Kuemper speech students made their coaches, Susan Glass, Sue Murphy, Jake Gute, Lydia Schettler and Deb Gute proud with a great showing at the individual speech state competition held at Woodbury Central High School in Moville on Saturday. Twenty-one students participated with 16 receiving 1 ratings and five going home with 2 ratings. Students performed in front of three judges who ranked various aspects of their categories, and those who received scores of 1 from the judges are now eligible for nomination to perform at the All State Festival, held at the University of Northern Iowa on Monday, April 4. A full listing of the state individual speech participants and their rankings can be found below.
1 Rating: Paige Tiefenthaler- Poetry & After Dinner Speaking; Victoria Bauer- Acting & Original Oratory; Madison Rial-Acting, Ben Kenkel-Prose; Jacque Batz-Literary Program;Jacob Schreck & Reed Rawlings-Improvisation; Mary Lawler(9),Sami Hays (9), Danielle Schultes, Maggie Steinkamp-Storytelling; Lauren Macke(9), Evan Schettler, Marta Pugh-Musical Theater
2 Rating: Jaclyn Kraus, Grace Meyers& Britney Bruch (9)-Prose; Jessica Venner-Literary Program; Liz Kenkel-Musical Theater
