We are happy to introduce you to this years national team coaches:
WSDC National Team:
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Konstantin Krüger – Head Coach Law student in Heidelberg, Germany |
Matija Pusnik – Assistant Coach International Relations student in Ljubljana, Slovenia |
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| After having been team manager in 2017 and coach in 2018, Konstantin will return as head coach of Team Germany 2019 this year. He has coached school teams and the national teams for a few years now. Konstantin has broken in several national and international debate competitions both as a speaker and as a judge. He will try to make use of his experience to coach the team to the best of his ability. | Following a year of judging and coaching in his home country, Slovenia, Matija will be the new assistant coach for Team Germany 2019. As a speaker, he represented Slovenia at two WSDCs and won several international tournaments. As he has learned debating in the Slovenian circuit, he hopes to enrich the coaching with new perspective this year. |
Developing Squad:
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Louisa Broeg – Coach of the Development Squad PPE-student at Oxford, Great Britain |
Meike Gärtner – Coach of the Development Squad Physics-student in Stuttgart, Germany |
| Louisa was a member of Team Germany 2018 herself. Therefore, she knows all the details relevant to debating internationally. Being a very structured and organized person, she will be perfect to be help members of the development squad to start being successful at international debating tournaments. | If you want to know how to become a German debater who succeeds at WSDC ask Meike. Not just has she been part of Team Germany twice, 2017 and 2018, but she has also been the 10th best speaker in the world 2018 for the English as a Foreign Language category at WSDC. Maike will be happy to pass on her knowledge to the members of the development squad. |