CHS Excels at District Speech

       On Wednesday, March 14th, the Chadron Speech team traveled to Sidney for the district competition. Sixteen students participated in multiple events including informative, duet, oral interpretation of drama, poetry, and persuasive. Thirteen of the students continued on to finals and placed as follows:

• Hunter Hawk placed 4th in Persuasive 

• JashwaAlan Cummings placed 4th in Poetry

• Hunter Hawk, Abby Hyer, Claire Margetts, Mande Wollesen, and Grace Sorensen: OID placed 4th

• JashwaAlan Cummings and Kaylie Elliott placed 5th in Duet

• Alexis Conboy placed 6th in Poetry

• Brooklyn Stack, Aubree Noble, Maddi Pelton, Spencer Blundell and Jameson Margetts: OID placed 6th

• Paige Carattini placed 6th in both Informative and Persuasive 

The team as a whole placed fifth out of eight teams overall.

"There is nothing we could have done better," coach Brenda Lanphear said. "We couldn't have practiced more, we couldn't have dressed better, we just presented all of what CHS speech had to offer. I'm so proud of how the kids conquered this season."