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SPEECH Virtual APRIL 23-24, 2021 STATE TOURNAMENT CLASS A CLASS AA

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S P E E C H S TAT E T O U R N A M E N T 1

SPEECH

Virtual

APRIL 23-24, 2021

STATE TOURNAMENT

CLASS ACLASS AA

WELCOMEto the CELEBRATION of CHAMPIONS

A s we celebrate the 2020-2021 state tournament seasons, I extend an enthusiastic welcome, on behalf of our entire Board of Directors, to each

tournament attendee, whether in person or virtually. It is exciting to return to the tradition of celebrating students through competition at the highest level.

Our Championship Celebrations spotlight students who participate in MSHSL athletics and fine arts and choose to extend their day representing their school and community. Your positive support of the commitment of these students is validated in your attendance at this event. While each tournament may look different than it has in the past, the excitement and validation that are trademarks of our tournaments remain.

The MSHSL recognizes the value of education-based activities. These activities are integral to each member school and research continues to demonstrate the many benefits of participation. Our students in athletics and fine arts activities have higher grade point averages, miss less school, and have the potential for greater success beyond high school than their classmates. Each competition provides the opportunity for students to develop teamwork skills, challenge their abilities, compete with integrity, and learn together.

“Education and Leadership for a Lifetime” is the slogan of the Minnesota State High School League. This purpose is highlighted in the many acts of sportsmanship found throughout these competitions. During the tournament, we encourage you to continue to recognize and positively support these actions.

While each high school season culminates in a state tournament or festival, we believe every game, contest, or performance throughout the year has been a celebration of champions. Thank you for your season-long support of students, athletes, coaches, directors, spirit squads, bands, parents, teachers, and administrators.

Blaine Novak, President MSHSL Board of Directors

The Minnesota State High School League is a non-profit, voluntary association of public and private schools with a history of service to Minnesota youth since 1916. Its mission is to provide educational opportunities through interscholastic athletic and fine arts programs for students and leadership and support for member schools.

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MISSIONSTATEMENT

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2021 State Champions

Row 1 (L-R): Kensi Binstadt, Cynthia Ghannoum, Annika Binstadt, Lilias Peacock, Zaara Nayak, Ida Lim, Teagan O'Keefe, Salmah Elmasry. Row 2: Maggie Banks, Pahwa Yang, Lucy Schwieger, Anna Gaudio, Hana Miller, Emma Cohen, Rohit Iyer, Ian Frankel. Row 3: Elissa Frankel, Audrey Jakway, Akshay Somayajula, Dhruv Muppidi, Ryan Ghose, Livia Wooldridge, Garrett Hollihan, Lilly Gasterland-Gustafsson. Pictured Virtually: Charlotte Bergh, Kate Paulson. Not Pictured: Sana Punjani, Evie Bettison, Isak Dai, Zoya Nayak, Sammie Garrity.

CLASS A STATE CHAMPION Mounds Park Academy, St. Paul

CLASS AA STATE CHAMPION Moorhead

Row 1 (L-R): Audrey Heisler, Thalia Christenson, Nona Harrison, Karena Christenson, Lucie Swanson, Blake Larson, Layla Eisenzimmer, Emily Walker, Emily Swenson, Anika Drees, Lily Kjos, Grace Halvorson, Abigail Von Bank, Beth Stein, Sophie Schulz, Molly Blanchard, India Carlson. Row 2: Iris Ming, Kylie Edenborg, Olivia Dahlberg, Jordan Jensen, Ally Harvala, Seema Mustafa, Amelia Bailly, CeCe Bedore, Evie Kenkel, Stella Mehlhoff, Greta Homuth, Olivia Larson, Scout Holding-Eagle Bushaw, Carson Durand, Colin Welna, Leif Carlson, Malik Smith. Row 3: Macy Larson, Andrina Rockstad, Maret Holm, Hameedah Oladele, Kaylin Patrick, Mya Weiler, Tate Horan, Ethan Larson, Jack Nichol, Cole Schurman, Martan Gregoire, Ingrid Rygg, Greta Cole, Harrison Timm, Macalister Nelson, Charlie Maki.

