Quest Sandel and Sydney Glickson share the keys to winning congressional debate!
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Quest Sandel is the Chief Executive Officer of Ascend Speech and Debate. As a coach at John F. Kennedy and James Logan High Schools, he has coached multiple national finalists in Congressional Debate, including the 2019 NSDA Senate National Champion, the Champion of the 2020 Tournament of Champions, the 2020 NSDA Senate Runner-up, the top presiding officer of the 2020 NSDA House, as well as two other NSDA top six placements. His students across events have seen broad success at tournaments across the country, consistently making outrounds at major tournaments such as the Tournament of Champions, NSDA Nationals, NCFL Nationals, Harvard, Emory, Blake, Glenbrooks, Stanford, Arizona State, Berkeley, and CHSSA State. His coaching style depends on the idea that effective coaching is a partnership between coach and student where both are committed to the idea of a student achieving their potential both on and off the debate floor. He looks forward to helping students across the country create successful partnerships with high quality coaches. In his free time, Quest enjoys hanging out with his dog Alpine, trying and comparing lemonade at restaurants across the country, reading Stephen King novels, watching Star Wars, and attending sporting events-he’s also a championship winning fantasy football player.
Sydney is the Chief Strategy Officer of Ascend Speech and Debate. She is a sophomore and Stamps Scholar at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She graduated from Adlai E. Stevenson High School where she was captain of a congressional debate team with almost 200 students. Sydney placed 5th at the 2019 NSDA Tournament, 5th at the Harvard National Forensics Tournament, 2nd at the John Edie Holiday Debates hosted by the Blake School, and 4th at the Sunvitational. She qualified for the Tournament of Champions three times and placed 11th her junior year. Sydney also was a finalist at the Barkley Forum hosted by Emory University and won numerous local and state-level tournaments. After graduating, Sydney began coaching congressional debaters around the country. Many of her students have finaled at large competitions such as the Harvard National Forensics Tournament, The TOC, and NSDA. Other students have been semi-finalists at Emory, the Sunvitational, the Durham Cavalier Debates, the Glenbrooks Invitational, and the Yale Invitational. Sydney also coached the Ascend Summer 2020 Program. Congressional debate defined Sydney’s high school experience. She believes debate broadens students’ horizons and makes societal issues personal. To Sydney, debaters are learning the skills our world needs to solve divisive issues. As a coach, she emphasizes the skills of argumentation and persuasion in both content and rhetoric. Sydney focuses on molding her students into debaters who use their unique strengths to their advantage. At Wake Forest, Sydney is a member of the Club Equestrian Team and enjoys playing classic rock on her guitar.
Nathan Fair runs this channel. Nathan Fair is a finalist at the NSDA National Senior Open Tournament. Nathan Fair also broke to semifinals at the National Circuit and Tournament of Champions qualifying Caviler Invitational National Tournament. He has qualified for the NSDA and NCFL National Tournaments. I hope you learned something from this video.
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