We had a good day yesterday at McPherson! Nine of our ten entries broke to finals. Congratulations to:

Devan Masters - 5th in Extemp

Lydia Thompson - 6th in SSA

Michael Detweiler - 5th in HSA

Ahnalea Watkins - 2nd in Impromptu

Liberty Hart - 3rd in Impromptu

Liberty Hart - 5th in Informative

Mattea Weber - 1st in Oration

Ahnalea Watkins - 5th in Oration

Lydia Thompson - 5th in Prose

It was a great day! We had some high schoolers joined by many of our middle schoolers at the Wichita Collegiate forensics meet. On the high school side, congratulations to Ahnalea Watkins on finishing 1st in Oration and 3rd in Poetry! Meanwhile, all of our middle schoolers earned a "I" rating from at least one of their judges today!

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We had a small group competing at Cheney. Congratulations to the following medalists!

Mattea Weber - 1st in Oration

Michael Detweiler - 5th in Humorous Solo

Kadiance Salyers - 3rd in Poetry

Kaylee Garcia - 5th in Informative

It was a good weekend! Halstead Forensics traveled to the Olathe Northwest Forensics Invitational Tournament. The meet is the largest in the state of Kansas and primarily features competition from 5A and 6A schools. In team sweepstakes, Halstead finished 10th out of 31 schools present and had several students advance past prelims. Congratulations to:

Caden Harmon - 12th in Domestic Extemp

Sam and Adeline Hall - 2nd in Duet Acting

Caden Harmon - 21st in Impromptu Speaking

Liberty Hart - 14th in Impromptu Speaking

Ahnalea Watkins - 24th in Impromptu Speaking

Re Nedich - 6th in Informative 7

Marshall Reid - 5th in Informative 7

Liberty Hart - 4th in Informative 7

Kaylee Garcia - 3rd in Informative 7

Jayden Murray - 15th in Poetry

Mattea Weber - 18th in Prose

Caden Harmon - 21st in Prose

Ahnalea Watkins - 11th in Oration

Mattea Weber - 3rd in Oration

All of the above continued past the first three rounds of competition. For some context, most of the meets we attend will have something in the neighborhood of 20 entries in each event. Impromptu speaking alone had over 90.

We had one competitor at Lyons. Congratulations to Echo Chastain on finishing 5th in Serious Solo and 4th in POI!

The Dragons brought a small group to Sedgwick and finished third in team sweepstakes while breaking eight of its 16 entries to finals! Congratulations to:

Kadiance Salyers - 5th in SSA

Jayden Murray - 3rd in Poetry

Liberty Hart - 3rd in Informative

Ahni Watkins - 3rd in Impromptu

Michael Detweiler - 2nd in HSA

Ahni Watkins - 2nd in Oration

Jayden Murray - 1st in POI

Jayden Murray - 1st in Prose

Huge shout out to Isabelle Loucks, Gene Marsh, Paula Detweiler, and Shelly Watkins for pitching in and judging! 

Halstead competed at the Great Bend Panther Forensics Tournament on Saturday and came away with a first place team finish in sweepstakes! Congratulations to:

Luke Ayres - 6th in HSA

Ahni Watkins - 6th in Impromptu

Re Nedich - 6th in Extemp

Caden Harmon - 4th in Extemp

Hannah Detweiler - 2nd in Extemp

Kadiance Salyers - 5th in SSA

Lydia Thompson - 4th in SSA

Jayden Murray - 4th in Prose

Braylon Hunnel - 3rd in Prose

Mattea Weber - 2nd in Prose

Caden Harmon - 1st in Prose

Adie Hall and Sam Hall - 3rd in Duet

Michael Detweiler - 6th in POI

Kadiance Salyers - 5th in POI

Jayden Murray - 3rd in POI

Echo Chastain - 2nd in POI

Hannah Detweiler - 7th in Oration

Mattea Weber - 1st in Oration

We had a small group at a large meet at Pratt today! Congratulations to Echo Chastain on finishing 2nd in POI and Jayden Murray on finishing 3rd in POI! 

We kicked off our season today at Clearwater and came away with a 2nd place team finish! We broke 11 of our 15 entries to finals and only 3 of our 10 students had attended a meet before! Congratulations to:

Lydia Thompson, 7th in Serious Solo

Sophie Warren, 6th in Serious Solo

Michael Detweiler, 6th in Humorous Solo

Liberty Hart, 4th in Informative and 3rd in Impromptu

Caden Harmon, 2nd in Extemp and 2nd in Impromptu

Devan Masters, 5th in Extemp

Echo Chastain, 5th in Prose and 4th in Poetry

Ahni Watkins, 2nd in Poetry