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2021 Class A Medal WinnersCreative Expression 1st Damian Christian, Paynesville Area 2nd Aiden Eckel, Browerville 3rd Luci Bransel, Morris Area 4th Kaylee Arndt, Fillmore Central, Harmony 5th Quinn FierkeLepp, South Ridge, Culver 6th John Ronning, New York Mills 7th Katelyn DeLost, Walker-Hackensack-Akeley 8th Mariah Peterson, *Red Lake County Central

Discussion 1st McCartney Knutson, New London-Spicer 2nd Hannah Samuelson, Parkers Prairie 3rd Aarav Devkota, Morris Area 4th Richard Sylak, Zumbrota-Mazeppa 5th Madi Lee, East Grand Forks 6th Sadie Blace, Mankato Loyola 7th Julia Nilles, Russell-Tyler-Ruthton 8th Hannah Radzwill, Underwood

Duo Interpretation 1st Isabell Geiger and Tabitha Thatcher, Fairmont 2nd Garrett Hollihan and Lilly Gasterland-Gustafsson, Mounds Park

Academy, St. Paul 3rd Keegan Bestland and Keegan Harvey, Staples Motley 4th Faith Mader and Jillian Kulm, Annandale 5th Sydney Ellis and Peyton Ellis, Chatfield 6th Emily Hamm and Hailey Lesmeister, Morris Area 7th Haylee Gunderson and Sebastian Rappe, Randolph 8th Anthony Carlson and Lillian Thomas, PACT Charter School, Ramsey

Extemporaneous Reading 1st Emma Niebuhr, Minnesota Valley Lutheran, New Ulm 2nd Aizlynn Thim, Cannon Falls 3rd Naomi Ferguson, Royalton 4th Kirsten Rothenberger, *Rock Ridge 5th Charlotte Bergh, Mounds Park Academy, St. Paul 6th Brandon Stalboerger, Melrose Area 7th Paris FierkeLepp, South Ridge, Culver 8th Jocelyn Laux, Hawley

Extemporaneous Speaking 1st Salmah Elmasry, Mounds Park Academy, St. Paul 2nd Weston Loughmiller, Fairmont 3rd Megan Buffington, Pequot Lakes 4th Rohit Iyer, Mounds Park Academy, St. Paul 5th Lydia Pedersen, Cannon Falls 6th Hailey Biesanz, Cotter, Winona 7th Chance Tunnissen, Luverne 8th Brayden Johnson, Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton

Great Speeches 1st Aubrey Williams, Cotter, Winona 2nd Kaylee Campbell, Tracy-Milroy-Balaton 3rd Ameya Komaragiri, Fairmont 4th Amara Carey, *Rock Ridge 5th Haley Patel, Blackduck 6th Camden Edmonson, Annandale 7th Maggie Anderson, Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton 8th Eleanor Hamlet, Fairmont

Humorous Interpretation 1st Ryan Ghose, Mounds Park Academy, St. Paul 2nd Rayna Bowen, Rockford 3rd Caden Mrazek, Staples Motley 4th Arden Eckel, Browerville 5th Jaron Gross, Pierz 6th Hana Miller, Mounds Park Academy, St. Paul 7th Emma Watson, Cannon Falls 8th Sara Kampsen, Sauk Centre

Informative Speaking 1st Grace Miller, Cotter, Winona 2nd Kristine Kalthoff, Albany 3rd Libby Tonn, *River Valley 4th Isaac Polovick, Browerville 5th Torii Nienow, Staples Motley 6th Brynn Drevlow, Thief River Falls 7th Ava Weinreis, St. Cloud Cathedral 8th Sydney Kowarsch, Cherry, Iron

Original Oratory 1st Delaney Ignace, Paynesville Area 2nd Emma Cohen, Mounds Park Academy, St. Paul 3rd Sophie Hunter, Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton 4th Lakia Manska, Morris Area 5th Anna Kronbeck, Hawley 6th Maia Bowman, East Grand Forks 7th Aspen Thiel, Perham 8th Laura Hunt, St. Croix Lutheran Academy, West St. Paul

Serious Interpretation - Drama 1st Reece Wright, Annandale 2nd Kendall Lawless, Cannon Falls 3rd Gracie Schad, Melrose Area 4th Maddie Schiller, New London-Spicer 5th Maggie O’Hara, Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton 6th Sophie Statsman, *Rock Ridge 7th Catherine Williamson, Pine Island 8th Lexy Nelson, Redwood Valley, Redwood Falls

Serious Interpretation - Poetry 1st Livia Wooldridge, Mounds Park Academy, St. Paul 2nd Jaden Scholl, *Westbrook-Walnut Grove/Red Rock Central 3rd Lucy Schwieger, Mounds Park Academy, St. Paul 4th Emma Ravnass, Park Rapids Area 5th Nadia Yliniemi, Park Rapids Area 6th Marissa John, Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton 7th Angela Mergen, Albany 8th Makayla Hillukka, *United North Central

Serious Interpretation - Prose 1st Anna Gaudio, Mounds Park Academy, St. Paul 2nd Libby Nelson, Underwood 3rd Jenna Spanovich, Tracy-Milroy-Balaton 4th Kaycie Brookens, Fairmont 5th Alex Menne, Minnesota New Country School, Henderson 6th Julia Hunt, St. Croix Lutheran Academy, West St. Paul 7th Kiera Lafferty, *River Valley 8th Jessica Baszuro, Cannon Falls

