Earns 37 Division 1 ratings

Mount Vernon held a mini-WaMaC individual speech contest Monday, Feb. 23, at Mount Vernon schools ahead of districts to give students a chance to make corrections ahead of district individual contests. Individual speech team is coached by Tawnua Tenley, Grant Freeman, Mary Horst, Amy White and Trevor Baty. The students had 37 Division 1 ratings and 14 Division 2 ratings.

Earning Division 1 ratings were:

Solo musical theatres by Adrianne Smith, Claire Jensen, Emma Hoffman, Norah Weber and Willa Olinger; prose by Adrianne Smith; acting by Allie Teague, Chester Rood, Emma Hoffman, Nellie Johnson and Willa Olinger; spontaneous speaking by Ava Willems, Carrie Bybee and Edith Dawson; after dinner speaking by Beckett Johnson, ClaireAnne Elloren, Danny Dye and Mae Krapfl; videocasting by Chester Rood; poetry by Claire Thuerauf, ClaireAnne Elloren, Jo Barnes, Natalee Jacobson and Norah Weber; storytelling by Claire Thuerauf and Marlena Rodenberg; improvisation by Connor Teague and Michael Covington; radio news announcing by Edith Dawson; original oratory by Ellah Shook, Hannah Jones and Natalee Jacobson; literary program by Ellah Shook; public address by Fenn Jones and William Turner; review by Lydia Marshall; expository address by Mae Krapfl;

Earning Division 2 ratings were:

videocasting by Andrew Errington and Grant Tucker; expository address by Carrie Bybee and Kevin Zehms; improvisation by Elliott McNulty, Kevin Zehms and Nellie Johnson; radio news announcing by Grant Tucker and Owen Francois; review by Hannah Bray; after dinner speaking by Jo Barnes; solo musical theatre by Kaedynce Hanson; prose by Kaedynce Hanson and Owen Francois.