Mount Vernon High School individual speech team earned 31 Division 1 ratings and nine Division 2 ratings at State Individual Speech Contest at North Scott High School Saturday, March 15. The team is coached by head coach Tawnua Tenley and assistant coaches Grant Freeman, Amy White, Trevor Baty and Mary Horst. All State nominations were not known as of press deadline, and All State Individual festival is scheduled for Monday, March 31 at University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls.

Earning Division 1 ratings were:

• Bella Hasley in solo improvisation
• Korah Jo Robinson in public address “Gender Equality is Your Issue, Too”
• Emara Perreault in public address “The Perils of Indifference”
• Natalie Thuerauf in public address “Remarks on the Shootings in Newton, CT” and in acting “Captain Everything”
• Allie Teague in acting “A Thousand Seconds”
• Penelope Vig in after dinner speaking “One Direction’s Sixth Member”
• Mae Krapfl in after dinner speaking “Real Elf Lives of the North Pole” and in storytelling in “Not Your Typical Dragon”
• Carrie Bybee in expository address “Navigating through Navigation”
• Skye Rodman in expository address “Realism Portrait” and in solo musical theatre “Suppertime”
• Edith Dawson in literary program “Constant Rearrangement” and spontaneous speaking
• Ellah Shook in original oratory “Emotional Detachment” and in prose “Tucked In”
• Summer Bowie-Smith in review “Seedship” and in prose “Unpopular Gals
• Owen Francois in prose “There Will Come Soft Rains”
• Norah Weber in poetry “A Dreamer is What She Was by Norah Weber”
• Claire Thuerauf in poetry “Who She Was by Claire Thuerauf”
• Cait O’Connor in solo improvisation
• Michael Covington in solo improvisation and in storytelling “Muncha, Muncha, Muncha”
• Bella Hasley in literary program “Memory”
• Megan Teage in literary program “Wild Beauty”
• Penelope Vig in solo musical theater “I Can’t Read”
• Elliott McNulty in after dinner speaking “FLAP”
• Danny Dye in acting “Birthday Burrito”
• Emery Willems in solo musical theatre “My Grand Plan”
• Marlena Rodenberg in solo musical theatre “Last Midnight”

Earning Division 2 ratings were:

• Natalee Glaister in poetry “Type 1 Warrior by Natalee Glaister”
• Cyrus Johnson in solo musical theatre “The Impossible Dream” and in storytelling “The Contractor’s Tale”
• Will Turner in radio news announcing
• Grant Tucker in after dinner speaking “Coach George”
• Lyn Bauer in acting “All-Natural Addiction”
• Teagan Finn in prose “All the Bright Places”
• Elliott McNulty in solo improvisation
• Everett Marshall in spontaneous speaking