Indee Individual Events Speech Team Claims first place - 2017
Congratulations to the IHS Individual Events Speech Team for winning the WaMaC West speech tournament Saturday, February 11th at Clear Creek- Amana.
We had 33 entries and 32 entries placed in the top five, which scored team points. We placed 1st in 7 of the 14 events. Speech team finished with 139 points. Center Point-Urbana was second with 100 points
Those who placed first include: Caleb Kremer in Poetry and Improvisation, Taylor Justason in Prose, Grace Bertelli in Spontaneous Speaking, Catherine Lake in Public Address, Spenser Rothman in After Dinner Speaking, and Ben Chavez in Radio News Announcing.
2nd place performers were Jordan Hogan in Acting, Karlie Michael in Public Address, Taylor Justason in Literary Program, Rachel DeBoer in Expository Address, Marissa Robinson in Reviewing, Emily Nejdl in Storytelling, and Lizzie Lake in Poetry.
3rd place performers were Ryan Adams in Spontaneous Speaking and After Dinner Speaking, Emily Nejdl in Prose, Faith Oien in Storytelling, and Karlie Michael in Poetry, and Grace Bertelli in Prose.
Those in 4th place were Morgan Pelton in Radio News Announcing, Sophia Meador in Spontaneous Speaking and Original Oratory, Caroline Solon in Acting, Marissa Robinson in Literary Program, Julia Hurley in Reviewing, Kira Reed in Solo Musical Theater, and Autumn Diesburg in Storytelling.
5th place performers included Melanie Linsley in Radio News Announcing, Lizzie Lake in Public Address, Jordan Hogan in Literary Program, and Kira Reed in After Dinner Speaking.
Thanks to Carole Franz, Buffy Garrigus, and Dan Putz who coach the IE speech team.
Congratulations to Dan Putz who is retiring from speech coaching after 40 years as head coach.