Halstead ended its season with a 3rd place state trophy! Elena Flask defended her Oration title, finishing as State Champion! Mattea Weber was 5th in Prose and Isabelle Loucks was 5th in Serious Solo.
Congratulations to all of our other students, many of whom made it to semifinals and many others just barely missing out!
Lucia Maillo Francoli - 7th in Oration (semifinalist)
Isabelle Loucks - 9th in Poetry (semifinalist)
Echo Chastain - 9th in POI (semifinalist)
Clara Lewis - 9th in Prose (semifinalist) and 22nd in Poetry
Olivia Rizza - 10th in Prose (semifinalist) and 12th in POI (semifinalist)
Jayden Murray - 13th in Serious Solo
Hannah Detweiler - 14th in Extemp
Mattea Weber - 15th in Serious Solo
Caden Harmon - 15th in Extemp
Liberty Hart - 15th in Informative
Re Nedich - 26th in Extemp
Thanks to Olivia, Clara, Isabelle, and Elena on all their work as seniors!
Halstead finished second place in team sweepstakes at the Central Kansas League forensics meet today, just 8 points behind league champs, Pratt! Congratulations to:
Jayden Murray: 6th in IDA
Echo Chastain: 6th in IDA and 2nd in POI
Caden Harmon: 5th in Prose and 4th in Extemp
Olivia Rizza: 4th in POI
Clara Lewis: 4th in Prose and 3rd in Poetry
Liberty Hart: 4th in Impromptu and 2nd in Informative
Hannah Detweiler: 3rd in Extemp
Mattea Weber: 4th in SSA and 2nd in Prose
Lucia Maillo Francoli: 2nd in Oration
Elena Flask: 1st in Oration
Isabelle Loucks: 1st in Poetry
Students will now participate in auditions for the State team this week before a final tune-up meet April 30.
Congratulations to:
Re Nedich: 2nd in Prose
Liberty Hart: 4th in Impromptu
Immie Smith: 5th in Serious Solo
We sent four students to Haven Monday evening, some of whom tried out events they do not typically compete in. Congratulations to:
Clara Lewis: 2nd in Serious Solo and 1st in IDA
Olivia Rizza: 1st in POI and 1st in IDA
Immie Smith: 6th in Serious Solo
A second place team finish at St. John! Halstead only brought 10 entries but broke all to finals! Congratulations to:
Re Nedich: 3rd in Prose and 3rd in Extemp
Caden Harmon: 4th in Extemp and 1st in Prose
Echo Chastain: 2nd in Prose and 1st in IDA
Jayden Murray: 3rd in Impromptu, 3rd in Serious Solo, and 1st in IDA
Isabelle Loucks: 5th in Serious Solo and 1st in Poetry
Another good day yesterday! With just 12 entries, Halstead finished with a third place trophy in team sweepstakes at Cheney High School, breaking 10 out of 12 entries to finals! Congratulations to:
Re Nedich: 4th in Extemp
Liberty Hart: 5th in Informative and 6th in Impromptu
Jayden Murray: 5th in Serious Solo, 5th in Impromptu, and 2nd in IDA
Isabelle Loucks: 5th in Poetry and 2nd in IDA
Mattea Weber: 1st in Prose and 1st in Serious Solo
Elena Flask: 1st in Oration
Halstead sent 13 out of 16 entries to finals and claimed a second place finish in team sweepstakes at Clay Center! Congratulations to:
Liberty Hart: 2nd in Informative and 4th in Impromptu
Lucia Maillo Francoli: 3rd in Oration and 3rd in Impromptu
Mattea Weber: 2nd in Serious Solo and 2nd in Prose
Immie Smith: 7th in Serious Solo
Hannah Detweiler: 1st in Extemp
Olivia Rizza: 4th in POI and 4th in Prose
Clara Lewis: 4th in SSA and 2nd in Poetry
Elena Flask: 1st in Oration
Halstead will next compete at Cheney on March 24th
Another good day and another great team finish in sweepstakes! Halstead competed at Moundridge today and finished 2nd as a team, earning 11 medals from 13 total entries. Congratulations to:
Liberty Hart: 5th in Impromptu and 4th in Informative Speaking
Caden Harmon: 2nd in Extemp and 5th in Prose
Echo Chastain: 2nd in Improvised Duet Acting
Jayden Murray: 2nd in Impromptu, 2nd in Improvised Duet Acting, and 1st in Serious Solo Acting
Hannah Detweiler: 1st in Extemp, 4th in Impromptu
Isabelle Loucks: 4th in Serious Solo and 4th in Poetry
Special shout-out to Mattea Weber for volunteering to help to run extemp draw.
Halstead qualified three new entries to State in May
We had just one student out competing today, but she added to our list of state quals! Congratulations to:
Olivia Rizza: 1st in Prose and 2nd in Serious Solo
Halstead comes away with a first place team finish in sweepstakes at Great Bend today! Congratulations to:
Elena Flask: 1st in Oration
Isabelle Loucks: 2nd in Serious Solo
Hannah Detweiler: 2nd in Extemp
Mattea Weber: 1st in Prose and 1st in Serious Solo
Jayden Murray: 6th in Serious Solo
Caden Harmon: 5th in Prose
Re Nedich: 6th in Extemp
Halstead added three new state quals and broke 8 out of 14 entries.
Another great day! We took 8 entries, broke 7 to finals, and added 5 new state quals at a VERY large meet at Rock Creek! Congratulations to:
Echo Chastain: 2nd in POI
Lucia Maillo Francoli: 2nd in Oration and 3rd in Impromptu
Mattea Weber: 2nd in Serious Solo and 2nd in Prose:
Clara Lewis: 4th in Prose and 1st in Poetry
Even with just 8 entries out of a possible 16 that could be counted, Halstead finished 7th out of 23 schools in Sweeps.
Another good week! We took just 5 entries out to the Sterling meet today, breaking four in four separate events! Congratulations to:
Mattea Weber: 4th in Serious Solo
Re Nedich: 4th in Extemp
Jayden Murray: 3rd in Impromptu
Lucia Maillo Francoli: 1st in Oration
We competed at Pratt High School today, broke 8 entries to finals and earned a third place finish in sweepstakes! All but one were attending their first ever in-person meet. Congratulations to the following:
Clara Lewis: 4th in Poetry
Echo Chastain: 6th in Prose, 3rd in IDA
Jayden Murray: 2nd in Serious Solo, 3rd in IDA
Lucia Maillo: 2nd in Oration
Mattea Weber: 4th in Serious Solo
Amare Nedich: 2nd in Extemp
Caden Harmon: 3rd in Extemp
Re Nedich - Extemp
Lucia Maillo Francoli - Oration (x4)
Jayden Murray - Serious Solo (x2), Impromptu, IDA (x3)
Clara Lewis - Prose, Poetry (x2), IDA, SSA
Mattea Weber - Prose (x5), Serious Solo (x4)
Echo Chastain - POI (x2), IDA (x2), Prose
Hannah Detweiler - Extemp (x3)
Elena Flask - Oration (x5)
Isabelle Loucks - Serious Solo, IDA, Poetry (x2)
Olivia Rizza - Serious Solo, Prose, POI, IDA
Caden Harmon - Extemp, Prose
Liberty Hart - Informative (x2)
Lucia Maillo Francoli - Oration
Mattea Weber - SSA, Prose
Re Nedich - Extemp
Clara Lewis - Poetry
Hannah Detweiler - Extemp
Caden Harmon - Extemp
Jayden Murray - SSA