The 2004-2005 Season

The 2004-05 debate season included many highlights for the UR Debate Union. Rochester's Director of Forensics Sam Nelson won the Brownlee Award for lifetime achievement. Senior Steve D'amico won the Michael K. Davis Award, given annually to an outstanding debater who did not compete in policy debate in high school. Two Rochester teams broke into elimination rounds at CEDA Nationals, and UR sent two teams to the National Debate Tournament (NDT) at the end of the season.


Tournament Recaps (Thanks to Debate Results and eDebate for the information on tournament results.)

Kings College
Georgia State University
SUNY Buffalo
University of Rochester
United States Military Academy
Wake Forest University
University of Massachusetts

University of North Texas/University of Texas-Dallas ("Swing")
Cornell University
West Virginia University
SUNY Binghamton
Regionals/Districts
Novice/JV Nationals
CEDA Nationals
The NDT


Graduating Seniors: (left to right) Vlad Vanyukov, Jonathan Laine, Steve D'amico, and Mike Morosi Graduating Seniors: (left to right) Ilana Kaplan-Shian, Contessa Gibson, Liz Gaskell, and Anna Czapla:

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