2024-2025 · Panama

Double-octofinalists

Ann Wang (BC), Jinjou Wang (AB), Kelvin Fan (ON), Lucas Le (SK), and Sarah Li (ON) were Double-Octo Finals at WSDC 2025.

Thanks to our wonderful coaches: Brent Schmidt and Arsalan Ghaemi. Also on the 2024-2025 developmental team: Grace Liu (BC), Hannah Li (AB), Hannah Liu (ON), Jade Wang (AB), Miriam D’Amico (QC), Jin Zhou (ON), and Emily Zhao (BC).

2023-2024 · Serbia

Double-octofinalists · Top Speaker

Barry Gu (AB), Isabelle Monsman (SK), Jinjou Wang (AB), Leo Zhu (BC), and Michelle Liu (BC) helped Canada reach Double-Octo Finals at WSDC 2024 and the Top Speaker award for a second year in a row.

Thanks to our wonderful coaches: Brent Schmidt and Arsalan Ghaemi. Also on the 2023-2024 developmental team: Caylee Pan (ON), Jin Zhou (ON), Julian Zhang (ON), Miriam D’Amico (QC), Neil He (AB), Summit Kawakami (AB), and Vanessa Zhang (BC).

Speaker awards: Jinjou Wang (Top Speaker), Michelle Liu (3rd), Leo Zhu (4th).

2022-2023 · Vietnam

Grand Finalists · Top Speaker

Angela Lu (BC), Annushka Agarwal (BC), Maria Xu (ON), Rally Lin (ON), and Tanush Agarwal (ON) brought Canada all the way to the finals of WSDC, losing on a 7:4 split to Team USA, and secured our first Top Speaker award at WSDC.

Thanks to our wonderful coaches: Brent Schmidt and Arsalan Ghaemi. Also on the 2022-2023 developmental team: Alice Xu (BC), Barry Gu (AB), Eric Li (BC), Hao Ni (ON), Jonathan Chu (BC), Randy Chang (ON), and Summit Kawakami (AB).

Speaker awards: Annushka Agarwal (Top Speaker), Rally Lin (10th).

2021-2022 · Netherlands

Quarter-finalists

Annushka Agarwal (BC), Max Williams (AB), Randy Chang (ON), Stellar Zhang (ON), and Vincent Gao (BC) reached the quarter-finals at WSDC 2022, bowing out to Team Sri Lanka.

Thanks to our wonderful coaches: Arsalan Ghaemi and Brent Schmidt. Also on the 2021-2022 developmental team: Alex Logan (BC), Alice Xu (BC), Angela Lu (BC), Jena Yue (BC), Michael Chen (ON), and Sean Oh (BC).

2020-2021 · Macau (online)

World Champions

Angie Lei (ON), Gaby Lin (ON), Isaac Cape (QC), Matthew Anzarouth (QC), and Vincent Gao (BC) are the 2021 WSDC champions after a final against Hong Kong. Back-to-back champions, and 3rd year in a row in the finals for Team Canada.

Thanks to our wonderful coaches: Jason Xiao (Team Canada 2016) and Brent Schmidt. Alternates at WSDC 2021: Emily Ni (BC), Randy Chang (ON), and Sarenna McKellar (ON). Also on the 2020-2021 developmental team: Alex Logan (BC), Griffin Wong (AB), Penelope Cholakis (MB), and Victor Wu (SK).

Speaker awards: Matthew Anzarouth (2nd), Vincent Gao (9th).

2019-2020 · Mexico (online)

World Champions

Angela Li (ON), Matt Anzarouth (QC), Matt Farrell (NS), Max Rosen (ON), and Reana Yan (ON) are the 2020 WSDC champions after a final against Sri Lanka.

Thanks to our wonderful coach Jason Xiao (Team Canada 2016). Also on the 2019-2020 developmental team: Alison Lee (BC), Angie Lei (ON), Ella Waxman (QC), Gabrielle Wong (BC), Isaac Cape (QC), Kathryn Pozios (ON), and Nick Abernathy (NS).

Speaker awards: Matt Anzarouth (3rd), Angela Li (5th), Max Rosen (6th), Reana Yan (8th).

