Top Speakers
| Year | Speaker | School |
| 2012 | Ben Reid | McKendree University |
| 2011 | Max Alderman | University of Nevada, Reno |
| 2010 | Will van Treuren | University of Colorado, Boulder |
| 2009 | MaryAnn Almeida | Willamette University |
| 2008 | Kevin Calderwood | Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
| 2007 | Ryan Lawrence | University of California, Berkeley |
| 2006 | Joelle Perry | Western Kentucky University |
| 2005 | Marie Tenney | University of South Carolina |
| 2004 | Ian Samuel | Truman State University |
| 2003 | Kyle DeBeer | Colorado College |
| 2002 | Audrey Mink | California State University, Long Beach |
| 2001 | Katie Angliss | Point Loma Nazarene University |
| 2000 | Andrew Vogt | Colorado College |
| 1999 | Bill Herman | Colorado State University |
| 1998 | Daniel Nelson | Regis University |
| 1997 | Marcus Paroske | Regis University |
| 1996 | Ryan Levy | Rice University |
| 1995 | Nick Coburn-Palo | Weber State University |
| 1994 | Andrea Roth | University of New Mexico |
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