Speaking Out

My pal Danny Ray sent along this information about the Speech Team at Huntington High School. It's great to hear about the success of these young people, especially since many of them have also appeared in local community theatre productions. Here's what Danny said:

We have 42 students on both the Varsity and JV teams and have competed at four tournaments this year.

We finished second at the State Novice Tournament, fourth at Western Kentucky University, first at Braxton County and we finished second at Parkersburg High. Our students compete in 11 individual speech events and three debate events.

Here are the results from Parkersburg:

Student Congress - Caitlyn Irr - 6th, Amy Elliott - 5th

Salesmanship - Tyler Rice - 5th, Amelia Rapp - 4th

Prose Interpretation - Stephanie Budrus - 1st, Ryan Jackson - 2nd

After Dinner Speaking - Jordan Bean - 4th, Brittany Hazeldine - 5th

Dramatic Interp - Ryan Jackson - 4th

Public Forum Debate - Cameron Knight & Kailey Imlay - 4th, Katie Leffingwell & Chase Lawrence - 5th, Spencer Smith & Sean Delancey - 6th.

Lincoln Douglas Debate - Alex Dementiev - 2nd, Hoover Long - 4th.

Poetry Interpretation - Stephanie Budrus - 3rd.

Humorous Interpretation - Jordan Bean - 4th.

Impromptu - Philip Cron - 3rd, Stephanie Budrus - 4th, Sophie Berhie - 5th.

Declamation - Josefine Landgrave - 5th.

Original Oratory - Amelia Rapp - 3rd.

Extemporaneous Speaking - Sophie Berhie - 2nd, Sue Chaundry - 4th.

Dramatic Duo - Amelia Rapp & Philip Cron - 2nd, Jillian Felder & Leanna White - 3rd.

We are very proud of our students and team. Our coaches are:
Helen Freeman, Head Coach; Danny Ray, Assistant Coach; Stephen Vance, Stephen Freeman, Theresa Rapp, Anne Durham, Bil Neal and Terri Tagmeyer.

We will be hosting our tournament in January and hopefully will
convince local friends and theatre doers to help judge. It's a
lot of fun and very entertaining.

Thanks for the info, Danny, and congratulations to the HHS Speech Team!