2018-2019 · Thailand

Grand Finalists

Angela Li (ON), Matthew Farrell (NS), Max Rosen (ON), Naomi Panovka (ON), and Vivian Zhang (BC) made it to finals, losing to Team India.

Thanks to our wonderful coach: Jason Xiao (Team Canada 2016). Also on the 2018-2019 developmental team: Alice Chen (ON), Allan Lee (BC), Angelina Zhang (BC), Jonathan Liu (ON), Matthew Anzarouth (QC), and Saara Meghji (BC).

2017-2018 · Croatia

Octofinalists

Adythia Chakravarthy (ON), Anwyn Diakuw (SK), Ashley Phord-Toy (BC), Naomi Panovka (ON), and Andrew Yun (BC) were Octo-finalists after a loss to Team Singapore, with four of the five members finishing in the top 20 speakers.

Thanks to our wonderful coaches: Liz Stratton and Wendy James. Our alternates at WSDC 2018 were Angelina Zhang (BC), and Saara Meghji (BC).

2016-2017 · Indonesia

Quarter-finalists

Dasha Metropolitansky (ON), Martin Duffy (ON), Armin Safavi (ON), Kimathi Muiruri (ON), and Anna Yang (BC) finished as Quarter-Finalists on a 3:2 decision. Aislin Flynn (Team Canada 2012), Iqbal Kassam (Team Canada 2009, 2010), and Liz Stratton were our coaches. Alternates at WSDC 2017 were Andrew Yun (BC) and Alykhan Jetha (ON).

2015-2016 · Germany

Grand Finalists

Alex Wu (ON), Dasha Metropolitansky (ON), Luciano Kwon (BC), Naz Gocek (ON), and Rory Flynn (NS) made it to finals, losing to Team England. Back-to-back finals for Team Canada. Thanks to our coach: Aislin Flynn (Team Canada 2012) with support from Veenu Goswami (Team Canada 2010)

2014-2015 · Singapore

Grand Finalists

Team Canada 2015 was made up of five debaters and two alternates from across Canada.  They competed at the 2015 World Schools Debating Championships held from July 27th – August 7th in Singapore.  Team members were Rory Flynn (NS), Peter Koczanski (MB), Swarochish Goswami (AB), Lloyd Lyall (BC) and Jason Xiao (SK).  The alternates were Dasha Metropoltansky (ON) and Tatiana Kurschner (BC). Canada came in second to Singapore but not without a great performance.  This team was coached by Veenu Goswami (Team Canada 2010), assisted by Aislin Flynn (Team Canada 2012).

2013-2014 · Thailand

Semi-finalists

Team Canada 2014 was made up of five debaters and three alternates from across Canada: Nasra Moumin (SK), Rory Flynn (NS), Elliot Kaufmann (ON), Graeme Climie (AB) and Behbod Negahban (BC). The alternates, Peter Koczanski (MB), Lloyd Lyall (BC) and Swarochish Goswami (AB) also attended the WSDC. After winning Pan Americans 2013 (Bermuda), EurOpens 2014 (Germany) and Pan Americans 2014 (Mexico), the team had an outstanding WSDC, breaking 4th after preliminary rounds and advancing to the semi-finals before being defeated by South Africa. The team was coached by Veenu Goswami (Team Canada 2010) and Liana Palko.

2012-2013 · Turkey

Quarter-finalists

Anisah Mahomed (ON; team captain), Jessica Dorfmann (BC), Julia Milden (BC), Nasra Moumin (SK), Oliver Bjornsson (NS) with alternate Alessandra Harkness (BC) advanced to a Quarter-Final finish before being knocked out by Ireland on a razor-thin 4:3 decision. The team was coached by Elisa Frank and Josh Judah.

2011-2012 · South Africa

Octofinalists

Team Canada 2012 were octo-finalists at the 2012 World Schools Debating Championships in Cape Town, South Africa. Its five competing members were Debi Ogunrinde, Nik Carverhill, Nic Martin, Jessica Dorfmann, and Neil MacIsaac, and the alternates are Aislin Flynn and Anisah Mahomed. Team Canada 2012 was coached by Josh Judah and Elisa Frank

2010-2011 · Scotland

Quarter-finalists

Team Canada 2011 were quarter-finalists at the 2011 WSDC in Dundee, Scotland, knocking out Pakistan in the octo-finals before losing to eventual winners Singapore. Competing members were Debi Ogunrinde, Nic Martin, Liz Stratton, Sam Rappaport and Ashley Bowron, with alternate Nik Carverhill. The team was coached by Tracey Lee

2009-2010 · Qatar

World Champions

Team Canada 2010 was the champion of the World Schools Debating Championships 2010 in Doha, Qatar! Coached by Tracey Lee, the team’s competing members were Iqbal Kassam, Keenan MacNeal (AB), Veenu Goswami (AB), Jonathan Carson and Lyle Dobbin, though the whole 9-member team attended the tournament.

2008-2009 · Greece

Quarter-finalists

Our team of Tim Abdulla (MB), Pam Cohen (ON), Sam Greene (NFLD), Iqbal Kassam (BC) and Daniel Lewis (NS), under the leadership of coach Tracey Lee, acquitted themselves extremely well at the 2009 WSDC tournament in Athens. At the end of the eight preliminary rounds we were standing in 6th position, having had only one loss and seven wins. The octo-final presented no problems but in the quarter finals we were up against the only team who had beaten us during the preliminary rounds. Alas, we were not to get our revenge and went down to an excellent team who finally won the entire tournament. We remained in 6th position but were delighted that all five of our speakers finished in the top 50, with Iqbal Kassam in the top 10.

2007-2008 · USA

Quarter-finalists

Under the direction of coach Martin Poirier, the team finished the preliminary rounds in fourth place out of 39 countries, and after falling to Scotland in the quarter finals, placed sixth. The team consisted of Sam Greene (NFLD), Daniel Lewis (NS), Tim Abdulla (MB),  Kees de Ridder (AB) and David Miko (AB).

2006-2007 · Korea

Semi-finalists

Team Canada attending the WSDC in Seoul included: Andrew Rusk (captain), Sean Stefanik (QC), Sean Barron, Kirsten Lundell-Smith and Caroline Ness. The team ended the preliminary rounds with a 6-2 record and defeated Slovenia (octos) and South Africa (quarters) before being ousted by Singapore in the semi-finals. They placed 4th overall at that Worlds, coached by Martin Poirier. The tournament was also a blast for the debaters. Some of the highlights were visiting the De-Militarized Zone, peering over the border into North Korea and climbing the Seoul Tower in Korea.

2005-2006 · Wales

Semi-finalists

This team was selected following the 2005 National Seminar in Saskatoon and broke to semi-finals in Cardiff, Wales. Team members included: Christine Wadsworth (ON), Sheldon McCormick (NS), Madeleine Ballard (QC), Blair MacDonald (NS) and Michael Beeler (NS). The 2006 team was coached by Harold Kyte

2004-2005 · Calgary, Canada

Quarter-finalists

Samara Fox (QC), Alex Blank (QC), Michael Beeler (NS), Sarah Mortazavi (BC), and Julian Prokopetz (MB) reached the quarter-finals at WSDC 2005, held that year in Calgary.

Christine Wadsworth (ON) and Sheldon McCormick (NS) were the team’s alternates. The 2005 team was coached by Harold Kyte of Nova Scotia.

2003-2004 · Germany

Adam Goldenberg (BC), Neesha Rao (NS), Karim Jivraj (ON), Dana Hayward (AB), and Alex Blank (QC) represented Canada at WSDC 2004 in Stuttgart, Germany.

Selected at the World Qualifier in Newfoundland in April 2003, it was a truly diverse team, with students from coast to coast and all the territory in between. The 2004 team was coached by Harold Kyte of Nova Scotia.

2002-2003 · Peru

Quarter-finalists

Adam Goldenberg (BC), Teddy Harrison (BC), Mike Sabet (ON; captain), Ali Dewji (ON), and Akil Alleyne (QC) reached the quarter-finals at WSDC 2003 in Lima, Peru.

After finishing the preliminary rounds eighth of 25 teams, the team beat Greece in the octo-finals before bowing out to Scotland on a 3-2 split decision. The 2003 team was placed eighth in the final standings.