Sophia Robertson is an incoming Harvard student studying government with four years of competitive PF debate experience on the Cambridge Rindge and Latin team, as co-captain her junior and senior years. In her time on the circuit, she has earned several bids to the Tournament of Champions, including semifinals at the Harvard debate tournament and elimination rounds at Yale, Penn, Princeton, and Lexington Invitational tournaments. She also finaled the Massachusetts state championship and placed as top speaker in the state. In 2022, she created the Cambridge Pre-Debate Summer Program, a one-week program for local middle schoolers to engage with debate and build the pipeline for the high school team. As a debater and a coach, she’s interested in partner dynamics to adapt for lay and tech debate, and loves to coach effective lay appeal and theories of communication.