Michael Hall

Michael Hall is the Director of Debate at Liberty University.

Under Coach Hall’s leadership, Liberty University Debate has won more than 30 First Place National Championship Rankings. His teams consistently win tournaments in all three divisions of debate. Under his direction, Liberty University became one of only seven schools to have qualified at least one team to elimination rounds seven times out of the last eight years at the National Debate Tournament, debate’s oldest and most prestigious tournament, in 2019. This achievement by Liberty Debate is only matched by Emory University, Georgetown University, Harvard University, the University of Michigan, Michigan State, and Northwestern University.

Hall has served as the President, Vice President, and Secretary of the American Debate Association. In 2016, he was an ACC Debate Championship Guest Judge. He is a continuing member of the Julia Burke Foundation Award Committee and serves on the board for Campus Outreach Virginia. He has taught at the University of Michigan Classic, Arizona State University Debate Institute, and the Liberty Debate Institute.

Prior to coming to Liberty in 1998, Coach Hall was the Director of Debate at Penn State University. He was a varsity debater at Liberty University, where he earned his BS in Communication Studies.