PRACTICE SCHEDULE AND INFORMATION
Location for all practices: CIHS Rooms 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 145A
Start Date - Information / Sign-Up Meeting: Monday, November 24th.
This first meeting will be done by 4:30. Let your ride know.
Practice Times Starting December 1st: 3:30-6:00
Arrange for your ride to pick you up at the high school at 5:30 unless you have a late coach practice that runs until 6:00.
Practice Dates:
(Mondays and Wednesdays are official team practices; other days by appointment)
December- 3, 8, 10, 15, 17, 22
January- 5, 7, 12, 14, 21, 26, 28
February- 2, 4, 9, 11, 18, 23, 25
March- 2, 4, 16, 18, 23, 25, 30
April- 1, 8, Section Tournament
The following practices are for those who qualify for state or who qualified for NIETOC or NSDA:
April 13, 15, 20, 22
29 large group practice dates before the Section 7AA Speech Tournament.
7 individual coach practices - must be completed before March 25th, 2025
TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
Jan. 10: *Mounds Park Academy/Two Rivers Tournament - at Two Rivers - (NSDA/NIETOC- only
those interested in competing in NSDA/NIETOC tournaments will go to this
tournament)
Jan. 17: St. Francis - (Varsity)
*Willmar - (NSDA/NIETOC)
Jan. 24: *Chanhassen
*M.O.S.S. (Online Speech Tournament Series -explained below) 1: January 25th-30th
Jan. 31: *Irondale Medieval Melee
Feb. 7: *Duluth Denfeld
*M.O.S.S. 2: February 8th-13th
Feb. 14: Mille Lacs (Onamia) - (Varsity)
*Two Rivers - (NSDA/NIETOC)
Feb. 21: *Forest Lake
*M.O.S.S. 3: February 22nd-27th
Feb. 28: Princeton
Mar. 7: *Sauk Rapids
M.O.S.S. 4: March 8th-13th
Mar. 14: NO TOURNAMENT - 2nd Weekend of Spring Break
Mar. 21: *Cambridge-Isanti
*M.O.S.S. 5/State: March 22nd-27th.
March 24: Mississippi 8 Conference Tournament- North Branch
March 27-28: NSDA Northern Lights District Qualifier - (NSDA/NIETOC)
April 4: NO TOURNAMENT - EASTER WEEKEND
April 11: Section 7AA at Duluth Denfeld
April 24- Class AA State Park Center High School
April 25- Class A State Park Center High School
May 8-10: NIETOC in Shakopee, MN - (NSDA/NIETOC for anyone who qualified for NIETOC)
June 14-19: NSDA National Tournament in Richmond, VA - For those who qualified for the NSDA National Tournament
Tournaments with an asterisk * are NIETOC bid tournaments.
M.O.S.S. tournaments are the Minnesota Online Speech Series tournaments. You record a video of your speech and submit it by the deadline for the first day; the rest of the days listed for that week are for the judges to view your video and judge it for each round. Results are posted on the last day.
Dates highlighted in red- you must be available to compete at these tournaments if you wish to earn your varsity letter for the season.