Winside Speech Meet
On Saturday, February 4, the Plainview Speech team traveled to Winside for the first meet of the year. The team had a successful start and finished 4th out of 15 teams.
Individually, eight speakers earned medals. Autumn Ickler received a second place medal in serious prose. Third place medals were earned by the duet acting team of Autumn Ickler and Austin Choat; Nikki Mosel in informative speaking; and Elle Kment in poetry. Fourth place went to the duet acting team of Nikki Mosel and Kylie Mosel and Kaydi Daudt in poetry. Fifth place medals were earned by Brittani Wacker in persuasive speaking and Jordyn Anderson in extemporaneous speaking.
Several speakers missed the cut-off to qualify for the finals round by one point: Austin Choat in humorous, the OID team of John Novicki, Matt Hoffmann, Matthew Bonta, Morgyn Christiansen, and Brittani Wacker, and Jasmine Zuhlke in poetry. And a couple of the novice competitors—earned high marks and superior rankings in both of their rounds—Klarissa Norris in informative and Becca Kment in serious prose.