Ethics Bowl Goes National

Congrats are in order for Seattle University’s Ethics Bowl team, which made it all the way to the semifinals at the 2025 Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl National Competition, held Feb. 22–23 in Norfolk, Va.

Sponsored by the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Ethics Bowl is a debate-style competition focused on applied philosophy. Teams spend months studying subjects that tackle real-world ethical challenges in education, politics and business and then use political philosophy and moral theory to answer complex questions about the cases in front of a panel of judges.

Meet the Ethics Bowl team: Aicha Toure, Lindee Cutler, Callie Wilker, Azul Davila, Mariam Gohar, Jacob Caddali and Kimi Yokoyama.

Out of the 200 teams participating in the regional competition, only 36 earned bids to the national competition. This marked the eighth consecutive year that SU’s team made it to nationals.

“The level of scholarship that our students displayed was incredible,” says Assistant Professor Benjamin Howe, PhD, who is the director of the Matteo Ricci Institute and in his 12th year as the Ethics Bowl coach. “I just want to say how proud of the team I am.”

Learn more about the 2025 Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl National Competition.