Heather Hall

Heather Hall is an Assistant Debate Coach at Liberty University.

For over 20 years, Coach Hall has developed and trained championship novice debaters who have won multiple National Championships at CEDA Nationals, JV/Novice Nationals, and ADA Nationals, including the winners of the 2019 American Debate Association National Tournament at the University of Georgia. Her novice debaters have gone on to qualify for the National Debate Tournament and earn top honors as varsity debaters.

Coach Hall was a 2016 ACC Debate Championship Guest Judge. In 2017, she chaired the American Debate Association Novice Curriculum Committee, responsible for the inaugural ADA Novice Packet. She was awarded the Frank Harrison Award for Excellence in Coaching at the US Naval Academy Debate Tournament 2011-2015 and Top Coach at JV/Novice Nationals in 2000, 2004, and 2008. In 2012, she received the John A. Jacobsohn Award for Service to the Debate Community, presented at the CEDA JV/Novice National Tournament at WVU.

Before Liberty, she coached debate at Penn State University. She was a varsity debater at Liberty University and a high school debater at Salem and Tallwood High Schools in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She holds a B.S. in English from Liberty University.