UIL Speech Judges
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Sohail Jouya
Current high school:
None
Currently coaching?: Yes
Conference: New York
Number of years coached: 12
Number of tournaments judged: 13 and counting
High school attended:
Oak Park (Kansas City, Missouri)
Graduated high school: 2007
Participated in high school: Yes
Participated in college: No
Judging qualifications:
I worked at the UTNIF for four years (I'd always give the UIL, TFA, and Adaptation lecture each year) and coached at Westwood as the Director there for the covid year. I debated in Kansas City, Missouri in HS and coached at Kansas City Kansas Community College for four years where we qualified several teams to the NDT, CEDA Nationals, and won NPDA Nationals and NFALD Nationals where I was the primary argument coach and judge for those tournaments. I was also the Director of Debate at the University of South Florida from '21-'22 where we competed in NFALD, CARD, and Policy.
I have worked at the Harvard Debate Workshops, the Dartmouth Debate Institute, UNT/UTD, and UC-Berkeley's camp. I'm very familiar with stock issues paradigms, policymaker, and tabula rasa approaches to any and all approaches to CX from the layest of lay, to the traditional styles that are in western Texas and western Kansas, to the NDTCEDA make up, too.
Judging Philosophy
CX
Judging approach: Other (please explain below)
Policy priority: Resolution of substantive issues is more important than communication skills
Evidence philosophy: Quality of evidence is more important than quantity of evidence
Paradigm: Open to traditional stock issues, national circuit policymaking, philosophical/identity arguments, etc. https://www.tabroom.com/index/paradigm.mhtml?judge_person_id=29387
LD
Approach: Resolution of substantive issues is more important than communication skills
Philosophy:
Open to traditional V and VC debate as well as fiated Affirmatives in addition to kritikal approaches - I will vote on framework/topicality against krikital Affirmatives if the position is won https://www.tabroom.com/index/paradigm.mhtml?judge_person_id=29387
Contact Information
email: sohailjouya@gmail.com
cell:
office:
Availability Information
Meet types:
CX State
Qualified for:
CX
LD
Congress
Travel
Region of residence:
1
I will travel to: 1