Iowa's 2010 Staff of Champions


All staff members are successful Lincoln-Douglas debaters and coaches. Only debaters or coaches of debaters who have been in late elimination rounds at national tournaments are invited to be on the Iowa staff.

Staff members have been in final rounds in tournaments such as the Glenbrooks, the Barkley Forum at Emory University, Stanford, Wake Forest, St. Mark's, Greenhill, the National Tournament of Champions, the National Forensics League National Speech and Debate Tournament, and the Catholic Forensic League National Tournament, and many others. 

If you want to be the best, you must learn from the best!

Cherian Koshy, Director LD Institute

National Forensics League; only LD coach to coach back-to-back TOC Champion; Former Director of Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Apple Valley High School; Corporate and political consultant; Joy of Tournaments; three-time Iowa participant; Iowa instructor for over ten years.

Amanda Bryan

Director for the Center for Debate Training and Outreach in Minneapolis.

Sam Duby

LD Debate coach at Northland Christian School in Houston.

Dan Meyers

Director of LD Debate at The Meadows School in Las Vegas.

Adam Nelson

Director of Debate at The Harker School in San Jose.

Michael Spirtos

Assistant coach Meadows School in Las Vegas.

Additional staff will added, please return to the website for new staff information.