Storytelling 1st Zenessa Anderson, Rushford-Peterson 2nd Sydney Hagen, Minnewaska Area, Glenwood 3rd Brealyn Damm, Murray County Central, Slayton 4th Victoria Proulx, Crookston 5th Desarae Kohrs, Park Rapids Area 6th Annika Wheeler, Fairmont 7th Aletta Strande, Chatfield 8th Tyler Herr, Underwood

Congratulations Class A

Medal Winners

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2021 Class AA Medal WinnersCreative Expression 1st Thor Reimann, Eastview, Apple Valley 2nd Josh Nikhata, Mound Westonka 3rd Paige Lier, Spring Lake Park 4th Philsan Isaak, Spring Lake Park 5th Elie Sayers, Lakeville North 6th Luke Ostercamp, Forest Lake 7th Shivani Muthya, Shakopee 8th Josie Harris, Hermantown

Discussion 1st Liv Schaefer, Chanhassen 2nd Kaori Hirano, Prior Lake 3rd Scout Holding Eagle-Bushaw, Moorhead 4th Ellie Sprinthall, Eagan 5th Julia Schowalter, Eagan 6th Gracee Patel, Wayzata 7th Fardouza Farah, Owatonna 8th Nadia Kuxhausen Ralph, Northfield

Duo Interpretation 1st Colin Roberts and Alice Hovendon, Eagan 2nd Jonah Johnson and Frank Knier, Apple Valley 3rd Jack Nichol and CeCe Bedore, Moorhead 4th Laura Schile and Jasmine Haidar, Eastview, Apple Valley 5th Ben Lu and Reese Marcus, Woodbury 6th Alexander Bailey and Norah Shea, Roseville Area 7th Olma Wakjira and Lars Andersen, Eagan 8th Nathan Tomas and Peter Mundale, Centennial, Circle Pines

Extemporaneous Reading 1st Olivia Beach, Eastview, Apple Valley 2nd Abby Charleson, Elk River 3rd Enya Brett, East Ridge, Woodbury 4th Bridget Schaber, Eagan 5th Hanisa Pasupuleti, Eastview, Apple Valley 6th Seema Mustafa, Moorhead 7th Kyra Kellogg, Stillwater Area 8th Lulu Schirmacher, Fridley

Extemporaneous Speaking 1st Alli Hering, Eastview, Apple Valley 2nd Vikash Giritharan, Eastview, Apple Valley 3rd Agrim Joshi, Shakopee 4th Gavin Davis, Mankato East 5th Jackie Bucaro, Benilde-St. Margaret’s, St. Louis Park 6th Bianca Turman, Eagan 7th Minkai Li, Woodbury 8th Tharika Arunkumar, Lakeville North

Great Speeches 1st Jomi Omoya, Roseville Area 2nd Amy Laabs, Chanhassen 3rd Maimuna Aden, Rochester John Marshall 4th Adriann Drenk, Lakeville North 5th Martan Gregoire, Moorhead 6th Wanwa Omot, Eastview, Apple Valley 7th John Novack, Eagan 8th Heden Abdulahi, Eagan

Humorous Interpretation 1st Sophie Todaro, Apple Valley 2nd Maret Holm, Moorhead 3rd Natalie Engh, East Ridge, Woodbury 4th Ellie Scheldberg, Burnsville 5th Madeleine Dore, Orono 6th Julia Christenson, Owatonna 7th Anika Drees, Moorhead 8th Leif Carlson, Moorhead

Informative Speaking 1st Lauren Manna, Chanhassen 2nd Ceceilia Voss, Apple Valley 3rd Anneteke Adoga, Woodbury 4th Allison Benjamin, East Ridge, Woodbury 5th Holly Restad, East Ridge, Woodbury 6th Sophie Green, Apple Valley 7th Greta Cole, Moorhead 8th Annika Fredeen, Stillwater Area

Original Oratory 1st Lydia Voss, Apple Valley 2nd Grace Halvorson, Moorhead 3rd Jihan Abdi, Apple Valley 4th Krystal Mutebi, Lakeville North 5th Maya Weiler, Moorhead 6th Priestley Ayumba, Elk River 7th Pooja Kasam, Eagan 8th Regan Van Avery, Elk River

Serious Interpretation - Drama 1st Harrison Timm, Moorhead 2nd Hanna Olson, Eastview, Apple Valley 3rd Ellie Urista, Roseville Area 4th Audrey Schwartz, Eagan 5th Ani Heikkila, Roseville Area 6th Lily Kjos, Moorhead 7th Cooper Roberts, Apple Valley 8th Grace Guetschow, Mankato East

Serious Interpretation - Poetry 1st Sydney Turner, Chaska 2nd Ashley Green, Woodbury 3rd Kai Wilson, Eagan 4th Olivia Larson, Moorhead 5th Ankita Gurung, Lakeville North 6th Ramlah Mohamed, Blaine 7th Bella Merwin, Prior Lake 8th Manasa Yerriboyina, Rochester John Marshall

