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Coaches' Bios
Our classes are led by a team of exceptional candidates, each with a proven track record in the highly esteemed and fiercely competitive American high school speech and debate circuit. These coaches, who have dedicated countless hours to their craft, have excelled nationally and reached the elimination rounds at many top invitationals, such as Stephen Stewart, Jon Schamber, TOC Digital Series, Stanford Invitationals, Loyola, College Prep, Peninsula, and the Harvard Round Robin. They have repeatedly qualified for the NSDA Nationals (National Speech and Debate Association), Tournament of Champions (TOC), and CHSSA State Tournament, a testament to their skill and dedication. We are also actively hiring more coaches for our fall program.
Alan T (Online Debate)
Winner of the 2025 NSDA (National Speech & Debate Association) Public Forum National Tournament
Earned the highest number of national bids to the Tournament of Champions in the 2023–24 season (out of 7,000+ teams nationwide); 3-time TOC qualifier
7 years of experience competing in PF debate at local, state, and national levels
Champion at Milpitas HS and Alta HS national circuit tournaments
Semifinalist at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, James Logan HS, and La Costa Canyon HS tournaments
Late elimination rounds at CSU Long Beach, Presentation HS, and UNLV tournaments
Qualified for the California High School Speech Association (CHSSA) State Tournament
Specializes in judge adaptation, round strategy, cross-examination, and summary speeches
Current student at Northwestern University
Madeleine Y (Debate)
Debate Accomplishments:
- Reached elimination rounds at MLK three times in a row (2023, 2024, 2025)
- 3 time CHSSA qualifier
- 2 time NSDA qualifier
- 4th at CHSSA (2023)
- 11th at CHSSA (2024)
- 2nd at CHSSA (2025)
- 46th at NSDA (2024)
- LD captain two years in a row for Monte Vista High School (2023-2025)
- Monte Vista Speech and Debate Institute Instructor (2023, 2024, 2025)
Incoming freshman at Rice University double majoring in business and history
Aditya S (Debate)
Lincoln-Douglas Debate:
Freshman @ Georgetown University
2x National Speech and Debate Tournament qualifier (2023, 2024)
Qualified to the national Tournament of Champions (2024)
1st Place, Jasper Howl National Tournament (2024)
Top 8, Strake Jesuit National Tournament (2023)
Top 16 2x, New York City Invitational (2023, 2024)
Top 16, National Speech and Debate Season Opener
Top 16, Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament
Top 16, Grapevine Classic National Tournament
NSDA Academic All American Award; top 2% of debaters for excellence and leadership
Board member and coach for PepTalk Debate; national organization providing free debate coaching
Extensive experience coaching 70+ novices in Lincoln-Douglas debate
Rachel S (In-person - Speech and Debate)
Competed across multiple speech and debate formats - policy, parliamentary, extemp, IPDA and Model UN
Nationally ranked in high school Policy Debate
Top 10 Policy Debate Speaker in CA- Stoa Speech and Debate, 2018
Gold finalist in Policy Debate at Stoa National Invitational Tournament of Champions (NITOC) - 2018
National qualifier in extemporaneous speaking, Stoa Speech and Debate, 2017
BA in Political Science from CSU Stanislaus
Captain of CSU Stanislaus Model UN team (2023)
Studied economics as visiting undergraduate at Stanford University (2020)
Experienced in Parliamentary and Policy Debate
Experience in judging high school Lincoln Douglas tournaments
Elizabeth S (Speech and Debate) - (Summer 2024 & 2025)
Qualified to CHSSA State Tournament and NSDA Nationals 3 times each in various events (Lincoln-Douglas, Informative Speaking, and Parliamentary debate)
Have experience in Impromptu, Informative Speaking, Oratorical Interpretation, and Extemporaneous Speaking
Reached double-Octofinals (top 32) at the 2022 Tournament of Champions in LD
Reached late elimination rounds at national LD invitationals such as Loyola, College Prep, Peninsula, and the Harvard Round Robin
Have significant experience working with and mentoring students on the MHHS team in both speech and debate
Taught at 3 sessions of debate camp in the summer of 2023 for Victory Briefs Institute and The Debate Intensive
Have coached 2 full years of LD debate at all levels with various programs (DebateDrills and Immaculate Heart High School & Middle School), helping develop curriculum and advising students at national tournaments
Currently studying geophysics at UCLA
Matthew D (Debate)
Qualified and competed in the CHSSA State tournament two times in Parliamentary Debate with an undefeated record.
Undefeated record in Big Valley NSDA District Tournament National Qualifiers for two years.
Competed in NSDA Nationals two times in Policy Debate
Placed 16th in the California State Speech and Debate tournament in Parliamentary Debate (June 2018)
Placed first in the 2019 NCFL National Tournament Qualifiers, going undefeated.
Reached Octofinals at the 2019 James Logan Martin Luther King Jr Invitational in both Parliamentary Debate and Semifinals in Extemporaneous speaking.
Reached Octofinals in 2019 WolfPack Invitational in Extemporaneous speaking.
Reached Double-octofinals in LD at the Berkeley Invitational 2019.
Qualified for 48 TOC in Extemporaneous Speaking
Coached for Mountain House High School speech and debate 2019-2020, helping to develop a clear debate curriculum.
Graduated from UCR in Business Economics
Currently attending CSU East Bay studying Computer Science in the Master's Program, 2025.
Aditya S (Debate)
Lincoln-Douglas Debate:
2x National Speech and Debate Tournament qualifier (2023, 2024)
Qualified to the national Tournament of Champions (2024)
1st Place, Jasper Howl National Tournament (2024)
Top 8, Strake Jesuit National Tournament (2023)
Top 16 2x, New York City Invitational (2023, 2024)
Top 16, National Speech and Debate Season Opener
Top 16, Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament
Top 16, Grapevine Classic National Tournament
NSDA Academic All American Award; top 2% of debaters for excellence and leadership
Board member and coach for PepTalk Debate; national organization providing free debate coaching
Extensive experience coaching 70+ novices in Lincoln-Douglas debate
Tom V (Speech) Until Feb, 2025
Political Science Major, Boston College Class of 2028
Ninth place at 2024 CHSSA State Tournament, Impromptu Speaking
Competed at the 2024 Tournament of Champions, Original Oratory
Qualified at the 2023 CHSSA State Tournament, Policy Debate
Placed in the top ten competitors at every Impromptu tournament attended in the 2023-2024 competition cycle
Placed in the top ten Oratory competitors at CFL League 1, John Lewis, CFL League 2, MLK, and UC Berkeley tournaments
Speech and Debate Instructor at Saint Nicholas Catholic School — Los Altos Hills, CA. Created proposal for the weekly after-school program and taught middle schoolers basics of impromptu speaking & policy debate. Tom will be our instructor for Original Oratory and Impromptu
Manreet K (Speech) Fall 2024 & Summer 2025
Have significant experience competing in Original Oratory, Original Advocacy, and Impromptu.
Reached late elimination rounds at National Invitationals such as Berkeley in Oratory, at MLK Invitational in Oratory and Advocacy, the Claremont Wolfpack Invitational in Oratory, and Finals at Jack Howe Invitational in Oratory.
Qualified to National Individual Event Tournament of Champions and Competed in Tournament of Champions in Original Oratory in 2020 with 4 bids.
Qualified and Competed in the CHSSA State Tournament in Original Advocacy in (2019).
Have significant experience working with and mentoring students on the MHHS Speech Team for Original Oratory and Original Advocacy.
Graduated (2024) with a Dual Bachelor in Economics and Computer Science from UC Davis.
Currently conducting research in Machine Learning.