Welcome to the DAV Website
The DAV is a non-profit association which exists to promote debate. It
is the peak debating body in Victoria and runs large competitions for
adults and for schools across Victoria. It provides training and
resources for debaters, teachers and adjudicators.
The Swannie Awards are awarded to the speaker in each region and grade who has the highest average speaker score after completing at least three debates during the year.
The average is calculated solely on speaker scores, and is not affected by the best speaker awards that are announced at the end of each debate.
Competition Swannie Awards
The speaker with the highest average score in each grade across all 20 regions is awarded a Competition Swannie Award. The top three speakers in each grade are nominated for the award, and the winner will be announced at the ceremony.
2011
The 2011 Swannie Awards were held at Federation Square on the 31st of October. The following students won awards:
| Region | Grade | Name | School |
| Ballarat | A | Ester Koelle-Mays | Ballarat High School |
| Ballarat | B | Mahima Tellambura | Ballarat & Clarendon College |
| Ballarat | C | Lachlan Blackwood | Ballarat & Clarendon College |
| Ballarat | D | Remi Bilson | Ballarat High School |
| Ballarat | D | Thomas Gibney | Ballarat & Clarendon College |
| Bendigo | A | Kirby Vearing | Girton Grammar School |
| Bendigo | B | Lauren Shearman | Girton Grammar School |
| Bendigo | B | Rachel Caines | Girton Grammar School |
| Bendigo | C | Thomas Savage | Eaglehawk Secondary College |
| Bendigo | D | Sarah Seery | Bendigo South East College |
| Berwick | A | Hamish Curran | St Paul's Anglican Grammar School |
| Berwick | B | Stephanie McKelvie | St Paul's Anglican Grammar School |
| Berwick | C | Bridget Backhouse | Mater Christi College |
| Berwick | D | David Terlato | Beaconhills College |
| Berwick | D | Pip Simpson | St Margaret's School |
| Berwick | D | Sarah Lindsay | Mary MacKillop College |
| Brighton | A | Andrew Bisset | Brighton Grammar School |
| Brighton | B | Jackson Bilu | Brighton Grammar School |
| Brighton | C | Ehren Kevin Wyatt | Sandringham College |
| Brighton | C | Rebecca Parish | Firbank Grammar School |
| Brighton | D | Paula Reyes | St Leonard's College |
| Camberwell | A | Alex Gregory-Allen | Camberwell Grammar School |
| Camberwell | B | Ben Ditchfield | Trinity Grammar School |
| Camberwell | C | Ruby Wade | Carey Baptist Grammar School |
| Camberwell | D | Andrew Della Gatta | Koonung Secondary College |
| Caulfield | A | Zebedee Nicholls | Wesley College |
| Caulfield | B | Amelia Barrow | Kilvington Girls Grammar |
| Caulfield | B | Ellie Jamonts | Star of the Sea College |
| Caulfield | C | Raphael Morris | The King David School |
| Caulfield | D | Talya Dorfan | Leibler Yavneh College |
| Coburg | A | Bethel Belay | Mercy Diocesan College |
| Coburg | B | Eibhlin Oakley | Coburg Senior High School |
| Coburg | B | Tara O'Toole | Penola Catholic College |
| Coburg | C | Aziza Mohamed | Australian International Academy |
| Coburg | D | Kalani Dharmapriya | Pascoe Vale Girls' Sec College |
| Essendon | A | Cale Dobrosak | Bacchus Marsh Grammar |
| Essendon | A | Doan Nguyen | Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School |
| Essendon | A | Ziya Bulus | Overnewton Anglican College |
| Essendon | B | Luke Reynolds | Simonds Catholic College |
