Yellowjacket Speech Team takes first at Sections: 11 students will go on to State

The Yellowjacket Speech Team took first at Sections in Underwood on Saturday.

The team sent 33 competitors from the Sub-section to the Section tournament. At Sections, 18 competitors made it into the final rounds.

Perham scored more than 35 points over the second place team of Parkers Prairie and more than 65 points over the third place team from Breckenridge.

The team will be sending 11 competitors on to State competition this coming Saturday at Blaine High School. There will be 13 categories in competitive speech and the team is sending a representative in 10 of those 13 categories.

Individual results from Sections include:

Creative Expression

Brian Howey, 2nd, State Contestant

Prose

Leah Wuebben, 2nd, State Contestant

Great Speeches

Zepherian Richardson, 2nd, Alternate; Sam Dreier, 1st, Alternate to State; Julia Pearson, 2nd State Contestant

Poetry

Emma Sweere, 1st, Alternate to State; Ali Christenson, 1st, State Contestant

Inform

Paityn Lund, 6th; Jenna Wegscheid, 2nd, Alternate; Rachel Newville, 1st, State Contestant

Original Oratory

Mark Huebsch, 3rd, State Contestant

Drama

Rachel Nelson, 2nd, State Contestant

Discussion

Riley Tostenson, 1st, Alternate to State; Kris Hanson, 3rd, State Contestant

Duo

Chris Knutson and Rory Risk, 1st, State Contestant

Extemp Reading

Heidi Webber, 2nd, Alternate to State

Extemp. Speaking

Kanyon Edval, 3rd,  State Contestant