LD at the UTNIF
The UTNIF Lincoln-Douglas workshop is open to students of all skill levels. The purpose of the workshop is to prepare students to compete in regional LD competition. The workshop will focus on developing fundamentals and building a repertoire of arguments that will last through topic rotations.
The 2025 LD Curriculum Director is Temitope Ogundare. Temitope competed for 8 years at Newark Science and Rutgers-Newark across varying formats. She’s been coaching LD and policy for several years now and loves being an educator. While Temitope was competitive during her career, her proudest accomplishments are the success of her students both in their championing of tournaments and their intellectual growth! She loves teaching critical and policy based strategies with her top 3 2NRS being the K, T, DA and believes that more debaters should be willing to engage both sides of the library. She loves the practice of research and is excited to have discussions on all the ins and out of debates in both contents and forms. Temitope served as the UTNIF Curriculum Director in 2024.
Adam Lipton has been involved with debate since 2008. Adam currently coaches Lincoln Douglas debate at the Harker School. He competed at Winston Churchill high school (San Antonio, TX) ending a decade long drought for TOC appearances in policy debate. He has coached multiple teams to late elims of every major high school or college tournament. His high school teams have won multiple state championships both in Oklahoma as well as both TFA and UIL championships in Texas. He has coached multiple first round at large bid teams to the NDT as well as a 5th place Copeland ranking team, in addition to a CEDA national championship winning team. Adam has attended and worked at the UTNIF several times and is happy to be back!