All Mid-Prairie speech competitors earn Division 1 rating

The Mid-Prairie High School speech team hosted a Iowa High School Speech Association District Individual Events Speech Contest on Saturday, Feb. 27. Every member of the Mid-Prairie Individual Events Speech Team earned a Division 1 rating for each of their events, and are advancing to State Individual Events Speech Contest on Saturday, March 13 at Mid-Prairie High School.

Speech Coaches at MPHS are Christine Meader and Lisa Helmuth, assisted by Meredith Caskey.

The Mid-Prairie students who competed, followed by their category, were:

' Diego Ayala (Spontaneous Speaking)

' Haydon Bailey (Reviewing: Star Wars: The Last Jedi - An Unbiased Review; Solo Acting: The Acupuncturist by John Patrick Shanley)

' Olivia Caskey (Solo Musical Theatre: 100 Easy Ways To Lose A Man by Joseph A Fields and Jerome Chodorov; Solo Acting: Mrs Micheal James by Olivia Caskey)

' Gavin Frascht (Spontaneous Speaking)

' Avery Frede (Solo Improvisation; Radio News Broadcasting)

' Isadora Goode (Interpretive Reading Prose: A New Adventure by Isadora Goode)

' Kyra Helmuth (Solo Musical Theatre: Alto's Lament by Marcy Heisler; Solo Acting: The Perfect Girlfriend by Kyra Helmuth)

' Emily Marner (Solo Musical Theatre: A Summer In Ohio by Jason Robert Brown; Solo Improvisation)

' Elizabeth Meader (Storytelling: The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen; Interpretive Reading Prose: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen)

' Jennifer Sanchez (Interpretive Reading Poetry: The Face In the Mirror by Catherine S. Liebenberg and I Am Who I Am by Tamara)

' Avery Slaubaugh (Interpretive Reading Prose: Jealous? I'm Not Jealous by Lyena Monis and Hi Brian By Brenna Allen)