Coaching

Mrs. Cryan is going into her third year with the Brophy/Xavier speech and debate team, along with running the Brophy Theatre department while teaching AP Literature and English II. Mrs. Cryan has been a professional in the theatre world since 2010 when she stage managed a children's tour that performed around the Syracuse, New York area. She co-founded a free "Shakespeare in the Park" company in New Jersey along with stage managing over 50 productions ranging from musicals, straight plays, sporting events, and fundraisers. Prior to Brophy, Mrs. Cryan was the Drama Director of Leonia High School in Leonia, New Jersey before moving to Arizona where from 2020 - 2022 was the head coach of Hamilton High School's speech and debate program in Chandler, Arizona. Among her accomplishments is her new son, Tyler, who was born last spring. 

Contact: bcryan@brophyprep.org 

I am a Brophy alum, class of '16, and currently work as a consultant at Deloitte for AI in the regulation of pharmaceuticals. 

National College Debate, Southwest Regional District One Bid Winner, 2016-2017 

Highschool Policy Debate Champion, Arizona Division 1, 2016

Coach of Two Time State Champion and National Top 25 Debate Team, 2017-2019

 Josh is going into his first year of coaching public forum for the Brophy Speech and Debate team. He is a sophomore at the University of Notre Dame and graduated from the Marist School in Atlanta where he competed as a part of the speech and debate team for all of high school and was its president as a senior

Josh competed in a multitude of different events as a competitor and qualified to Nationals in public forum, congress, extemp, and dramatic interpretation. He broke at the Tournament of Champions in public forum and was ranked as high as fourth in the country in the event. Josh knows that participating in high school speech and debate changed his life. It made him more confident, sharpened his research skills, and taught him to work harder than he ever had before.

Josh believes that anyone can be successful in debate as long as they possess a great work ethic. His coaching philosophy is centered around attention to detail, mutual accountability, and respect for the activity. His goal is to make public forum an environment where everyone is encouraged to contribute regardless of their experience level. He hopes to help his students use debate as a tool to realize their potential, much in the same way it helped him.

Gary Williams Sr. graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY with a bachelor’s degree in general engineering.  Since then, his professional experiences include company level command in the U.S. Army;  line level manufacturing management and process control at Texas Instruments and Procter & Gamble;  27 years of Customer Service, Product and Project Management at American Express;  and 15 years of small business ownership at the Academy of Classical Ballet in Peoria AZ.  Always looking to make a difference in his community, highlights of his charitable activities include President of the West Point Society of Phoenix, Treasurer of Voices Take Flight, Co-Lead of the Phoenix Chapter of the Veterans Engagement Team at American Express, and most recently, Board Member for the Buffalo Soldiers of the Arizona Territory.  When time permits, Gary enjoys pursuing his hobbies of singing and song writing.  Gary’s immediate family includes his wife of 38 years (Jeni) and a son (Gary Jr. - Brophy ’11).

As an orator on the Debate Team at Vero Beach High School (Vero Beach, FL), his most significant achievement was 1st Place Original Oratory at the Barkley Forum held at Emory University.  After a long hiatus away from the activity, Gary is excited to join the Brophy Speech and Debate Team as a volunteer coach.  He looks forward to sharing his enthusiasm for the well written, cleanly delivered, and engagingly crafted speech with the students at Brophy College Preparatory.