Luke Juday is a native of Virginia and holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Philosophy from Grove City College in Pennsylvania. He stumbled into the debate world at the end of his junior year of high school, making his NCFCA career short but sweet. He earned top speaker at the 2006 Tennessee National Open and was 6-0 and third speaker at Nationals the same year.
As a student at Grove City, he was senior class president, editor of the college paper, a member of the academic integrity review board, vice president of the Adelphikos Fraternity, and captain of Grove City Debate. In his last two years of college debate, he and his partner amassed a 103-24 record, broke at every tournament they attended, were varsity champions at 10 of them, and finished 2009 ranked 15th in the country on NPTE points. In 2010, he was the top speaker at PKD Nationals and part of the first Grove City team to compete at the 30th World Universities Debating Championships in Antalya, Turkey.
After graduating, he earned a Fulbright fellowship working with debate in southern Africa. During his time in Africa, he served on the Organizing Committee for the 31st World Debating Championships, hosted by the University of Botswana. He also coached UB’s British Parli team, appeared in weekly debates on Botswana national television, and backpacked through eight countries.
Since returning from Africa, he has become an indigent vagabond, playing guitar and banjo for sanity, judging at the occasional tournament, and preparing to teach middle school in the fall. He loves all things true, good, and beautiful – especially music, classical education, growing things [all legal], soccer [Barcelona], the New Urbanism movement [check it out!], and the great Commonwealth of Virginia.
Unfortunately for Josiah, Luke does not, under any circumstances, vote for topical counterplans.