Rose Beilman
Pratt Tribune
After competing at the West Kansas National Qualifying Tournament, all of Pratt High s forensics kids who made it into semi-finals will be going to nationals competition. On Friday, April 16th and Saturday, April 17th, sophomore Alyssa Green and senior Hogan Thompson competed through five rounds to earn 1st at the qualifier, which will propel them into the NSDA virtual nationals tourney.
Other students also earned top medals to qualify for nationals. Senior Colby Barradas earned #2 in Program Oral Interpretation (POI) and #3 in Humorous Interpretation, but since he had to choose only one primary event to bring (part of the NSDA rules), he chose POI. This senior made it to NSDA s virtual competition last year in 2020 at the national level, and with a Dramatic Interp, he made it past all of the preliminary rounds and into the top 60 nationwide. He s hoping to best that placement this year with his POI about the pandemic.
Members of Lawrence Free State High School’s speech and forensics team are heading to national tournaments once again. The team will also be looking to retain its state title next month as well.
Kelly Thompson, Free State’s speech and debate coach, recently told the Journal-World in an email that the team’s students qualified for 17 events at the 2021 National Individual Events Tournament of Champions. The students qualified for the tournament through their individual performances at invitational tournaments throughout the season. The event will be May 4-8.
Thompson said that this year’s number of events was the most in school history, surpassing the previous record of 14 in 2019.
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After competing in two tournaments over the weekend, the Dodge City High School forensics team will be sending five more students to the state tournament after bringing home 12 medals in Wichita East and Garden City tournaments.
According to DCHS forensics coach Johnny Dunlap, the forensics team competed in the Wichita East Blue Aces Forensics Invitational from Wednesday, Feb. 3, through Saturday, Feb. 6.
The team then competed in an all-live-streaming event hosted on Feb. 8 by Garden City. This tournament was similar to their first tournament in that the students competed both asynchronously via recorded performances, then in a mix of live-streamed events and finals on Saturday, Dunlap said of the Wichita East tournament, where the forensics team won four medals.
The Perham speech team competed in a large tournament hosted by Duluth-Denfeld on Saturday, Feb. 6.
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Sophomore Sadie Shippee, left, and senior Emily Kirchenwitz, right, finished second in duo and received their first NIETOC bid. (Submitted photo)
The Perham speech team competed in a large tournament hosted by Duluth-Denfeld on Saturday, Feb. 6, with 48 schools from Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota, and more than 650 competitors. The junior high team competed on Feb. 8 at a tournament hosted by Cass-Lake Bena. Only 7th-9th graders are allowed to compete at a junior high meet.
The entire team will be gearing up for their next tournament on Saturday, Feb. 20 hosted by Underwood.