Communication Student Resources
Speech and Debate
We are a fun and competitive team of students who won state, national and international titles in2022-2023. We are a group of students who love to learn. Our teammates become friends who travel together and enjoy meeting students from colleges from around the nation. Please click the link below to read more information on who we are what we do.
Join the team!
- Email coach Ralph at: Castellanos_Ralph@sccollege.edu or visit D-129 on Fridays from 10 am - 1:15 pm.
- Enroll in COMM 130: Forensics Team to join!
- All SCC students may enroll in the course to join the team.
Coach Information:
Ralph Castellanos, team facilitator and coach
Rita Rafael, individual events coach
George Talavera, instructional assistant, debate coach
2021-2022 Awards
- California State Championship (CCCFA)
- 2nd place college sweepstakes
- Gold medal in Poetry - Lizeth Martinez
- Gold medal in Program Oral Interpretation - Gillian Palacios
- Silver medal in Program Oral Interpretation - Lizeth Martinez
- Bronze medal in Poetry - Guadalupe Guzman
- Bronze medal in Prose - Gillian Palacios
- National Online Forensics Championship (NOF)
- Gold in Oral Program Interpretation - Lizeth Martinez
- Silver in Program Oral Interpretation - Gillian Palacios
- Bronze in Poetry - Lizeth Martinez
- International Championship (IFA)
- 2nd place college sweepstakes
- 1st place in Poetry - Lizeth Martinez
- 1st place in Prose - Gillian Palacios
- U.S National Championship (Phi Rho PI)
- 1st place college Individual Events sweepstakes, Hindman division
- 3rd place (Silver) college overall sweepstakes, Hindman division
- Gold in Program Oral Interpretation - Lizeth Martinez
- Gold in Prose, Bronze in Program Oral Interp - Gillian Palacios
- Bronze in IPDA debate - Samantha Quezada