official page of the championship Towson University Debate Team. Towon Debate competes in NDT and CEDA policy debate at the intercollegiate level.

Contact:
Michael Harrington, Director of Debate
(410) 704-4012 / [email protected]
Psychology Building, 504B

04/07/2026

What a close out to the year! Well done to our teams for competing at the final tournament of the year: thee CEDA nationals.

Congratulations to our novice teams for competing in the open division for this tournament with two of them, Radwa/Jaden & Mia/Monica, ending with 3-5 records. Congrats to MR, Mia & Monica, for clearing into the novice breakout division. They won their quarterfinals round on a 3-0 and then dropped in semifinals to our friends from GMU. Also, shoutout to Ethan for helping out with novice teams & extensions. (Np) MV for still grinding despite being online to close out their career.

Big congrats to Towson DP, Nina & Arya, for an impressive 7-1 prelim record. They cleared into eliminations as the third seed overall with a bye into the double octafinals round. They finished as double octafinalists along with Arya being the 17th speaker!

Thanks to Joe/Bing squad, Kathryn/Sam + tab, Phil, and everyone who helped with the people’s tournament! Also, to the Jayhawks for winning the tournament.

04/01/2026

Congratulations to Towson DP, Nina & Arya, for going 4-4 at Nina’s first NDT & Arya’s second. Both still in their first full year of policy debate.

Thanks to Gordon, Gary, and Rob/UoH for hosting this tournament. Congrats to Emory & Long Beach for a phenomenal final round!

Special thanks to our alum and grad coach for assisting in the success. Next up, the grand finale: CEDA Nats!
As always,

03/03/2026

Congratulations to Towson DP, Nina & Arya, who received a SRALB to the NDT. Tigers return to the NDT for our fourth consecutive year! Fun fact: these ladies started as college novices just a year ago in spring ‘25. 🔥🐯

Congrats to all the other teams as well!

03/01/2026

Beautiful weekend in West Virginia for novice nationals! We had five teams compete at the tournament, with this being the first tournament for a few! Big woohoo for our novices for persisting through last minute partner changes, drops, sickness, and first tournament scaries!

Thanks to Samantha, Kathryn, and fairmount for hosting a smooth tournament! As always,

02/08/2026

Back in action! Tigers pick back up in our first spring semester tournament at the Gotham tournament hosted by New School. This weekend we had 4 teams competing, with this being four of our students first tournament ever! Congrats to our open team, Nina & Arya, for making it to the quarterfinals of the tournament.

Big thanks to V, the new school team, and Kathryn for a great tournament in NY! As always, .

11/17/2025

The Tigers traveled down to deacs-land this weekend to close out our semester at the Shirley.

We had 3 novice teams and 1 varsity team compete. Our varsity team, DP, went 3-4 winning all their rounds the second day!

In the novice division, what’s better than having one novice team clear? ALL THREE teams clearing. MV & AK went 4-2 and LL went 3-3. Andrea was 6th speaker in the novice division! AK & LL finished as doubleoctafinalist and MV finished as octafinalist!

Shoutout to Jarod, Justin, Gary, and the wake team for hosting the biggest college debate tournament ever! See you all next semester— As always, go tigers!

11/09/2025

This weekend we took three of our novice teams up to Rochester to debate at the UoR tournament. Great job to all of our teams! Shoutout to MV, Andrea & Lauren, for going 3-2 & clearing to octas.

Thanks to Brady, DM, Jefferson, Joe, and the Rochester team for having us up in the NE!
As always,

10/13/2025

Congratulations to Towson DP, Nina & Arya, who competed at the UoH classic this weekend! They finished with a 5-1 prelim record in JV and were the TOP seed. They finished as semi-finalists after dropping on a 2-1 decision to our friends from Long Beach! Nina was 6th place speaker and Arya was TOP speaker!

Thanks to Rob & the UoH team for hosting a great tournament. Congrats to Long Beach/Southwestern for locking out the tournament!

As always,

09/28/2025

The Tigers were on the road this weekend to compete at the Bing debate tournament in NY. Congratulations to all our teams, many who are novices, who competed in their first debate tournament!

Congrats to Towson MV, Andrea & Lauren, who went 3-2 in the novice division and cleared into elimination rounds making all the way to quarterfinals (top 8). Lauren was also 9th speaker!

Congrats to Towson DC, Nina & Felix, who went 4-2 in the varsity division clearing into elimination rounds making it to the quarterfinals as well! Nina was 6th speaker!

Thanks to Joe and Bing for running a great tournament!

05/02/2025

To conclude our amazing 2025 season, our graduating seniors engaged in a public debate versus the DCJ over abolishing mandatory minimums. This was an amazing opportunity and well organized at the courthouse in Washington, DC. Shoutout to Judge Faruqui, Tori, Jackson E., all the judges and their whole team for being amazing! Special shoutout to our opponents who were AMAZING scholars.

To our TU-Debate seniors: thank you for all your hard work and willingness to participate. You all continually grow and represent TU well. We’re extremely proud of your time at TU and hope that you take your passion from debate to the real world. You all are amazing & we can’t wait to see what’s next. As always, GO TIGERS!

04/30/2025

Amazing night of gathering with loved ones to celebrate our phenomenal students last night at our first annual TU debate banquet in years! We're immensely grateful for all the effort, dedication, and hard-work our students continually put in throughout the year. Thanks to all of our family, friends, faculty, and loved ones for coming to support and celebrate. Congratulations to our:

Team MVP: Daniel Christ
Novice DOTY: Arya Persaud
Team Spirit: Nina Darden
Most Improved: Jasmin Mudiay
Senior Service: Daniel Christ, Maria Samworth, Jasmin Mudiay, Kidi Gebremedehin, and Noah Gardner.

Address

Towson, MD
21252

Telephone

+14107044012

Website

https://www.towson.edu/cofac/centers/debate.html

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