The Alpha Speech Team took home the second place Overall Team Sweepstakes trophy from the Grady High Speech and Debate Tournament. Winners included Christina Nguyen in Humorous Interpretation, Nalah Hill in Dramatic Interpretation, and the team of Justin Gaither and Cal Swanson in Duo Interpretation. Our team picked up two more state bids. This was the final invitational meet of the season and our team moves forward to the state championship with 32 qualifying entries.
Other students placing at this meet:
Tate Rehklau – Dramatic Interpretation – 2nd Place
Morgan Shields – Dramatic Interpretation – 3rd Place
Emma Svitil – Prose & Poetry – 2nd Place
Conner Kocks – Humorous Interpretation – 3rd Place
Emma Svitil – Humorous interpretation – 4th Place
Lara Strydom – Humorous Interpretation – 5th Place
Irene Velez – Dramatic interpretation – 4th Place
Kelly Lumpkin – Original Oratory – 5th Place
Morgan Shields – Original Oratory – 6th Place
Kelly Lumpkin & Tate Rehklau – Duo Interpretation – 2nd Place
Nalah Hill & Milx Barbosa – Duo Interpretation – 3rd Place
Arteen Afshar & Joshua Maddox – Duo Interpretation 5th Place
Anders Nelson & Karthik Ramaswami – Duo Interpretation – 6th Place
