STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. – The Ste. Genevieve High School Speech and Debate team recorded excellent results at the COMO Classic, held at Rock Bridge High School in Columbia, Mo. recently.
This was the final invitational of the year.
The following students advanced to semi-finals: Alissa Grass in Original Oratory, Kyler Gugel and Rae Winch in Poetry Reading, Aidan Lewis in Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking, Victoria Merrifield and Ayden White in Prose Reading, and Bennett Walls in Storytelling. Out of the seven semi-finalists, six students advanced to finals.
See the final results:
- Bennett Walls – 2nd place in Open Storytelling
- Rae Winch – 3rd place in Open Poetry Reading
- Kyler Gugel – 3rd place in Novice Poetry Reading
- Aidan Lewis – 5th place in Novice Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking
- Victoria Merrifield – 6th place in Novice Prose Reading
- Alissa Grass – 6th place in Novice Original Oratory