19th JUL-29th JUL 2020

Representing Germany at WSDC 2020 are:

Emilio Esquivel, UWC Freiburg

Ari Mühlthaler, Königin-Olga-Stift Stuttgart

Aude Nardelli, Dillmann-GYM Stuttgart

Sonja Soko, Dillmann-GYM Stuttgart

Allison Zhang, Karls-GYM Stuttgart

Coaches: 

Konstantin Krüger, Universität Heidelberg

Matija Pusnik, Slowenien

Judges:

TBA

At the weekend of 29th and 30th SEP, a record number of 31 candidates underwent trial debates, prep tasks, interviews and general knowledge tests to compete for the final five speaker positions for WSDC 2019 in Sri Lanka. The following seven speakers will continue to compete at international tournaments, such as EurOpen Stuttgart and WHO Zagreb for the final selection:

Team Germany:

Sonja Soko, 11th grade, Dillmann-Gymnasium Stuttgart

Anke Steinwart, 11th grade, Königin-Olga-Stift Stuttgart

Ibrahim Riaz, 12th grade, UWC Freiburg

Simon Gruner, 12th grade, Karls-Gymnasium Stuttgart

Sarah Grudzinski, 12th grade, Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium Böblingen

Ari Mühlthaler, 10th grade, Königin-Olga-Stift Stuttgart

Chantal Goutier, 12th grade, Landesgymnasium für Hochbegabte Schwäbisch Gmünd

Development team:

Clara Taut, 8th grade, Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium Böblingen

Allison Zhang, 10th grade, Karls-Gymnasium Stuttgart

Smirthi Subramanian, 9th grade, Königin-Olga-Stift Stuttgart

Tarun Ruschmeier, 9th grade, Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium Böblingen

Sakshi Mishra, 9th grade, Hans-und-Sophie-Scholl-Gymnasium Ulm

With the last days of summer upon us it is high time to look foreward to next summer and some warmer climates. Next year's World Schools Debating Championship will take place  from 23rd July - 2nd August in Colombo, Sri Lanka. 

In order to determine which 3-5 students will have the honour of representing Germany at this prestigious competition we will conduct a multi step team selection. More information on the whole selection process aswell as some ideas on what can be expected when becoming part of the national squad or team can be downloaded here.

Everyone is welcome to apply for the national team. Registration is open until 23rd September 2018.

As the first step of the process  all applicants will meet for a weekend of debates, impromptu speaking tasks and interviews. This selection weekend will take place on 29th -30th September 2018.

The coaches and a team of experienced judges will then narrow down the applicants to the National Squad consisting of approx. 8-10 debater, who will then be trained by the national coaches Konstantin and Matija and attend several international tournaments together throughout the winter.  

On top of the National Squad we will also be selecting the so called Developing Squad, a team of young and promising debaters, who will receive special training from Maike and Louisa and also attend international competitions to help them further their skills and hopefully make it to the National Squad and even the National Team in future years.

We are happy to introduce you to this years national team coaches:

WSDC National Team: 

Konstantin Krüger – Head Coach Law student in Heidelberg, Germany	Matija Pusnik – Assistant Coach International Relations student in Ljubljana, Slovenia
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: