The Nick Watts Debate Foundation

01/09/2026

As the debate season starts to open up, keep us in mind! The kids we have helped over the last several years are already blossoming into successful college debaters and soon to be graduates! How time flies. As mentioned in our previous post, one of our recipients is a 6A state champion!

Good luck to all the debaters this season!

23/03/2026

Today we were honored to contribute $1000 towards Little Rock Central Speech & Debate overall budget to keep up with much more funded programs.

Their success is truly an accomplishment. The Foundation's goal is to provide funding for incredibly talented young competitors to further enable them to become excellent.

This team just so happened to win the 2026 Harvard National Tournament -- to those who did not know, Nick was a debate coach at Harvard for several years. It was an institution he respected very much.

To the coaches (one of whom's husband knew Nick and went to debate camp with me) and students, thank you for carrying on the legacy of my brother, our champion! (I think I have that right -correct me if I'm wrong).

Keep winning debate tournaments!!!!

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Help them beat their goal!

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23/03/2026

Update after a couple of years at this! *Link below*

- We were able to send two students who were junior TOC contestants to debate camps of their choosing, making large contributions to both and coordinating with camp directors to reduce costs as much as possible (Thank you to everyone!)

- Fund the entire deficit for student who applied for financial aid unable to attend OU's inaugural debate camp;

-Sent a promising young debater to Dartmouth Debate;

- Helped fund two UDL programs, one team specifically in the last week from Little Rock Central Speech and Debate Team, which is beating up on all the heavy, more funded teams;

-Helped numerous other students make the gap from their available funding to what he or she needs to make it a reality.

We are a small group and want to keep this up! Any assistance is very appreciated but please just keep checking in to see the updates we are hopeful to post as these recipients continue to grow up and do incredible things.

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