SEATTLE
U DEBATE
SCHEDULE
PLEASE PUT MEETINGS AND TOURNAMENTS
INTO YOUR CALENDAR
and tell family/friends that you’re busy on those
days/weekends.
Fall and Winter
Tuesdays and Thursdays 6 to 9pm
We meet for preparation and practice.
Fall 2025: Pigott 109.
(we also have 105, 108 on Tuesdays, 105, 107 on Thursdays)
Tournament
Schedule (weekend events)
Spring
Thursdays in April, 615 to 915pm
We meet for practice debates.
You can do makeup for
missed team meetings—ask Jim asap when it happens.
Make yourself available for Debate Meetings and
Tournaments
First, get your homework done so it does not conflict with team meetings and tournaments. Same thing with friends and family—tell them in advance when it isn’t best to visit you at Seattle University.
Second, having you in class to prepare and practice is critical to improving your skills, your partner’s skills, AND it improves your teammates’ skills. When you are gone, everyone suffers. You are wanted. Be at the meetings.
Third, if you can’t come to class—please tell Jim ahead of time as soon as possible.
--Obviously, if you are having a significant health issue, serious family/friend problem, we support you and will seek to make things work out.
You can do makeup
practice/research—ask Jim.
Want to do another activity/have a class conflict?
--If you are participating in another Seattle U activity or class that might conflict with debate—tell Jim asap. We sincerely want you to be able to participate in that activity/class but we also need you to participate in our meetings and go to tournaments.
For those seeking van and especially plane travel tournaments . . .
We will do our best to be flexible with your objectives.
Still, if your other activity requires missing debate a great deal
and/or has an unclear
schedule for its meetings—
you’ll need to consider:
1 Don’t do the other activity
2 Tell the other activity you wish to continue but you will be doing debate meetings and tournaments (coordinate your schedule with them and it is best to talk with Jim as well)
3 Limit your travel with the debate team (be sure to inform Jim of this)
Sorry, we cannot make debate travel especially by plane a priority for you when you are not participating regularly.