Steve Clemmons
Assistant Director of Forensics

Steve Clemmons joins the University of Oregon with over twenty-five years of involvement in academic debate as a competitor and educator of both high school and college students. Before coming to Eugene, Steve was a Director of Forensics and Teacher at Skyline HS (Oakland, CA) and the college debate coach at Santa Clara University. Clemmons is pursuing his Master’s at the School of Education, a program ranked in the top-10 nationally.

Clemmons twice attended the NDT (top-twenty speaker) and was a three-time participant at CEDA Nationals (octa-finalist twice and a top-twenty speaker) and participated twice at NPDA Nationals (twice in the elimination rounds, semifinalist, top ten speaker)

Clemmons coached High School National Champions in Congress, Extemporaneous Speaking and Lincoln Douglas debate, and qualified dozens of students to the Tournament of Champions, and over a hundred students to the California State Tournament. His college students have qualified multiple times to the NDT and NPTE National Tournament, with wins at most of the major national tournaments in policy debate and parliamentary debate.