Joshua brings over seven years of competitive debate experience to Meridian, having joined NCFCA in 2018.
By his sophomore year in 2024 he had won the largest NCFCA National Open in North Carolina. He followed that with a dominant junior season in 2025, capturing the Team Policy National Championship while posting a perfect 10–0 record at the National Championship tournament and 11–0 at the largest National Open of the year. His junior season closed with two national titles, 40 consecutive negative wins, and only one affirmative loss in his final 30 rounds.
- C-01 · COMPETITOR
Joshua brings over seven years of competitive debate experience to Meridian, having joined NCFCA in 2018.
By his sophomore year in 2024 he had won the largest NCFCA National Open in North Carolina. He followed that with a dominant junior season in 2025, capturing the Team Policy National Championship while posting a perfect 10–0 record at the National Championship tournament and 11–0 at the largest National Open of the year. His junior season closed with two national titles, 40 consecutive negative wins, and only one affirmative loss in his final 30 rounds.
- C-02 · BUILDER
Across his career, Joshua advanced to over 75 outrounds in debate and more than 100 outrounds across speech categories.
Beyond NCFCA, where he was a Debate Speaking National Finalist and Regional Speech Champion, he also advanced multiple times in the Coolidge Foundation debate competition. In his final years he turned toward coaching, co-founding a debate club that produced five National Tournament champions, over twenty-five National Tournament qualifiers, and three National Tournament-winning cases.
- B-01 · AS A COMPETITOR
2025 NCFCA National Champion, Team Policy.
2024 NCFCA National Open Champion (North Carolina).
10–0 record at the 2025 National Championship.
11–0 at the largest National Open of the year.
40 consecutive negative wins; one affirmative loss in his final 30 rounds.
75+ debate outrounds; 100+ speech outrounds across his career.
Debate Speaking National Finalist; Regional Speech Champion.
Multiple advancements in the Coolidge Foundation debate competition.
- B-02 · AS A COACH
Co-founded a debate club that produced five National Tournament champions, over twenty-five National Tournament qualifiers, and three National Tournament-winning cases.
Joshua's coaching focuses on helping individual students debate excellently in their own style: speaking, evidence, and narrative presentation tuned to who they already are. He believes powerful debate is built on a deep understanding of arguments and the theories behind them, not on exaggeration or dishonesty.
He focuses on understanding the debate round in its entirety and weighing each argument to tailor a response. The work centers on the fundamentals of time management and narrative control.
Joshua specializes in argument generation for negative and case building for affirmative, giving students practical steps to improve quickly. He is excited to teach any student ready and willing to put in the work to excel in the skills debate refines.
- B-03 · PHILOSOPHY
- Debate excellently in your own style.
- Understanding beats exaggeration.
- Weigh every argument; read the whole round.
- Generation on negative; construction on affirmative.