Magnolia District Qualifier

for the 2026 National Tournament

11. Nominations for District Awards and World Schools

District Awards & Nominations

Nominating forms are open for the following district awards. The deadline for all of these is March 6th.

You can read more about each of the awards here (or you can wade through 15 different pages of descriptions on speechanddebate.org). Please do NOT use the nominating forms on the NSDA website. We’ll only use those for submitting our district winners to the national competition.

We’ll recognize all of these either at the Magnolia awards ceremony on March 14 or at the MHSAA awards ceremony on April 26.

District Student of the Year Nomination Form

District Coach & Admin Awards Nomination Form, including:

• District Coach of the Year

• District Assistant Coach of the Year

• District New Coach of the Year

• District Administrator of the Year

Other District Awards Nomination Form:

• District Volunteer of the Year

• District Alumni Achievement Award

• District Communicator of the Year

World Schools

World Schools Debate is a special event at NSDA Nationals, where we get to send two squads of 3-5 students made up of debaters from all over the state. Those students work together in May & June prior to the tournament to prepare, and then debate teams from other states and even other countries at nationals.

The ideal candidates for the WS teams are upperclassmen who are qualifiers or alternates in other events, are quick learners, and are excited to work together as a team to represent the whole state. That does not necessarily rule out underclassmen or students who are not high up in the alternate list. Above all, we are looking for students who can help our state be competitive. We have had an excellent track record in recent years of getting teams to elimination rounds at nationals, and we look to continue that success.

You and your students can watch an online demo World Schools debate here if this is a new event for you: https://www.speechanddebate.org/world-schools-online-demo-round-2020/.

If you have questions about World Schools, please reach out and ask!

Even if you already indicated that a student is interested in World Schools on your school’s single-entry preference forms, you must fill out the nomination form for them to be considered. Indicating where World Schools lies in the student’s preferences on the single-entry preference form is also required (via the NSDA forms tab in tabroom), but it is not sufficient to nominate a student.

Please finish your nominations for World Schools by Friday, March 6th.