Apple Valley Minneapple Debate Tournament
2024 — Apple Valley, MN/US
8. Specialty Awards
The Golden Apple Award:
The Golden Apple Award recognizes the outstanding achievement and dedication of an individual in the debate community. This may include a head coach, assistant coach, judge, tab room worker, friend of the debate community, etc.
Please submit a brief explanation of your nominees to Chris Theis via email (minneappledebate@gmail.com) by October 4th.
Previous Recipients
2000
Wayne Brinton
Apple Valley High School (MN)
2001
Steve Fetzik
Austin High School (MN)
2002
Scott Wunn
Iowa City West High School (IA)
2003
Judy Olson
West Des Moines Valley High School (IA)
2004
Mike Burton
Eastside Catholic High School (WA)
2005
Cindi Timmons
Colleyville Heritage High School (TX)
2006
Paul Bellus
University of Iowa (IA)
2007
Doug Springer
New Trier Township High School (IL)
2008
Dave McGinnis
West Des Moines Valley High School (IA)
2009
DJ Brynteson
Robbinsdale Cooper High School (MN)
2010
Jo Russel
Edmond North High School (OK) (Retired)
2011
Tom Fones
St. Paul Academy (MN)
2012
Aaron Timmons
The Greenhill School (TX)
2013
George Clemmons
Lake Highland Preparatory School (FL)
2014
Dan Meyers
Presentation High School (CA)
2015
Zach Prax
Eastview High School (MN)
2016
Bob Shurtz
Hawken School (OH)
2017
Greg Malis
Isidore Newman (LA)
2018
Sandra Berkowitz
The Blake School (MN)
2019
Chetan Hertzig
Harrison (NY)
2020
Courtney Coffman
Northland Christian (TX)
2021
Joe Vaughan
Scarsdale (NY)
2022
Shane Stafford
Blake School (MN)
2023
Sheryl Kaczmarek
Lexington (MA)
Distinguished Alumnus:
The 2005 tournament was the Twentieth Anniversary of the Minneapple. In our Emerald Anniversary year, we introduced the formation of the AVHS Forensics Alumni Association. Each year, we recognize an alumnus of the Apple Valley Debate and Speech Team for his or her contributions, achievements, and service after graduating from AVHS.
Any Apple Valley alumnus is welcome to submit nominations for consideration to minneappledebate@gmail.com by October 5th.
Previous Recipients
2005
Shannon (Brinton) Heim (’90)
2006
Douglas Anderson (’90)
2007
Peter Nikolai (’91)
2008
Andrea Singh (’94)
2009
Angela (Zurick) Miller (’95)
2010
Reuben Advani (’90)
2011
Cherian Koshy (’97)
2012
Andy Poker (’98)
2013
Rachel Poker (’03)
2014
Beena Koshy (’99)
2015
Lindsey (Andersen) Poker (’04)
2016
Caitlin Reikowski Moore (’06)
2017
Chris Theis (’09)
2018
Pat Nichols ('04)
2019
Kathy Brumbaugh Gamble
2020
Susan (Gerbensky) Klammer ('07)
2021
Chris Bentley ('04)
2022
Ann Kim ('91)
2023
Sally Koering Zimney ('95)