| Essendon | C | Rojina Mansour | Keilor Downs Secondary College |
| Essendon | D | Flynne Tytherleigh | Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School |
| Geelong | A | Claire Oakley | Kardinia International College |
| Geelong | A | Patrick Kennedy | Geelong Grammar School |
| Geelong | A | William Birkett | Kardinia International College |
| Geelong | B | Kedar Abhyankar | Geelong Grammar School |
| Geelong | C | Holly Vanderpol | Geelong High School |
| Geelong | D | Baxter Lyons | The Geelong College (Preparatory School) |
| Glen Waverley | A | Andrew Roberts | Caulfield Grammar School |
| Glen Waverley | B | Beatrice Duong | John Monash Science School |
| Glen Waverley | C | Emily Sarah Kayes | Sacred Heart Girls College |
| Glen Waverley | D | Nilushini Jayaratne | Mt Waverley Secondary College |
| Hawthorn | A | Cara Goldthorpe | Methodist Ladies College |
| Hawthorn | B | Alice Lloyd | Lauriston Girls' School |
| Hawthorn | C | Madeleine Tehan | Loreto Mandeville Hall Toorak |
| Hawthorn | D | Nathan Hotchkin-van Neuren | Scotch College |
| Ivanhoe | A | Erin Phillips | Ivanhoe Grammar School |
| Ivanhoe | B | Martin Ditmann | Northcote High School |
| Ivanhoe | C | Tina Huang | Box Hill High School |
| Ivanhoe | D | Leah Milburn-Clark | East Doncaster Secondary College |
| Keysborough | A | Ailsa Wallace | Haileybury College |
| Keysborough | B | Ryan Howard | Gippsland Grammar School |
| Keysborough | C | Nicholas Cross | St James College |
| Keysborough | D | Dean Antos | Haileybury College |
| Mount Eliza | A | Rosie Cham | Toorak College |
| Mount Eliza | B | Camille Awburn | Toorak College |
| Mount Eliza | C | Lauren Witney | Mount Eliza Secondary College |
| Mount Eliza | D | Danielle Holden | Dromana Secondary College |
| Mount Eliza | D | Jake Miller-Randle | The Peninsula School |
| Ringwood | A | Charlotte Black | Tintern Schools |
| Ringwood | A | Jessica Motyer | Yarra Valley Grammar School |
| Ringwood | A | Michael Allan | Yarra Valley Grammar School |
| Ringwood | B | Daniel Schulz | Tintern Schools |
| Ringwood | C | Maddison Alford | Mt Lilydale Mercy College |
| Ringwood | D | Rhys Bennett | Southwood Boys Grammar School |
| South Yarra | A | Alasdair Nicholson | Melbourne Grammar School |
| South Yarra | A | Anna Schneider | Mac.Robertson Girls' High School |
| South Yarra | A | Calum Walker | Melbourne High School |
| South Yarra | A | Fergus Peace | Melbourne Grammar School |
| South Yarra | B | Jai Watkins | Melbourne High School |
| South Yarra | C | Sameer Sharma | Melbourne High School |
| South Yarra | D | Jessica Ding | Mac.Robertson Girls' High School |
| Toorak | A | Lachlan O'Connor | Xavier College |
| Toorak | B | Thomas Morrison | St Kevin's College |
| Toorak | C | James Maccarrone | St Kevin's College |
| Toorak | D | Seamus Horan | Xavier College |
| Watsonia | A | Ian Collins | Eltham College of Education |
| Watsonia | B | Aidan Puglielli | Eltham High School |
| Watsonia | B | Jessica Skerry | Bundoora Secondary College |
| Watsonia | C | Rachael Fenech | St Monica's College |
| Watsonia | D | Zaahirah Ali | Thomastown Secondary College |
| Williamstown | A | Emina Hajdarevic | Al-Taqwa College |
| Williamstown | B | Jack Fryer | Emmanuel College |
| Williamstown | C | Tessa Marshall | Westbourne Grammar School |
| Williamstown | D | Yvette Gasser | Westbourne Grammar School |
