Coaching Staff

Maggie Berthiaume — Director of Debate (debate@woodward.edu)

The 2023-2024 school year is Ms. Berthiaume's thirteenth at Woodward Academy. Before joining the War Eagles, she was the Director of Debate at Chattahoochee High School and Lexington High School (in Massachusetts) where she led two of the nation's most successful debate teams. She is a past recipient of the National Debate Coaches' Association Educator of the Year Award and the Georgia Forensic Coaches' Association Debate Coach of the Year Award and is a member of the Barkley Forum's prestigious Gold Key Society. She has served on the Executive Board of the NDCA and the GFCA and was a member of the editorial board of Contemporary Argumentation & Debate, the leading academic journal about debate. During the summer, she is an instructor at the Emory National Debate Institute and the Gonzaga Debate Institute and has previously taught at the Spartan Debate Institutes at Michigan State University, the Georgetown Debate Seminar, and the Dartmouth Debate Institute. She is an alum of Dartmouth College where she was an exceptional intercollegiate debater, reaching the quarterfinals of the National Debate Tournament and the semifinals of CEDA Nationals.

Gabriel Morbeck — Assistant Debate Coach

Coach Morbeck joined Woodward for the 2023-2024 season. An Assistant Debate Coach at Emory University and a Graduate Research Assistant at Villanova University, Gabriel was an accomplished high school and college debater. He earned a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Emory and an M.A. in History from Villanova.