Public feedback is now open on applicants from who have applied to coach or assistant coach regional teams in 2026.
The community feedback process is not concerned with a candidate’s skill but rather their conduct. In particular, the New Zealand Schools’ Debating Council are interested in any feedback members of the community may have with regard to the candidate’s past performance as a coach or judge of school students, or any other relevant concerns regarding their behaviour around children.
The applicants to coach or assistant coach regional teams are as follows:
Upper North Island
- Giverny Miedema
- Ranudi Lelwala
- Judy Fong
- Levi Pruden
- Riley Mitchell
- Zan Warren-Kazor
- Virginia Quartermain
- Sumner Hancock
- Yuval Sela
- Eve French
- Tina Hille-Taylor
- Jamie Pett
- Melissa Connolly
- Nicholas Lum
- Matthew Zheng
- Alan Chen
Lower North Island
- Cara Homewood
- Isobel Fraser
- Jack Turnbull
- Lucy Jessep
- Oliver Gillespie
- Peter Gedye
- Saad Aamir
- Sophie Crozier
- Stella Bloomfield
- Theo Masseurs
- Sophie Land
- Georgia Barclay
- Julia Randerson
South Island
- Sam Allan
- Ethan Jackson
- Jordan Hannon
- Luke Wylie
- Rebecca Elder
- Sylvie Kidd
- North
Please email any relevant feedback to president@debating.org.nz by 11:59pm on Sunday 15 February.
Please note that this is not an opportunity to provide general feedback about the applicants, as might be the case in respect to applications to be on a University adjudication core.