The Competition Swannie Awards (the highest-scoring speakers in each grade across all regions) were awarded to:
| Grade | Name | School |
| A | Zebedee Nicholls | Wesley College |
| B | Ben Ditchfield | Trinity Grammar School |
| C | Madeleine Tehan | Loreto Mandeville Hall |
| D | Nathan Hotchkin-van Neuren | Scotch College |
2010
The 2010 Swannie Awards were held at Federation Square on the 26th of October. The following students won awards:
| Region | Grade | Name | School |
| Ballarat | A | Dean Bloetz | Damascus College |
| Ballarat | B | Tiffany McIntosh | Ballarat & Clarendon College |
| Ballarat | C | Rachel Tattersall | Highview College |
| Ballarat | C | Aisha Lloyd-Bonney | Ballarat High School |
| Ballarat | D | Remi Bilson | Ballarat High School |
| Bendigo | A | Shelley Mose | Rochester Secondary College |
| Bendigo | C | Rachel Caines | Girton Grammar School |
| Bendigo | D | Josh Savage | Eaglehawk Secondary College |
| Bendigo | D | Tom Savage | Eaglehawk Secondary College |
| Bendigo | D | Erinn Sait | Catholic College Bendigo |
| Bendigo | D | Sam Brodie | Notre Dame College |
| Bendigo | D | Sharon Robinson | Rochester Secondary College |
| Berwick | A | Rebecca Irvine | St Margaret's School |
| Berwick | B | Dannielle Foster | Newhaven College |
| Berwick | C | Stephanie McKelvie | St Paul's Anglican Grammar School |
| Berwick | D | Jordan Sarkissian | Gleneagles Secondary College |
| Berwick | D | William Browne | St Francis Xavier College |
| Brighton | A | Ed Mosley | Brighton Grammar School |
| Brighton | B | Andrew Bisset | Brighton Grammar School |
| Brighton | C | Noa Black | Beth Rivkah Ladies College |
| Brighton | D | Arthur Masion | Elwood College |
| Brighton | D | India Mauritzen | Elwood College |
| Camberwell | A | Jonathan Chandler | Camberwell Grammar School |
| Camberwell | B | Daniel Youssef | Koonung Secondary College |
| Camberwell | C | Ben Ditchfield | Trinity Grammar School |
| Camberwell | D | David Liu | Camberwell Grammar School |
| Caulfield | A | Lewis Hirst | St Michael's Grammar School |
| Caulfield | B | Matthew Lesh | St Michael's Grammar School |
| Caulfield | C | Tahl Zagroon | McKinnon Secondary College |
| Caulfield | D | Chilli Anderson | Wesley College |
| Coburg | A | Rosemary Barr | Princes Hill Secondary College |
| Coburg | B | Jake Farquhaison | Penola Catholic College |
| Coburg | C | Rose Baulch | Academy of Mary Immaculate |
| Coburg | D | Aziza Mohamad | Australian International Academy |
| Essendon | A | Elyse Wurm | Overnewton Anglican Community College |
| Essendon | B | Francesco Spanti | St Bernard's College |
| Essendon | C | Deon Tsakis | St Bernard's College |
| Essendon | D | Hannah Steel | Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School |
| Geelong | A | Joel Loth | Belmont High School |
| Geelong | A | Jennifer Robertson | Grovedale College |
| Geelong | B | Lucy Harkin | Geelong Grammar School |
| Geelong | B | William Birkett | Kardinia International College |
| Geelong | C | Elliot Watkins | Geelong Grammar School |
| Geelong | D | Meg Eileen Carroll | Sacred Heart College Newtown |
| Glen Waverley | A | Jessica Auld | Avila College |
| Glen Waverley | B | Andrew Sorbello | Mazenod College |
| Glen Waverley | B | William Sexton | Wesley College |
| Glen Waverley | C | Beatrice Duong | John Monash Science School |
| Glen Waverley | C | Samantha Potter | Wesley College |
