Co-Director

Bryce Piotrowski is the Director of Forensics at Seven Lakes High School. While a student at the University of Minnesota – go Gophs! – Bryce coached Public Forum for the Lakeville Debate Team, growing the squad from a couple of students to a nationally competitive squad of a dozen debaters. Bryce also served as the President of the student-run Minnesota NPDA (National Parliamentary Debate Association) team, winning the Minnesota state tournament three times. Bryce has coached Public Forum at summer camps since graduating from high school, and served as the Director of the Dartmouth Debate Institute’s Public Forum Division in 2020, Senior Instructor at the National Debate Forum from 2018 to 2021, and an instructor at the Minnesota Debate Institute in 2018 and 2019. Bryce is excited to co-direct the first session of PFBC!

Co-Director

Christian has worked as an assistant debate coach at the Blake School in Minneapolis, MN since 2014. Since then he has coached multiple major invitational champions, state champions, national champions (NDCA and TOC), and PF Season Excellence Award winners along with finalists and other deep elimination round participants. Since 2015, Christian has worked as a senior lab leader at the Harvard Debate Council’s Summer Workshops, a Director of Public Forum at Dartmouth Debate Initiative(2017) and a Curriculum Coordinator/Senior lab leader at the National Debate Forum(2017-2021). He’s excited to bring a love for activity and hopes to share that with students at PFBC this summer.

Lillian debated for four years at St. Michael Albertville High School in MN, where they lead the debate team their junior and senior year. Throughout their time on the local and national circuit, Lillian qualified to the Minnesota state tournament twice, NSDA Nationals twice, and the silver TOC. During their year on the national circuit, Lillian broke at each tournament attended and earned speaker awards at tournaments like Mid America, Minneapple, and Badgerland. They also placed second at the Blake Round Robin and 7th at NSDA nationals senior year. Since graduating, they've remained an active judge in the debate community and has enjoyed continuing to help debaters improve. Lillian is excited to be working with PF Boot Camp this summer!

Maddie is the head coach of Lakeville Debate in Minnesota where she’s worked since 2019. She has qualified students every year to the Minnesota State Tournament, NSDA Nationals, and the Tournament of Champions, as well as coached students to frequently reach late out rounds and final both national circuit and local tournaments. Her students specifically have championed Yale, Badgerland, and Dowling and reached late out rounds at Bronx, Apple Valley, and Blake. Outside of Lakeville, she’s coached at various summer camps since 2019 and teaches debate classes. She also has a degree in political science from the University of Minnesota and works in the Lakeville School District Office.

Joshua Enebo debated in Public Forum for 3 years on the national circuit for The Blake School. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 2025 and is attending WashU Law School. He has worked at PFBC since its inception, after working for NDF. He was the Assistant Director of Debate at The Blake School for 4 years and is now an assistant coach for Taipei American School. As a debater, he was a semifinalist at the TOC, NDCA , Bronx, Ivy Street Round Robin, and won a state championship. He has coached multiple national champions and more than 5 state champions. His students have won the UKSO, Bronx, Emory, NDCA, and numerous round robins including the Ivy Street Round Robin. They have reached finals of the TOC and Glenbrooks, as well as placing top 8 at Nationals. He believes that research and working hard to improve are the most important parts of succeeding at the activity.

Chad Meadows is the Director of Debate at Western Kentucky University and an Assistant with the Marist School in Atlanta Georgia. In a little over a decade of debate coaching, Chad has worked with 7 national champions in college Lincoln-Douglas debate and worked with some of the most prolific students in public forum debate both during the season and the summer at various debate institutes. More than anything, Chad believes debate success can be attained by any student willing to master its fundamentals and be a positive member of the debate community. He is excited to bring that approach to the Boot Camp this summer.

A former head speech and debate coach at Park City High School and current assistant coach at the Nueva School, Gavin’s students have advanced to elimination rounds at almost every major national invitational, including the TOC, NDCA Nationals, and NSDA Nationals. Gavin leads labs at NDF, Berkeley, and the Utah Debate Coaches’ Association summer institute; he is particularly thrilled to be joining the PFBC. Gavin studies economics and campaign management at the University of Utah.

Tom has been a senior lab leader at PFBC for 2 years, coaching dozens of alumni to the TOC. He has also led labs at NSD and UC Berkeley. As a competitor, Tom debated as both at first and second speaker for Park City High School, where he amassed 8 TOC bids and qualified to the Gold TOC twice. Most notably, he won Alta Silver & Black, reached semifinals at Stanford, and made deep elimination runs at Glenbrooks, Apple Valley, UK Season Opener, Mid America Cup, UNLV Golden Desert, and Yale. He holds a BA in economics from McGill University.

Mark has coached debate for 6 years, and is currently a coach at Edina High School and the Isidore Newman School. His students have included multiple NSDA national finalists and a TOC octofinalist in LD, and a NAUDL championship team in policy.

Parker is an NSDA Diamond coach who currently serves as the Director of Speech and Debate at Theodore Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, IA. Since becoming head coach at Roosevelt, his teams have won the Iowa state championship and qualified to the Tournament of Champions every year, culminating in his first partnership clearing to elimination rounds at TOC in 2025. In addition to PFBC, Parker also leads labs at NDF and NSD. Parker enjoys all styles of debate and believes that it is the single best thing students can do with their time in school. He is looking forward to meeting everyone at camp!

Josh debated in public forum for Marist for 4 years and attended PFBC as a camper during its inaugural session 2 summers ago. During his junior and senior years he earned 17 bids to the TOC and was ranked top 5 in the country. Josh has broken at both the TOC and NDCA and earned speaker awards at major tournaments such as the Ivy Street Round Robin, Sunvite, Durham, and more. He considers PFBC to be one of the most formative and fun experiences of his debate career and looks forward to returning as an instructor.

Ruhi has debated Public Forum for 4 years at Blake. Her most notable achievements include winning MN State and the Blake Round Robin, finaling Glenbrooks, octafinaling the TOC, and semifinaling the UK Season Opener. She’s qualified to Nats and the GTOC three times, and placed eighth at Nats last year. As a PFBC alum, she’s excited to come back to coach this summer!

Abby debated in Public Forum for 4 years for Lakeville South at both the local and national level. Most notably, she qualified to MN State and NSDA Nationals four times, and qualified to the Tournament of Champions in gold twice. Abby also championed the Dowling tournament in 2024. She has coached and judged throughout high school, and spent the summer of 2025 coaching at PFBC!

Yezul debated in Public Forum for Lakeville North for four years. His most notable achievements include amassing 11 bids to the TOC, being invited to the Harvard and King round robins, achieving a peak national and state ranking of 6th and 1st respectively, and top speaking the John Edie. He is experienced in substance debate and is excited to coach for PFBC.