Beach Forensics

The Beach speech team has spent the last few days at the National Forensics Association tournament hosted by TSU in Nashville. As outrounds start today, please extend a congratulations and good luck to Alex Christenson headed into octos in ADS and Poetry, and Alex and Rebecca Lavond headed to octos in Duo! Rebecca is headed into octos of communication analysis / rhetorical criticism!!!

We would also like to congratulate Alex on their acceptance to the graduate program in Comm Studies at CSULB.

Congratulations to all the others who do not advance but had a wonderful fight in the prelims Shay and Kris!

Alumni of CSU LB forensics we will need all of your support VERY soon 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Congratulations to the Semi-finalists of the 2026 CEDA! Iowa AP advanced on a 3-2 decision. Great run for Beach Forensics!! Curtis Ortega was the 3rd speaker and the Baby Jo Debater of the year. Daniel Son was the 5th place speaker. Mallory Johnson and Ale Escobar were the double octa finalists!! Jaysyn Green 💚 was the Graduate Student coach of the year!!

Alessandra and Curtis were awarded the CEDA All-American Award—recognizing debaters who demonstrate competitive excellence, academic success, strong character, and meaningful contributions to their squad.

This is the organization and tournament that Jack Howe founded. He was the first director of forensics at CSULB. He obviously left his mark on this community because so many folks spoke of him this week.

As this CEDA has ended, Deven Cooper, Now ascends to be the CEDA president following in the footsteps of Jack Howe!

CSULB OM is 7-1 at the 2026 NDT and the second seed ! We advance to the octas without debating