Award Winning Chattahoochee High School

Chattahoochee High School serves 2,100 students with the fundamental goal to pursue excellence in academics, the arts, athletics and community service through a broad program of courses and extracurricular activities. Since 1991, Chattahoochee has served the Alpharetta suburb north of Atlanta as part of the Fulton County School System, and has been recognized as a Geogia School of Excellence in 1997, an "Outstanding American High School" by U.S. News & World Report in 1999, and a National Blue Ribbon School in 2000. Chattahoochee's school mascot is the cougar.

Top Ranked Cougar Forensics Team

Websters defines forensics as "the art or study of argumentative discourse." Students and coaches from Chattahoochee High School have produced THE most impressive forensics program and debate competition record in the Georgia public school system in the last decade:

• 9 Regional Championships
• 4 Varsity State Championships
• Record setting 2004-2005 season
  • crowned Novice State Champions, Junior Varsity State Champions, and AAAAA Varsity State Champions, sweeping State debate tournaments.
• Record setting 2005-2006 season
  • the most participants ever qualified and invited to the National Tournament of Champions

With these successes, our team of 90 students has grown to be the largest in the State and is consistently recognized as one of the best teams in the entire country (public and private). To maintain this level of performance, our teams compete against the "cream of the crop" in national tournaments, not just across the South, but in cities such as Boston, San Francisco, Chicago, and Dallas. This Year's Debate Team Schedule.

Debate competition is unlike any other team sport or activity. Debaters work with a partner in two-person teams and compete in 5 to 6 judged preliminary rounds. At the end of each round, a winner is declared and after the preliminary rounds the teams with the best records compete in "elimination rounds" until a single team remains.

Debaters all over the country debate on a single topic called the "resolution." For the 2008-2009 season, the resolution is:

Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase alternative energy incentives in the United States.   
  

Freshmen are eligible to compete at state touraments and can choose their level of participation. They may choose from only one to as many as eleven tournaments to compete in. Aft ther freshmen year, debaters that wish to continue will be asked to attend a summer camp to research the next year's resolution. Once a student advances to the Junior Varsity or Varsity level, participation in tournaments depends on ability and commitment to the team.

Cougar Coaches