Katheryne did three years of national circuit PF for Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland, where she was a three time qualifier to the TOC. As a competitor, she won several bid tournaments and earned multiple top speaker awards. Some notable accomplishments include: top speaker at Lexington, Lakeland, and the Harvard Round Robin, top-5 speaker awards at Valley, Blake, the Blake Round Robin, and Bronx, semifinalist at the TOC, 2x champion of the Valley Mid-America Cup (2020 and 2021), finalist at the Harvard Round Robin, semifinalist at Blake and the Blake Round Robin, and quarterfinalist at Harvard, Blake, and Stanford. As a coach, Katheryne has worked as an assistant at Taipei American School as well as ISD and NSD, where she has worked with multiple TOC qualifiers and highly competitive students. As an assistant coach, she has helped her students make deep runs and champion multiple national tournaments, most notably placing 3rd at NSDA nationals, championing the Cavalier Invitational, and much more. As a coach, Katheryne emphasizes fundamental skills and drill-based work to build a solid foundation in debate for her students. She also has experience with responding to and adapting critical argumentation styles to PF. Katheryne is very excited to join NDC and believes that the structure of working closely with four students over the course of an entire season fosters community and the best opportunity to refine skills and push for a successful competitive season! She greatly looks forward to meeting all of you.