Serious Interpretation - Prose 1st Trevyn Pannhoff, Chanhassen 2nd Trinh Nguyen, Eagan 3rd Rachel Lanning, Willmar 4th Alyson Hasner, Lakeville North 5th Annika Kingsriter, Lakeville North 6th Maria Michaelson, Apple Valley 7th Colin Welna, Moorhead 8th Emily Melville, Apple Valley

Storytelling 1st Ella Erdahl, Eastview, Apple Valley 2nd Ella Schoberl, Chanhassen 3rd James Eiden, Eagan 4th William Laudon, Rochester Mayo 5th Makenzie Stockwell, Moorhead 6th Jada Lapastora, Eagan 7th Marina Deutsch, Lakeville North 8th Olivia Moeller, Mankato East

Congratulations Class AA

Medal Winners

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Link to the State Speech Archives: bit.ly/SpeechArchive

State Tournament ScheduleClass AA Tournament

Friday, April 23, 2021

3:30 p.m. . . . . . .Judges Meeting 3:30 p.m. . . . . . .Draw Events meetings with students (separate rooms in Zoom) 3:45 p.m. . . . . . .Draws begin for Storytelling, Extemporaneous Speaking, Extemporaneous Reading 4:00 p.m. . . . . . .All non-draw events - Round 1 begins 4:15 p.m. . . . . . .Draw events - Round 1 begins

5:15 p.m. . . . . . .Draws begin for Round 2 Draw Events 5:30 p.m. . . . . . .All non-draw events - Round 2 begins 5:45 p.m. . . . . . .Draw events - Round 2 begins

6:45 p.m. . . . . . .Draws begin for Round 3 Draw Events 7:00 p.m. . . . . . .All non-draw events - Round 3 begins 7:15 p.m. . . . . . .Draw events - Round 3 begins

8:30 p.m. . . . . . .Draws begin for Final Rounds 8:30 p.m. . . . . . .All non-draw events - Final Rounds begin (there are 8 in Finals) 9:00 p.m. . . . . . .Draw events - Final Rounds begin (there are 8 in Finals)

10:45 p.m. . . . . . .Awards Presentation begins

Class A Tournament Saturday, April 24, 2021

9:00 a.m. . . . . . .Judges Meeting 9:00 a.m. . . . . . .Draw Events meetings with students (separate rooms in Zoom) 9:15 a.m. . . . . . .Draws begin for Storytelling, Extemporaneous Speaking, Extemporaneous Reading 9:30 a.m. . . . . . .All non-draw events - Round 1 begins 9:45 a.m. . . . . . .Draw events - Round 1 begins

10:45 a.m. . . . . . .Draws begin for Round 2 Draw Events 11:00 a.m. . . . . . .All non-draw events - Round 2 begins 11:15 a.m. . . . . . .Draw events - Round 2 begins

12:15 p.m. . . . . . .Draws begin for Round 3 Draw Events 12:30 p.m. . . . . . .All non-draw events - Round 3 begins 12:45 p.m. . . . . . .Draw events - Round 3 begins

MSCA meeting will happen virtually in this time space after Round 3 and before Final Rounds

2:15 p.m. . . . . . .Draws begin for Final Rounds 2:30 p.m. . . . . . .All non-draw events - Final Rounds begin (there are 8 in Finals) 2:45 p.m. . . . . . .Draw events - Final Rounds begin (there are 8 in Finals)

4:45 p.m. . . . . . .Awards Presentation begins

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Class AA Tournament

Round One – 4:00 p.m. Judge A: April Clark Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Olivia Kramer Elk River Object Impermanence 2 Luke Ostercamp Forest Lake The One Who Couldn’t Walk Away from Omelas 3 Hunter Fizel East Ridge, Woodbury The Most Wonderful Wonderful Times of the Year 4 Ethan Larson Moorhead Wheel of Species 5 Benjamin Gonyea Lakeville North A Golden Opportunity 6 Shivani Muthya Shakopee Enjoy the Ride

Judge B: Mikayla Curry Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Philsan Isaak Spring Lake Park Breaking the Broken 2 Tate Horan Moorhead Where Did My Childhood Go? 3 Shraddha Potti Wayzata How to Train Your Demon 4 Izzy Silvola Elk River Smells Like Social Justice 5 Nyah Massey DeLaSalle, Minneapolis I Dream of a Place 6 Josh Nkhata Mound Westonka Wack History Month

Judge C: Anjanette Kraus Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Elinor Sayers Lakeville North Walk A Mile in Heels 2 David Marlow St. Peter Sam Plytheworst’s Broken Hearts Club 3 Thor Reimann Eastview, Apple Valley The Memory Project 4 Jacob Parkinson Henry Sibley, Mendota Heights The Action Movie Cliche 5 Ore Fawole Park Center, Brooklyn Park Ore Fawole vs The World 6 Paige Lier Spring Lake Park Puppet Master

Judge D: Amy Vander Heiden Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Laine Bottemiller Prior Lake Perfection 2 Carter Bannwarth East Ridge, Woodbury Rose Colored Skotty 3 James Rende Willmar Mother Knows Best 4 Josie Harris Hermantown Tatterhood 5 Emily Nyberg Lakeville North A Pear Shaped Predicament 6 Ben Yu Wayzata The Life of Ping

CREATIVE EXPRESSION

*Denotes cooperatively sponsored program.

