Nathan Yan
Coach
Introduction:
Hi, my name is Nathan and I’m a second year student at UBC. I did debate for 7 years and have continued to do so in university because it’s a fun community to make friends in and it motivates me to just enjoy learning. I really do love the sport and my goal for classes is to help students enjoy and love the sport as much as I do, so they hopefully also are motivated to learn even outside of debate.
Education: Bachelors of Science. Combined Major in Science : Computer Science and Physics
Experience:
- 7+ years of competitive debate experience
- 1+ years of coaching experience
Debate Format: CNDF, BP, WSDC
Debate Achivements:
- 2024 Harvard Varsity PF Debate Tournament 6thSpeaker Open Online
- 2024 Harvard Varsity PF Debate Tournament Double Octofinals
- 2024 Stanford Invitation Varsity World Debate Tournament Octofinals
- 2023 Stanford Varsity World Debate Tournament Double Octofinals
- Vancouver Pre-WSDC Finalist
- Doxbridge Worlds Silver Break SemiOctofinalists
- Waterloo IV 2026 Novice Finalist
- UC Berkeley IV 2026 Novice Finalist
- Aberdeen IV 2026 Novice Finalist and Open Octofinalist.
- Aberdeen IV 2026 2nd Novice Speaker.

