Anderson Speech & Debate is so proud to welcome our new Assistant Head Coach, El Contreras! Coach Contreras is a San Marcos High School debate alum and 2021 graduate of the University of Texas, and has been a member of the Austin coaching & judging community for 5 years! STOKED

Congrats to our Trojan football team for obliterating McCallum in the Taco Shack bowl last night! Varsity debate kicks off this weekend at Foster HS - we'll have updates tomorrow!

Our varsity team is having so much fun this weekend during the season opener at Foster! Everyone finished prelims with a winning record, and Ilan & Ben have broken to quarterfinals in PF!

Ilan and Ben advance to semis at Foster!

Ilan and Ben start the season off with a bang with a tournament win at Foster!

Baden wins Congress at Hendrickson! Gabi is 7th, Henry is 9th, and Emmy is 10th!

Back to competition after a successful Trojan Classic, and we have our first results from McNeil: Gabi Avramova, Emmy Ward, Baden Russell, and Henry Dieringer break to finals in Congress!

Baden, Emmy, Kendall Meachum, and Ben Hoffman break in DX! Parker Benko and Aiden Nelson finish 5th in NPF!

Sanayah Panicker to semis in OO! Bryn Oliver to finals in HI!

We're back in the online debate world today for the Melissa tournament, and results are coming in! Gracey Hamilton to semis in Original Oratory! Maiya Olsen and Kelsey Lind to semis in Informative Speaking!

Lucy Laves breaks to semifinals in Poetry at Melissa!!!

Semifinalists in Congress at Melissa: Emmy Ward, Henry Dieringer, George Tisdale!!!

Speech finalists at Melissa: Lucky Cantu and Lily Steinhauser in Duo Interp, Kelsey Lind and Maiya Olsen in Info, Gracie Hamilton in OO!!!

Kelsey wins Info!!!!!

Lucky and Lily place 3rd in Duo, Gracey Hamilton is 4th in OO, Maiya Olsen is 6th in Info, and Nick & Mackenzie are 6th in Duo!

Anika Sharma is undefeated and breaks to octafinals in VLD at Melissa! Lucy Laves and Mia Vaisman break to quarters in NPF!

Amelie Kentor and Mia Vaisman break to semifinals in Prose at Melissa!

George Tisdale, Henry Dieringer, and Nick Long break to semis in Domestic Extemp! It's Nick's first varsity tournament!

Congratulations to our sophomore superstar Lucky Cantu for winning Outstanding Young Performer of the Year for 2022 at the Iden Payne Austin Theater Awards!!!!