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Round Two – 5:30 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Jacob Parkinson 2 Emily Nyberg 3 Laine Bottemiller 4 Ore Fawole 5 Izzy Silvola 6 Luke Ostercamp

Order Speaker

1 Josie Harris 2 Benjamin Gonyea 3 Carter Bannwarth 4 Nyah Massey 5 Ethan Larson 6 David Marlow

Order Speaker

1 Tate Horan 2 Shivani Muthya 3 Olivia Kramer 4 Ben Yu 5 Elinor Sayers 6 Philsan Isaak

Order Speaker

1 Josh Nkhata 2 Shraddha Potti 3 Paige Lier 4 Hunter Fizel 5 James Rende 6 Thor Reimann

Judge A: Jack Gritzmacher

Judge B: Nick Ingles

Judge C: Ben Habegger

Judge D: Doug Smith

Round Three – 7:00 p.m.

Championship Round – 8:30 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Ben Yu 2 Ethan Larson 3 Elinor Sayers 4 Josh Nkhata 5 Laine Bottemiller 6 Jacob Parkinson

Order Speaker

1 Paige Lier 2 Nyah Massey 3 Emily Nyberg 4 David Marlow 5 Shraddha Potti 6 Olivia Kramer

Order Speaker

1 Thor Reimann 2 Izzy Silvola 3 Shivani Muthya 4 Luke Ostercamp 5 Tate Horan 6 Carter Bannwarth

Order Speaker

1 James Rende 2 Ore Fawole 3 Benjamin Gonyea 4 Philsan Isaak 5 Hunter Fizel 6 Josie Harris

Judge A: Linda Neugebauer

Judges: Jim Fedje Jodi Kyllonen Dale Neuschwander Priya Prashad Jan Urtel

Judge B: Stewart Wilson

Judge C: Jenn Baese

Judge D: Amy Buccek

Class AA Tournament

CREATIVE EXPRESSION

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Class AA Tournament

Round One – 4:00 p.m. Judge A: Rachel Schott Order Speaker School/Team

1 Liv Shaefer Chanhassen 2 Kaori Hirano Prior Lake 3 Miaya Volkman North Branch 4 Gracee Patel Wayzata 5 Iris Ming Moorhead 6 Noah McCreight Roseville Area

Judge B: Kristin Tupa Order Speaker School/Team

1 Suzy Haakonson Benilde-St. Margaret’s, St. Louis Park 2 Aysa Tarana Wayzata 3 Julia Schowalter Eagan 4 Shrenik Mamidala Shakopee 5 Sierra Pieper Rochester John Marshall 6 Allison Shore Stillwater Area

Judge C: Kathy Martin Order Speaker School/Team

1 Grace Roeder St. Cloud Tech 2 Edy McCurrie Stillwater Area 3 Nadia Kuxhausen Ralph Northfield 4 Kyle Wicht Elk River 5 Ellie Sprinthall Eagan 6 Allison Champ Eastview, Apple Valley

Judge D: Jan Urtel Order Speaker School/Team

1 Fardouza Farah Owatonna 2 Naomi Meints Duluth East 3 Kompal Kumar Wayzata 4 Anna Holk Chaska 5 Scout Holding Eagle-Bushaw Moorhead 6 Aerin Engelstad Eagan

DISCUSSION

*Denotes cooperatively sponsored program.

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Round Two – 5:30 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Kyle Wicht 2 Scout Holding

Eagle-Bushaw 3 Fardouza Farah 4 Ellie Sprinthall 5 Shrenik Mamidala 6 Kaori Hirano

Order Speaker

1 Anna Holk 2 Iris Ming 3 Naomi Meints 4 Sierra Pieper 5 Gracee Patel 6 Edy McCurrie

Order Speaker

1 Aysa Tarana 2 Noah McCreight 3 Liv Shaefer 4 Aerin Engelstad 5 Grace Roeder 6 Suzy Haakonson

Order Speaker

1 Allison Shore 2 Julia Schowalter 3 Allison Champ 4 Miaya Volkman 5 Kompal Kumar 6 Nadia Kuxhausen Ralph

Judge A: Mike Worcester

Judge B: Charles Cravens

Judge C: John Fogarty

Judge D: Thomas Lucas

Round Three – 7:00 p.m.