| Glen Waverley | C | Tessa Blight | Avila College |
| Glen Waverley | D | Cheryl Thomas | Sacred Heart Girls College |
| Hawthorn | A | Paul Mitchell | Scotch College |
| Hawthorn | A | Sophie Merrick | Loreto Mandeville Hall |
| Hawthorn | B | Joanna Pidcock | Loreto Mandeville Hall |
| Hawthorn | C | Tyrone Connell | Scotch College |
| Hawthorn | D | Freya Willis | Methodist Ladies College |
| Ivanhoe | A | Christian Slattery | East Doncaster Secondary College |
| Ivanhoe | B | Luke Corcoran | Northcote High School |
| Ivanhoe | C | Madelaine Pittle | Ivanhoe Girls Grammar School |
| Ivanhoe | D | Darcy Cornwallis | Northcote High School |
| Keysborough | A | Judy Chow | Mentone Girls Grammar School |
| Keysborough | A | James Gray | Gippsland Grammar School |
| Keysborough | B | Megan Shellie | Mentone Girls Grammar School |
| Keysborough | B | Britt Jeffs | Gippsland Grammar School |
| Keysborough | C | Maddie Crombie | Gippsland Grammar School |
| Keysborough | D | Hannah Vuong | Haileybury College |
| Keysborough | D | Amelia Vuillermin | Gippsland Grammar School |
| Mount Eliza | A | Courtney Hart | John Paul College |
| Mount Eliza | B | Aiden McKee | Carrum Downs Secondary College |
| Mount Eliza | B | Juliette Mililli | Padua College |
| Mount Eliza | C | Rochelle Brown | John Paul College |
| Mount Eliza | D | Kimberley Ruffels | Padua College |
| Mount Eliza | D | Cassie Nolan | Elisabeth Murdoch College |
| Mount Eliza | D | Gabriel Scomazzon | Woodleigh School |
| Mount Eliza | D | Samantha Hopton | Elisabeth Murdoch College |
| Mount Eliza | D | Shannon McCartney | Elisabeth Murdoch College |
| Mount Eliza | D | Sam Saunders | Woodleigh School |
| Ringwood | A | Rengan Vijayakumar | Yarra Valley Grammar |
| Ringwood | B | Tessa van der Wert | Tintern Senior College |
| Ringwood | C | Ebony Selers | Our Lady of Sion College |
| Ringwood | D | Frances Rowlands | Croydon Secondary College |
| South Yarra | A | Nikhil Kumar Puppala | Melbourne High School |
| South Yarra | B | Swetha Prabhakaran | Mac.Robertson Girls' High School |
| South Yarra | C | Thomas Posa | Melbourne High School |
| South Yarra | C | Joash Arulprakasam | Melbourne High School |
| South Yarra | D | Dhanya Baby | Mac.Robertson Girls' High School |
| South Yarra | D | Elizabeth Phillips | Melbourne Girls' College |
| Toorak | A | Benjamin Needleman | Bialik College |
| Toorak | B | Michael Woodburn | Xavier College |
| Toorak | C | Thomas Morrison | St Kevin's College |
| Toorak | D | Daniel Target | Melbourne Grammar School |
| Watsonia | A | Paul Byrnes | St Helena Secondary College |
| Watsonia | B | James Young | Loyola College |
| Watsonia | C | Jessica Rose Densham | Loyola College |
| Watsonia | D | Sean Kempen | Parade College |
| Williamstown | A | Scott Ficnerski | Braybrook College |
| Williamstown | B | Benjamin McKenzie-Sirett | Emmanuel College |
| Williamstown | B | Jessica Oakley | Williamstown High School |
| Williamstown | C | Lachlan Gell | Williamstown High School |
| Williamstown | D | Madeline Ryan | Westbourne Grammar School |
| Williamstown | D | Abhi Amirthalingam | Westbourne Grammar School |
The Competition Swannie Awards (the highest-scoring speakers in each grade across all regions) were awarded to:
A grade: Ben Needleman (Bialik College), Judy Chow (Mentone Girls Grammar School) & Rebecca Irvine (St Margaret's School)
B grade: Michael Woodburn (Xavier College)
