Coaches
SDS retains the services of several world-class Parliamentary coaches. Our coaches have appeared in the final rounds of the World University Debating Championships (WUDC), APDA Nationals Finals, US BP Nationals Finals (USUDC), North American BP Finals (NAUDC), and numerous other major tournaments. They have been top speakers at APDA Nationals, the North American Championships, the US Universities Debating Championships and many other tournaments.
Coaches
Ethan Jiang
Ethan studied Economics, International Relations, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of Chicago. As a debater, he twice reached the semifinals of WUDC and broke as the top team at Hart House. He also broke to octofinals at APDA nationals in 2024 and reached semifinals of Harvard APDA in 2023. Ethan enjoys collecting postcards, biking around Chicago (he has visited 6% of the city's 1100 bikeshare stations), and watching the Celtics.
Hadar Goldberg
Hadar was on the Core Adjudication team of WUDC 2022, EUDC 2023 & 2021, Yale IV, Oxford IV, and more. She additionally judged finals in WUDC 2021 and EUDC 2020, as well as in many other competitions like the Oxford IV, HWS RR, and LSE Open. As a speaker, Hadar was a 2023 WUDC Open and ESL Best Speaker and Open Finalist, 2024 WUDC top breaking team, twice top breaking team on EUDC (2022&2024), and 2020 WUDC ESL Champion. Hadar coached dozens of teams all over the world, which made several notable achievements, including Finaling WUDC, EUDC, ABP and USUDC. Outside of debating, Hadar can be found drawing, babysitting her nephews, and practising law after swearing she wouldn't.
Enting Lee
Enting was Chief Adjudicator of WUDC 2022 and has judged five WUDC finals, as well as the finals of three Asian championships, Oxford IV, and Cambridge IV. A long time ago, she was a finalist and top speaker of the North American Universities Debating Championships, a finalist and 4th speaker of the HWS Round Robin, and a two-time finalist of the Yale IV. Slightly more recently, she was the top speaker of the LSE Open and the coach for the Panama WSDC team and the Harvard WUDC team. Other than debating, Enting can be found crafting, doing yoga and binge-reading!
Asher Spector
Asher is a PhD student in Stanford's statistics department, and (more importantly) is happily a coach for Stanford’s parliamentary debate team. In college, Asher competed in British and American parliamentary debate for Harvard, where he won the North American championships (2019), finaled at the HWS round robin (2021), reached semifinals at APDA nationals (2021) and the Yale IV (2019), and broke seventh at the WUDC 2021 (where he promptly lost in octofinals), alongside various other international breaks. When he’s not coaching for SDS, Asher can be found playing ping-pong, doing research, and quote "trying to convince undergraduates to join the team, because it’s an amazing organization"!