Mount Vernon earned 23 Division I ratings and 10 Division II ratings at district large group speech contest at Monticello on Saturday, Jan. 25. The large group speech team is coached by Grant Freeman, with assistant coaches Tawnua Tenley, Mary Horst, Trevor Baty and Amy White. State large group speech contest is Saturday, Feb. 8, at Cedar Rapids Washington School.

Earning Division I ratings and advancing on to state were:

• ensemble actings “Hamlet” starring Penelope Vig, Megan Teague, Michael Covington, Chester Rood and Violet Olinger, “Sports!” starring Skye Rodman, Grant Tucker and Kevin Zehms

• “Sisters” starring Bella Hasley, Renee Vig, Norah Weber and Emara Perrault, and “Nova Scotia” starring Hagen Wilkins, Jack Bauer, Marlena Rodenberg and Emery Willems;

• readers theatre “Then I’ll be Happy” starring Summer Bowie Smith, Katie Whitehead, Owen Francois, Ellah Shook, Sarah Sharif, Lydia Marshall, Effie Johnson, Charlotte Hand, Collin Clark and Eva Bishop;

• group mimes “My Monstrous Time at Summer Camp” starring Grace Bausch, Mya Stoner, Katherine Bauer, Brooklynn Feddersen and Eva Bishop, and “The Tragedy of Medusa” starring Violet Olinger, Meg Dye, Allie Teague and Claire Thuerauf;

• group improvisations “Clark, Krapfl, Robinson, Stoner, and Zehms” starring Collin Clark, Adam Zehms, Mae Krapfl, Dylan Robinson and Mya Stoner; “Hasley, O’Connor, and Thuerauf” starring Bella Hasley, Natalie Thuerauf and Cait O’Connor, and “Bauer, Covington, Francois, and Nydegger” starring Katherine Bauer, Owen Francis, Clare Nydegger and Michael Covington;

• TV newscasting “Backseat News” starring Ava Willems, Carly Steen, Cora Smith, Cait O’Connor and Hannah Jones and “Sox News” starring Lexi Liu, Clara Vavricek, Andrew Errington, Josie Panos and Danny Dye and “MANATEE News” starring Charlie Weldon, Clare Nydegger, Luke Paulus, Jackson Voight and Cy Johnson;

• one act play “Peter Pan” starring Penelope Vig, Natalie Thuerauf, Emmett Jordan, Skye Rodman, Meg Dye, Megan Teague, Sarah Sharif, Emma Hoffman, Claire Jensen, Charlotte Woosley, Mae Krapfl, Ellah Shook, Allie Teague and Nathan Conrad;

• solo mimes “Tiptoes: The American Dream” starring Claire Thuerauf and “Kill or Be Killed” starring Korah Jo Robinson;

• short films “Pieces of the Past” starring Grant Tucker, Lydia Marshall, Kevin Zehms, Will Turner, Charlie Weldon and Nathan Conrad, “The Birgintons Part 4” starring Adam Zehms, Ellia Oesterle, Dylan Robinson and Luke Paulus and “Zapatrilovaxitalum” starring Andrew Errington, Danny Dye, Beck Oesterle, Everett Marshall and Isaiah Hanson;

• musical theatres “Chicago” starring Emma Hoffman, Anna Stephens, Renee Vig, Lyn Bauer, Nora Dye and Betsy Louwagie, “Urinetown” starring Cy Johnson, Elizabeth Morf, Natalee Glaister, Grace Bausch and Norah Weber and “Something’s Rotten” starring Chester Rood, Grace Hale, Charlotte Woosley and Emmett Jordan;

• choral reading “A Year in White” starring Lyn Bauer, Natalee Glaister, Elizabeth Morf, Korah Jo Robinson, Nora Dye, Emara Perrault, Summer Bowie Smith and Claire Jensen;

• radio broadcasting “WGOV” starring Will Turner, Hannah Jones and Grace Hale.

Earning Division II ratings were:

• solo mime “A Prison Pipeline” starring Carrie Bybee;

• ensemble actings Joni Mitchell’s Messengers starring Violet Tharp, Fenn Jones, Teagan Finn and “The Cupcake” starring Elliott McNulty and Isaiah Hanson;

• short film “The History of Women’s Rights” starring Katie Whitehead, Carly Steen, Ava Willems, Alimatou Cisse and Rose Pisarik;

• group mime “Can I Be Angry?” starring Effie Johnson, Ellia Oesterle, Willow Shroyer;

• radio broadcasting KCAV starring Nathaniel Lewis, Beckett Johnson, YeongHo Bishop and John Bishop; Group improvisation Marshall McNulty starring Zion Safo, Everett Marshall, Elliott McNulty;

• choral reading “Natalie’s Letter” starring Lexi Liu, Clara Vavricek, Liliana Grosse, Fiona Calcara and Emery Willems;

• musical theatre “Little Shop of Horrors” starring Hagen Wilkins, Jack Bauer, Teagan Finn, Liliana Grosse, Marlena Rodenberg;

• readers theatre “August” starring Fenn Jones, Violet Tharp, Hazel Danielson and Fiona Calcara.