C grade: Tyrone Connell (Scotch College)
D grade: Remi Bilson (Ballarat High School)
2009
The 2009 Swannie Awards were held at Federation Square on the 1st of September. The following students won awards:
| Region | Grade | First | Surname | School |
| Ballarat | C | Bridget | Firth | Damascus College |
| Ballarat | D | Kieren | O'Riley | St Patrick's College |
| Ballarat | D | Lucia | Jamison | Ballarat and Clarendon College |
| Ballarat | D | Peter | Oakley | St Patrick's College |
| Ballarat | D | Charles | Robinson | St Patrick's College |
| Ballarat | VCE | Casey | Marin | Loreto College |
| Bendigo | C | Lara | Seddon | Bendigo South East Secondary College |
| Bendigo | D | Georgia | Koroneos | Notre Dame College |
| Bendigo | VCE | Edwin | Spark | Bendigo Senior Secondary College |
| Berwick | A | Aidan | Delaney | Mary MacKillop Catholic Regional College |
| Berwick | A | Hayden | Ostrom-Brown | St Francis Xavier College |
| Berwick | B | Aaron | Houben | Haileybury College |
| Berwick | B | Rebecca | Irvine | St Margaret's School |
| Berwick | C | Loughlin | Turpin | Hampton Park Secondary College |
| Berwick | C | Cassie | Gawley | St Francis Xavier College |
| Berwick | C | Hamish | Curran | St Paul's Anglican Grammar School |
| Berwick | D | Tristan | Zuidema | Mary MacKillop Catholic Regional College |
| Berwick | D | Tejasvini | Bhuvan | Fountain Gate Secondary College |
| Berwick | D | Francesca | Côdd | St Thomas Aquinas College |
| Brighton | A | Gregorio | Pettazzi | Brighton Grammar School |
| Brighton | A | Matt | Chase | Mentone Grammar School |
| Brighton | B | Romy | Mondschein | Firbank Grammar School |
| Brighton | B | Jarryd | Brereton | St Bede's College |
| Brighton | C | Michael | Buck | St Bede's College |
| Brighton | D | Finbar | Larkin | St Bede's College |
| Camberwell | A | Alice | Meredith | Carey Baptist Grammar School |
| Camberwell | B | Ben | McMahon | Carey Baptist Grammar School |
| Camberwell | C | Alexander | Gregory-Allen | Camberwell Grammar School |
| Camberwell | C | Wallace | Huang | Trinity Grammar School |
| Camberwell | D | Cassandra | Cohen | Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School |
| Caulfield | A | Claire | Kelly | Wesley College |
| Caulfield | A | Michael | Stern | Caulfield Grammar School |
| Caulfield | B | Chriselle | D'Souza | Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College |
| Caulfield | C | Jake | Antmann | McKinnon Secondary College |
| Caulfield | D | Amelia | Barrow | Kilvington Baptist Girls Grammar School |
| Coburg | A | Terryna | D'Souza | Mercy Diocesan College |
| Coburg | B | Sumayya | Azzubaidi | Preston Girls Secondary College |
| Coburg | C | Holly | Moore | Brunswick Secondary College |
| Coburg | C | Patrick | Rehill | Princes Hill Secondary College |
| Coburg | D | Claudia | Lombard | Academy of Mary Immaculate |
| Essendon | A | David | Baldi | St Bernard's College |
| Essendon | A | Meghan | McCormack | Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School |
| Essendon | B | Raquel | Potenza | Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School |
| Essendon | C | Gavan | Chan | Keilor Downs College |
| Essendon | D | Krithika | Venkatraman | Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School |
| Geelong | A | Mitchell | Dye | The Geelong College |
| Geelong | B | Mark | McDonald | Belmont High School |
