Debate Team

We have an award winning team!

Since its inception in the Spring 2011 semester, the LMC Debate Team has traveled across the state of California and the United States to represent Los Medanos College at nationally recognized intercollegiate debate tournaments.

Debate team 2019
Winning Speech and Debate Students
Winning Speech and Debate Students
Winning Speech and Debate Students
Winning Speech and Debate Students
Winning Speech and Debate Students
Winning Speech and Debate Students
Winning Speech and Debate Students
Winning Speech and Debate Students
Winning Speech and Debate Students
Winning Speech and Debate Students
Winning Speech and Debate Students
Winning Speech and Debate Students

 

Awards/Recognition:

In the past nine years, the LMC Debate Team has competed in three styles of debate: National Parliamentary Debate Association, British Parliamentary Debate Association, and International Parliamentary Debate Association.

 

Key highlights from our years of competition include:

 

  • 2020 Talk Hawk Invitational Tournament: Two Bronze awards in IPDA  (Livermore, CA)
  • 2019 Valley to Valley Tournament: Gold Award in IPDA (Pleasant Hill, CA)
  • 2019 Lancer Watson Invitational Tournament: Silver Award in IPDA (San Marcos, CA)
  • 2016 USU National Champions in BP Debate for Community Colleges (Morehouse, Atlanta, GA)
  • 2016 Penguin Invitational Champions in BP Debate (Dominican University, San Rafael, CA)
  • 2015 USU National Champions in BP Debate for Community Colleges (Claremont College, Claremont, CA)
  • 2015 USU National Champions in BP Debate for First Year Debate Teams (Claremont College, Claremont, CA)
  • 2015 USU National Champions in BP Debate for Community Colleges (UAA, Anchorage, AK)
  • 2014 Third Place NPDA Nationals in Community College debating (NAU, Flagstaff, AZ)
  • 2013 Fifth Place NPDA Nationals in Community College debating (UOP, Stockton, CA)
  • 2012 Third Place NPDA National in Community College debating (WWU, Bellingham, WA)