Weekly Coach Newsletter - September 2, 2025
Welcome back to a new season of speech and debate! In your weekly coach newsletter, we round up helpful resources, opportunities, and community information to simplify your life and support your team. The new membership cycle started August 1! If you haven't yet renewed your annual school membership, be sure to do so by the end of September to continue to receive this newsletter. Questions about speech and debate? Email us at info@speechanddebate.org or call us at (920) 748-6206. We're here to help!
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Use Our Tools and Make a Plan to Recruit New Team Members
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A new season means new recruits! Here are a few quick ideas to get started building your team:
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- Connect with teachers and leaders of other clubs to ask them to recommend students for the team.
- Coordinate students visiting classes (e.g., all English classes) to give a quick pitch.
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Encourage students to pass out flyers at info tables before school, after school, or over lunch hours.
- Get a plug in school announcements.
- Hang posters in school hallways to spread the word.
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Encourage students to share their experience with the team on social media.
Find flyers, social graphics, videos, and more to support your recruitment on our website.
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Access September Resources
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Download the latest tools to help your teams prepare for new topics or get practice in with sample materials! The following are member resources available for member coaches and students at member schools.
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$5,000 Team Grant Available This Fall—Apply by October 1
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Keith West dedicated his life to coaching and teaching youth in the ways of argumentation and debate. To honor his life and legacy, his family and friends have established the Keith West Memorial School Grant to provide one $5,000, two $2,500 grants, and five $1,000 grants to teams who have strong potential but a significant lack of financial resources.
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Our final round videos are one of our most popular resources with students. They're a great teaching tool to highlight ways students can learn techniques and strategies from peers. Rounds from 2024 and earlier are now available for members online.
The 2025 rounds are online for Resource Package subscribers, which is currently available at the Early Bird Discount rate of $99, down from the regular price of $199.
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Save Time: Import Your NSDA Roster to Tabroom.com
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Once you've entered your new students for the season onto your NSDA roster, it's time to connect the dots with Tabroom.com. Linking your Tabroom.com student roster to your NSDA account will allow you to automatically import your students to Tabroom.com. This also enables auto-pointing, where a student's points from tournaments hosted on Tabroom.com can be posted automatically and approved rather than being hand entered. Get the instructions »
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Read the Nationals Chronicle
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The 2025 National Tournament was one for the record books. Check out this special issue of Rostrum where we recap the highlights of the week and celebrate our award winners!
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