Championship Round – 8:30 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Aerin Engelstad 2 Gracee Patel 3 Grace Roeder 4 Allison Shore 5 Fardouza Farah 6 Kyle Wicht

Order Speaker

1 Allison Champ 2 Sierra Pieper 3 Scout Holding

Eagle-Bushaw 4 Edy McCurrie 5 Julia Schowalter 6 Liv Shaefer

Order Speaker

1 Nadia Kuxhausen Ralph 2 Shrenik Mamidala 3 Noah McCreight 4 Kaori Hirano 5 Aysa Tarana 6 Naomi Meints

Order Speaker

1 Kompal Kumar 2 Ellie Sprinthall 3 Iris Ming 4 Suzy Haakonson 5 Miaya Volkman 6 Anna Holk

Judge A: Matthew Kolstad

Judges: Travis Fick Angie Klein Cynthia Pope Katie Scholz Mark Thul

Judge B: Thor Mattick

Judge C: Chris McDonald

Judge D: Ryan Roseen

Class AA Tournament

DISCUSSION

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Class AA Tournament

Round One – 4:00 p.m. Judge A: Tim Newcomb Order Speakers School/Team Selection

1 Jaden VonBrethorst/Ryan Nash Hibbing The Big Bang by Jed Feurer and Boyd Graham 2 Alice Hovendon/Colin Roberts Eagan The Entire History of You by Jesse Armstrong 3 Olivia Hirschey/Olivia Dembouski St. Michael-Albertville Hitting on Women 101 by Bruce Kane 4 Frank Knier/Jonah Johnson Apple Valley A Steady Rain by Keith Huff 5 Cece Buesgen/Sofia Fritzke Jordan Extreme Fakeover by John C. Havens

Judge B: Alex Carlson Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Ben Lu/Reese Marcus Woodbury Lakewood by Megan Giddings 2 Bianca Mojica/Grace Ehrmantraut Benilde-St. Margaret's, The Rope Swings by Toni Wilson St. Louis Park 3 Alexander Bailey/Norah Shea Roseville Area Souvenir by Stephen Temperly 4 Zach Ploetz/Finnian Cleary Hermantown Captain Neat-O Man by Timothy Scott Harris 5 CeCe Bedore/Jack Nichol Moorhead 21 Chump Street by Lin-Manuel Miranda 6 Anna Haug/Annika Kjer Rochester John Marshall The Audition by Don Zolidis

Judge C: Ben Habegger Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Connor Luskey/Autumn Pesek Jordan Too Late for Sorry by Laurie Allen 2 Greta Homuth/Olivia Dahlberg Moorhead Freaky Friday by Heather Hach and Leslie Dixon 3 Isabel Chew/Shae Ramberg Maple Grove Flowers by Katherine Vaughan 4 Nathan Tomas/Peter Mundale Centennial The Lorax by Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) 5 Lars Andersen/Olma Wakjira Eagan A Time to Kill by John Grisham

Judge D: Luke Ostrander Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Heidi Danielson/Bryce Paulson Sauk Rapids-Rice The Emerald Circle by Max Bush 2 Abby Karger/Sydney Amundson St. Michael-Albertville Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax by Cinco Paul & Ken Daurio 3 Jasmine Haidar/Laura Schile Eastview, Apple Valley The Miracle Worker by William Gibson 4 Rachel Watson/Ella Orvik Cambridge-Isanti Around the World in a Bad Mood by Renee Foss 5 Seth Worden/Kate Moch Mound Westonka Little Footsteps by Ted Tally 6 Kate DeMuth/Nina Broberg Centennial, Circle Pines Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spiegel

DUO INTERPRETATION

*Denotes cooperatively sponsored program.

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Round Two – 5:30 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Chew/Ramberg 2 Worden/Moch 3 Danielson/Paulson 4 Tomas/Mundale 5 Ploetz/Cleary 6 Hovendon/Roberts

Order Speaker

1 Watson/Orvik 2 Buesgen/Fritzke 3 Karger/Amundson 4 Bedore/Nichol 5 Knier/Johnson

Order Speaker

1 Mojica/Ehrmantraut 2 VonBrethorst/Nash 3 DeMuth/Broberg 4 Luskey/Pesek 5 Lu/Marcus

Order Speaker

1 Haug/Kjer 2 Bailey/Shea 3 Andersen/Wakjira 4 Hirschey/Dembouski 5 Haidar/Schile 6 Homuth/Dahlberg

Judge A: Rebecca Meyer-Larson

Judge B: Kathleen Keech

Judge C: Terri Leonard

Judge D: Cathy Anderson

Round Three – 7:00 p.m.