| Geelong | C | William | Birkett | Kardinia International College |
| Geelong | D | Jackson | McKendrick | St Joseph's College |
| Glen Waverley | A | Elissa | Young | Caulfield Grammar School |
| Glen Waverley | B | Sean | Habing-Payne | Wesley College |
| Glen Waverley | C | Megan | Thompson | Mount Waverley Secondary College |
| Glen Waverley | D | Sarthak | Tandon | Glen Waverley Secondary College |
| Hawthorn | A | Nick | Yates | Scotch College |
| Hawthorn | B | Allan | Quanchi | Scotch College |
| Hawthorn | B | Daniel | Tram | Scotch College |
| Hawthorn | C | Siobhan | Cooke | Loreto Mandeville Hall |
| Hawthorn | C | Andrew | Elder | Scotch College |
| Hawthorn | D | Madeleine | Tehan | Loreto Mandeville Hall |
| Ivanhoe | A | Constantine | Mimigiannis | East Doncaster Secondary College |
| Ivanhoe | B | Alice | Boer-Endacott | Ivanhoe Grammar School |
| Ivanhoe | C | Mithran | Vyravipillai | Ivanhoe Grammar School |
| Ivanhoe | D | Lara | Bester | Ivanhoe Grammar School |
| Keysborough | A | Duncan | Wallace | Haileybury College |
| Keysborough | B | Benjamin | McElwee | Haileybury College |
| Keysborough | C | Britt | Jeffs | Gippsland Grammar School |
| Keysborough | D | Hannah | Vuong | Haileybury College |
| Mount Eliza | A | Jake | Sparshott | John Paul College |
| Mount Eliza | B | Rachael | Smoker | Rosebud Secondary College |
| Mount Eliza | C | Anthony | Kyriacou | The Peninsula School |
| Mount Eliza | C | Allison | Ballantyne | Woodleigh School |
| Mount Eliza | D | Rochelle | Brown | John Paul College |
| Ringwood | A | Daniella | Cox | Tintern Girls Grammar School |
| Ringwood | B | Rengan | Vijayakumar | Yarra Valley Grammar |
| Ringwood | C | Michael | Allan | Yarra Valley Grammar |
| Ringwood | D | Michael | Honey | Yarra Valley Grammar |
| South Yarra | A | Bebe | D'Souza | Mac.Robertson Girls' High School |
| South Yarra | A | Rishada | Cassim | Mac.Robertson Girls' High School |
| South Yarra | B | Henry | Hamilton | Melbourne High School |
| South Yarra | C | Bridget | Bourke | Mac.Robertson Girls' High School |
| South Yarra | D | Sarah | Brown | Mac.Robertson Girls' High School |
| Toorak | A | James | Leach | St Kevin's College |
| Toorak | B | Samantha | French | Genazzano FCJ College |
| Toorak | C | Cameron | Venus | Melbourne Grammar School |
| Toorak | D | Rachel | Tie | Sacre Coeur |
| Toorak | D | Jasmine | Arandha | Sacre Coeur |
| Toorak | D | Tom | Morrison | St Kevin's College |
| Watsonia | A | Lachlan | Campbell | St Helena Secondary College |
| Watsonia | A | Megan | Potashnyk | St Helena Secondary College |
| Watsonia | B | Stephanie | Cairns | St Helena Secondary College |
| Watsonia | C | Roisin | Toohey | Santa Maria College |
| Watsonia | D | Renee | Utting | Marymede Catholic College |
| Williamstown | A | Bircan | Houssein | Braybrook College |
| Williamstown | B | Georgia | Clooney | Williamstown High School |
| Williamstown | C | Shahn | Beasley | Williamstown High School |
| Williamstown | D | Emina | Hajdarevic | Al-Taqwa College |
The Competition Swannie Awards (the highest-scoring speakers in each grade across all regions) were awarded to:
A Grade: Rishada Cassim and Bebe D'Souza (Mac.Robertson Girls' High School)
B Grade: Rengan Vijayakumar (Yarra Valley Grammar)
C Grade: Siobhan Cooke (Loreto Mandeville Hall) and Andrew Elder (Scotch College)
D Grade: Lara Bester (Ivanhoe Grammar School)