Sixty Large Group Speech students led by Rachel Pasker and Kris Doss represented Northeast at the District Speech Competition at Northeast High School. The team prepared 22 events in 9 categories and earned 22 Division I Ratings.
Events Earning a Division I Rating (in order of appearance)
All My Sons An Ensemble Acting with Dulcenea Clarke, Carter Jargo, and Garrett Lamp
As Bad As It Gets An Ensemble Acting with Hannah Lower, Madison Kluever, and Brenna Meyermann
Keeping Score An Ensemble Acting with Paige Holst, Bryce Guilliams, Ciera Krogman, and Ellie Rickertsen
Face the Music An Ensemble Acting with Blake Hansen, Kesley Holdgrafer, and Valerie Spooner
Spring Awakening A Musical Theater with Emilia Feller and Carter Jargo
Fun Home A Musical Theater with Dulcenea Clarke, Paige Holst, Michael Mulholland, Ellie Rickertsen
Each Kindness A Choral Reading with Peighton Dolan, Ava Friedrichsen, Emma Garien, Kesley Holdgrafer, Luke Holdgrafer, Brooklyn Kucera, Jessica Ploog, Jara Rathje, Valerie Spooner
A Coincidence A Short Film with Isabelle Harland, Tayte Holdgrafer, Aden Howard, Piper Isbell Hanna Miller, Tayte Holdgrafer, Kendyl Perron, and Kylie Petersen
A Hint of an Idea A Short Film with Talib Bird, Peighton Dolan, Alex Everson, Luke Holdgrafer, and William Lampe
FAIL Radio A Radio Broadcast with Emilia Feller, Tyler Hines, Thomas Machande, Michael Mulholland, and Jeffrey Peters
The Iowa Broadcast A Radio Broadcast with Abbigail Hargrave, Tayte Holdgrafer, Corbin Knutsen, Hannah Lower, Clayton Meyermann, Jacob Tegeler, Ella Trenkamp, and Kylie Petersen
NOIR Radio A Radio Broadcast with Talib Bird, Alex Everson, Zoey Foster, William Lampe, Gaven Schneider
I Need My Monster A Reader’s Theater with Zoey Englert, Abbigail Hargrave, Piper Isbell, Madison Kluever, Lily Leding, Kelvin Machande, Brenna Meyermann, and Ella Trenkamp
Rapunzel Uncut A Reader’s Theater with Alaina Boyer-Kane, Brooke Bredekamp, Blake Hansen, Nolan Holdgrafer, Clarissa Jacobsen, Coby Johnson, Beth Lamp, Madison Martens, and Cenady Soenksen
A Maternal Love A Group Mime with Emma Ketelsen, Ciera Krogman, Beth Lamp, and Madison Martens
Shattered Strings A Group Mime with Alexis Grantz and Kendyl Perron
3 Girls and a Game A Group Mime with Jessica Ploog, Jara Rathje, and Cenady Soenksen
Three Random Words A Group Improvisation with Zebediah Cox, Brooke Bredekamp, Tyler Hines, and Nathan Ketelsen. Their situation was: Watching a Scary Movie
Level 2 Improv A Group Improvisation with Bryce Guilliams, Garrett Lamp, and Thomas Machande. Their situation was: In a lifeboat and you hear a sound.
Purple Dragons A Group Improvisation with Wyatt Dann, Kelvin Machande, Hanna Miller, and Jacob Tegeler. Their situation was Explaining Twitter to the older generation.
Improvi-Nation A Group Improvisation with Alexis Grantz, Isabelle Harland, Corbin Knutsen, and Clayton Meyermann. Their situation was: Working a Fast Food Counter
I Never Saw Another Butterfly A One Act Play with Zebediah Cox, Zoey Foster, Kathryn French, Nolan Holdgrafer, Emma Ketelsen, Nathan Ketelsen, and Brooklyn Kucera.
— The Northeast Speech Team will compete in the State Speech competition hosted by Cedar Rapids Kennedy High School on February 6. Due to social distancing mitigations, Northeast students will perform at Northeast High School for IHSSA judges with limited spectators.