Championship Round – 8:30 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 DeMuth/Broberg 2 Knier/Johnson 3 Luskey/Pesek 4 Haug/AKjer 5 Danielson/Paulson 6 Chew/Ramberg

Order Speaker

1 Andersen/Wakjira 2 Bedore/Nichol 3 Worden/Moch 4 Bailey/Shea 5 VonBrethorst/Nash

Order Speaker

1 Homuth/Dahlberg 2 Ploetz/Cleary 3 Hovendon/Roberts 4 Mojica/Ehrmantraut 5 Karger/Amundson

Order Speaker

1 Haidar/Schile 2 Tomas/Mundale 3 Buesgen/Fritzke 4 Lu/Marcus 5 Hirschey/Dembouski 6 Watson/Orvik

Judge A: Jodene Wartman

Judges: Jenn Baese Amy Buccek Nick Ingles Anjanette Kraus Jerrod Nelson

Judge B: Jennifer Kulm

Judge C: Suzanne White

Judge D: Joni Anker

Class AA Tournament

DUO INTERPRETATION

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Class AA Tournament

Round One – 4:15 p.m. Judge A: Ross Eichele Order Speaker School/Team

1 Enya Brett East Ridge, Woodbury 2 Reilly Sullivan Chisago Lakes, Lindstrom 3 Leah Meseck Rogers 4 Nitiya Arun Shakopee 5 Kat Kruse Farmington 6 Olivia Beach Eastview, Apple Valley

Judge B: Jerrod Nelson Order Speaker School/Team

1 Abby Charleson Elk River 2 Amanda Christensen Chanhassen 3 Seema Mustafa Moorhead 4 Natalie Rosheim East Ridge, Woodbury 5 Erica Bartkey Stillwater Area 6 Hanisa Pasupuleti Eastview, Apple Valley

Judge C: John Fogarty Order Speaker School/Team

1 Megan Copeland Owatonna 2 Ritisha Senapati Eastview, Apple Valley 3 Lulu Schirmacher Fridley 4 Shreya Kakkad Wayzata 5 Kaylin Patrick Moorhead 6 Clara Anderson Elk River

Judge D: Ryan Roseen Order Speaker School/Team

1 Kyra Kellogg Stillwater Area 2 Pooja Shah Blaine 3 Mia Middelton Orono 4 Bridget Schaber Eagan 5 Elise Olson Northfield 6 Ella Roggeman St. Cloud Tech

EXTEMPORANEOUS READING

*Denotes cooperatively sponsored program.

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Round Two – 5:45 p.m.

Class AA Tournament

EXTEMPORANEOUS READING

Order Speaker

1 Shreya Kakkad 2 Elise Olson 3 Kyra Kellogg 4 Kaylin Patrick 5 Natalie Rosheim 6 Reilly Sullivan

Order Speaker

1 Bridget Schaber 2 Kat Kruse 3 Pooja Shah 4 Erica Bartkey 5 Nitiya Arun 6 Ritisha Senapati

Order Speaker

1 Amanda Christensen 2 Olivia Beach 3 Enya Brett 4 Ella Roggeman 5 Megan Copeland 6 Abby Charleson

Order Speaker

1 Hanisa Pasupuleti 2 Seema Mustafa 3 Clara Anderson 4 Leah Meseck 5 Mia Middelton 6 Lulu Schirmacher

Judge A: Kathy Martin

Judge B: Carol Sylvester

Judge C: Priya Prashad

Judge D: Jessica Fedje

Round Three – 7:15 p.m.

Championship Round – 9:00 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Ella Roggeman 2 Nitiya Arun 3 Megan Copeland 4 Hanisa Pasupuleti 5 Kyra Kellogg 6 Shreya Kakkad

Order Speaker

1 Clara Anderson 2 Erica Bartkey 3 Elise Olson 4 Ritisha Senapati 5 Seema Mustafa 6 Enya Brett

Order Speaker

1 Lulu Schirmacher 2 Natalie Rosheim 3 Olivia Beach 4 Reilly Sullivan 5 Amanda Christensen 6 Pooja Shah

Order Speaker

1 Mia Middelton 2 Kaylin Patrick 3 Kat Kruse 4 Abby Charleson 5 Leah Meseck 6 Bridget Schaber

Judge A: Cynthia Pope

Judges: Patricia Neuschwander Sandy Nieland Pam Tvedt Suzanne White Mike Worcester

Judge B: Ceil McDonald

Judge C: Amy French

Judge D: Katie Scholz

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Round One – 4:15 p.m. Judge A: Mike Wartman Order Speaker School/Team

1 Agrim Joshi Shakopee 2 Minkai Li Woodbury 3 Tharika Arunkumar Lakeville North 4 Meryl Tigenoah Brainerd 5 Soren Peterson Stillwater Area 6 Angelo Vita Princeton

