Mount Vernon had 20 division I ratings and six division II ratings at the district large group speech contest at Iowa City Liberty Saturday, Jan. 20. The team is coached by Grant Freeman and Tawnua Tenley, with help from assistant coaches Mary Horst, Amy White, Trevor Baty and Milo Olinger. Those earning Division Is advance to state speech contest Saturday, Feb. 3, to be held at Bettendorf.
Earning division Is were: Choral readings “Lost in TinderLand” starring Claire Thuerauf, Allie Teague, Emara Perrault, Renee Vig, Summer Bowie Smith, Violet Olinger, Mollie Snedden, Rebecca Conrad, Sierra Snyder, Emmett Jordan, Ashlynn Carter Shook and Owen Francois and “Paint the Symphony You Sing” starring Lyn Bauer, Chester Rood, Natalee Glaister and Nora Dye; ensemble actings “Essential Oil Queens” starring Lillian Bishop, Sierra Snyder, Uwen Boettcher, Mae Krapfl and Bella Hasley, “We’re All Chickens in the End” starring Skye Rodman, Grant Tucker, Kevin Zehms, Cait O’Connor and Adam Zehms and “Couples Therapy” starring Chester Rood, Natalee Glaister, Charlotte Woosley;
group improvisations “We Are Nevada” starring Michael Covington, Lewis Krob and Cait O’Connor, “Female Fighters” starring Penelope Vig, Natalie Thuerauf and Bella Hasley; group mimes “BFFS Bite Back” starring Mae Krapfl, Hannah Jones, Grace Hale, Eva Bishop and Korah Jo Robinson, “Sad Ghost Life Cycle” starring Violet Olinger, Meg Dye, Allie Teague, Claire Thuerauf; solo mimes “ER Exorcism” starring Emily Patten and Martha Takes Control” starring Carrie Bybee; musical theaters “Waitress” starring Kassie Rummel, Lillian Bishop, Mollie Snedden, Renee Vig, Anna Vavricek and “The Replacement” starring Penelope Vig, Kylie Pyatt, Cyrus Johnson and Skye Rodman;
one act play “Antigone” starring Charlie Krob, Cyrus Johnson, Emmett Jordan, Anna Vavricek, Colby Turley, Emara Perrault, Claire Jensen, Carrie Bybee, Emma Hoffman, Norah Weber, Ranger Hanna and Ashlynn Carter Shook; radio broadcasting “KPOW” starring Emily Giel and Willa Turner and “KDKA News” starring Dash Yamanishi, Sully Bowie Smith and Atticus Rood; short films “Murder at the End of the World” starring Sully Bowie Smith, Atticus Rood, Luke Paulus and Kassie Rummel, “Insomnium” starring Adam Zehms, Nathan Conrad and Hunter Steine, and “Too Angry Too Quickly: (A Fast and Furious Parody)” starring Grant Tucker, Kevin Zehms, Charlie Weldon, Michael Covington, Aiden Campbell, Parker Zieser and Dylan Robinson, and “The Interview” starring Carly Steen; TV newscasts WRNG News starring Will Errington, Clare Nydegger, Jayce Pendergrass, Charlie Weldon and Nathan Conrad, “Hard Boiled News” starring Willa Turner, Meg Dye, Megan Teague, Dash Yamanishi and Lewis Krob and “…Like It’s Hard” starring Nora Dye, Ava Willems and Carly Steen; Reader’s theater “The Untold Stories of the Three Little Pigs” starring YeongHo Bishop, Lyn Bauer, Ava Willems and Charlotte Woosley.
Earning Division II ratings were: Ensemble Acting “We Can Be Heroes” starring Kylie Pyatt, Charlie Krob, Rebecca Conrad and Natalie Thuerauf; group improv “Facepalm Emojis” starring Will Errington, Emily Patten and Clare Nydegger; musical theatre “Mean Girls” starring Grace Hale, Grace Bausch, Korah Jo Robinson, Norah Weber, Claire Jensen and Emma Hoffman; readers theatre “The Sound of Thunder” starring Owen Francois, Eva Bishop, Hannah Jones, Emily Giel, Megan Teague, Summer Bowie Smith, Ranger Hanna, Colby Turley and Ellah Shook; solo mime “White as Snow, Red as Blood” starring Ellah Shook; and short film “Cooking with Bobby” starring YeongHo Bishop, Beckett Johnson, Nathaniel Lewis, and John Bishop.