Section Speech Results; Emma Coil Heading to State!

This weekend we faced 15 schools, we had 3 competing. Nathan Barbosa in Extemporaneous Reading,  Emma Coil in Discussion, and Elizabeth Karau in Dramatic Interpretation. It was an incredibly difficult meet, and there were many amazing performers. In the end all three students pulled through and made it to the final round.

Within each category faced a different beast.

Extemporaneous Reading requires a brain of steel in order to memorize roughly 15 different stories. Nathan Barbosa is given a text at the beginning of the season with 15 different stories. upon  arriving to the meet he given three stories at random, and is required to pick their most memorized and perform it within 30 minutes. The first few rounds he was given a 3, 3, and a 4 and made it to the finals as a tentative 6th place. In the end he received a 6th out of 12 competitors.

Dramatic interpretation pushed our 8th grader Elizabeth Karau to extend her knowledge of acting to the edge. Elizabeth picks a script along side her coach and memorizes it to be judged on her facial expressions, eye contact, poise, vocal and physical delivery and emotions that match the story line. For sections she competed in 2 rounds and a final and received a 4, and a 2. As for the final round she ended the season with 6th place out of 10 competitors

Discussion is clearly Emma Coil’s speciality and requires a very specific set of communication skills and organization.  This category requires problem-solving skills as an effort of a small group of students from different schools to reach a solution to a problem through informal exchange of facts, inferences, and judgments. This method of discussion seeks consensus rather than majority rule. Emma was given a 2, 1, 2 and made it to the final round. To conclude the meet she received an 1st out of 15 competitors and is off to state on April 25th!!!

We are extremely proud of each of our Madelia Speech students this year! Special shout out to Holdyn Haberman, Cora Jones, Hazel Ramirez-Sosa, and Harmony Kreel who didn’t compete in Sections but worked very hard in their category! Our season may be finished but we are excited to follow Senior Emma Coil off to state April 25th! Congrats Emma, we are so proud of you!