NDA Speech Team wins state championship and sends four to nationals |
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 01:00 |
TOLEDO—A state champion in impromptu speaking was the topping on a wonderful year in speech for the Notre Dame Academy Speech Team.
NDA was district champ in the Ohio High School Speech League district as well as Western Ohio District champ in the National Forensic League district. The team sent a record 24 girls to states.
Four are going to nationals in a suburb of Las Vegas in June. At the state competition in Medina, they tied for seventh out of the 66 schools that qualified students for states.
Individual highlights from the state finals include:
• Carly Johnson (Toledo): State Champion in Impromptu Speaking
Finalists:
• Sarah Hansen (Toledo): Third in state in Original Oratory
• Annie Farinella (Perrysburg): Sixth in state in Humorous Interpretation
Semi-Finalists:
• Anna Balzer (Perrysburg) and Nadine Ajaka (Toledo): tied for seventh in state in Duo Interpretation
• Maryellen Mouch (Sylvania): tied for seventh in state in Impromptu Speaking
• Katie Goliver (Bowling Green): top 12 in Oratorical Interpretation
Quarter Finalists:
• Corinne Natyshak (Toledo): Dramatic Interpretation
• Teri Relation (Sylvania) and Claire Rigoulot (Sylvania): Impromptu Speaking
• Brigid Randolph (Toledo): Prose-Poetry
• Catherine Mouch (Sylvania): Student Congress
Other State Qualifiers:
TaTiana Sanders (Toledo), Melanie Feehan (Maumee), Kathryn DeLapp (Sylvania), Hayley Reynolds (Sylvania), Lauren Czaplicki (Rossford), Katie Pettee (Maumee), Moncia Guisfredi (Sylvania), Leama Ajaka (Toledo), Veronica Lysaght (Toledo), Lauren Borrell (Toledo), Anne Glaza (Waterville) and Madeline Petee (Toledo).
NDA national qualifiers are TaTiana Sanders (Toledo) and Melanie Feehan (Maumee) in Duo Interpretation, Sarah Hansen (Toledo) in Original Oratory and Annie Farinella (Perrysburg) in Humorous Interpretation.
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