Be part of a full squad competitive debate team with a legacy of over 25 years of championship policy debate. Benefit from our full-time coaching staff and travel throughout the school year. Learn everything you need to join LU Debate and compete with a winning team at LU Debate Week.
Tuition scholarships are available for eligible first-year college debaters with or without experience, and returning junior varsity and varsity debaters.
With the Debate Team, you’ll learn how to grow in graduate-level research and presentation skills that will prepare you for your future. Get trained in critical thinking and argument strategy, and gain practical communication skills.
Debate has introduced me to a world of people, cultures, and ideas that have helped shape who I am. It has shown me that learning critical thinking and complex problem-solving isn’t just found in the classroom.
Dr. Amanda Koch
There is nothing like competitive debate to encourage deep research and sharp thinking while also building empathy with other viewpoints.
Dr. Zach Gautier
My experience doing college debate at Liberty was so practical in refining the key skills that I’ve needed in my career - critical thinking, research, writing, speaking, and the ability to see both sides of an issue. It also allowed me to manage the rigors of my master’s and doctoral work.
Travel With the Debate Team
The competitive debate season spans the entire academic year, so you can expect to travel multiple times each semester. All travel expenses are covered by LU Debate.
Yesterday our Director of Debate, Michael Hall, spoke with the Honors College on “Disagreeing Well: Why Debate Matters to Your Calling, Our Culture, and the Faith.”
Through this conversation, he challenged students to think more deeply about what it means to engage differences with integrity, humility, and purpose highlighting the role debate plays not just in competition, but in shaping how we show up in our communities, our vocations, and our faith.
Go Flames! 🔥 #ludebate #goflames #libertyuniversity...
And that’s a wrap on our last tournament of the season. This weekend, we competed at the National Debate Tournament hosted by the University of Houston, qualifying two teams.
Congratulations to Liberty CL (Jayden/Emmalee) on their Octofinalist finish, dropping a very close 4–3 decision. On top of an incredible performance, Jayden earned 17th Speaker 👏🔥
Special shoutout to Liberty SS for competing at their first NDT 🙌l finishing 3–5 with impressive wins over USC, Minnesota, and West Point 💪
Proud of both teams and everything they accomplished this season ❤️
Overall, a great tournament and a great season! Go Flames!🔥 🔥...