Judge B: Rick Purrington Order Speaker School/Team

1 Bianca Turman Eagan 2 Jackson Poetz St. Cloud Tech 3 Samay Gandhi Wayzata 4 Evan Violette Chanhassen 5 Vikash Giritharan Eastview, Apple Valley 6 Andrew Christopherson Elk River

Judge C: Cheryl Neidt Order Speaker School/Team

1 Ava Roots Stillwater Area 2 Samantha Lindberg St. Francis 3 Allison Hering Eastview, Apple Valley 4 Rachna Balasubramanian Lakeville North 5 Trinity Hanif St. Michael-Albertville 6 Aaron Rajput Henry Sibley, Mendota Heights

Judge D: Robert French Order Speaker School/Team

1 Jackie Bucaro Benilde-St. Margaret’s, St. Louis Park 2 George Faseemo Rochester John Marshall 3 Amy Frenzel Bemidji 4 Gavin Davis Mankato East 5 Gursimrat Dahry Stillwater Area 6 Jake Phillips Andover

EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING

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Round Two – 5:45 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Rachna Balasubramanian

2 Gursimrat Dahry 3 Jackie Bucaro 4 Trinity Hanif 5 Evan Violette 6 Minkai Li

Order Speaker

1 Gavin Davis 2 Soren Peterson 3 George Faseemo 4 Vikash Giritharan 5 Meryl Tigenoah 6 Samantha Lindberg

Order Speaker

1 Jackson Poetz 2 Angelo Vita 3 Agrim Joshi 4 Jake Phillips 5 Ava Roots 6 Bianca Turman

Order Speaker

1 Andrew Christopherson 2 Samay Gandhi 3 Aaron Rajput 4 Tharika Arunkumar 5 Amy Frenzel 6 Allison Hering

Judge A: Angie Klein

Judge B: Ceil McDonald

Judge C: Kristin Tupa

Judge D: Laura Hammond

Round Three – 7:15 p.m.

Championship Round – 9:00 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Jake Phillips 2 Meryl Tigenoah 3 Ava Roots 4 Andrew Christopherson 5 Jackie Bucaro 6 Rachna

Balasubramanian

Order Speaker

1 Aaron Rajput 2 Vikash Giritharan 3 Gursimrat Dahry 4 Samantha Lindberg 5 Samay Gandhi 6 Agrim Joshi

Order Speaker

1 Allison Hering 2 Evan Violette 3 Angelo Vita 4 Minkai Li 5 Jackson Poetz 6 George Faseemo

Order Speaker

1 Amy Frenzel 2 Trinity Hanif 3 Soren Peterson 4 Bianca Turman 5 Tharika Arunkumar 6 Gavin Davis

Judge A: Tom Backen

Judges: Charles Cravens Amy French Dan Olson Carol Sylvester Andrew Tichy

Judge B: Ross Eichele

Judge C: Mark Thul

Judge D: Mike Worcester

Class AA Tournament

EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING

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Round One – 4:00 p.m. Judge A: Tom Backen Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Avani Deglurkar Wayzata Sports has the Potential to Empower Women and Girls by Lakshmi Puri

2 Tommy White Stillwater Area Testimony at the Sentencing of Larry Nassar by Aly Raisman 3 Macy Larson Moorhead Remarks on the Paycheck Fairness Act by Sen. Elizabeth Warren 4 John Novack Eagan DEUS VULT by Pope Urban II 5 Nimisha Bora Eastview, Apple Valley New Nationalism by Teddy Roosevelt 6 Amy Laabs Chanhassen The Misogyny Speech by Julia Gillard

Judge B: Chris McDonald Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Jomi Omoya Roseville Area The Other America by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 2 Anna Adamson Woodbury Using Your Voice is a Political Choice by Amanda Gorman 3 Maimuna Aden Rochester John Marshall House Floor Speech on Yoho Remarks July 23 by Alexandria

Ocasio-Cortez 4 Diya Kayaleh Wayzata Remember the Living by Queen Rania of Jordan 5 Elayna Hewitt Hermantown The Struggle for Human Rights, Paris, France, September 28,

1948 by Eleanor Roosevelt 6 Zoe Vorbach Marshall The Man with the Muck-rake by Theodore Roosevelt

Judge C: Katie Scholz Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Sudeeksha Nooka Eden Prairie Remarks on the Assassination of MLK by Robert Francis Kennedy 2 Charli Miller Chanhassen I Want a 24 Hour Truce by Andrea Dworkin 3 Isabel Roiland Elk River Julia Gillard’s Misogyny Speech by Julia Gillard 4 Beth Stein Moorhead Response to Rep. Ted Yoho by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 5 Adriann Drenk Lakeville North Donald Trump Riot Speech by Donald Trump 6 Gracyn Delaune Mounds View The Gates to Freedom by Angela Davis

Judge D: Suzanne White Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Natalie Miller Duluth East 1988 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address by Ann Richards

2 Martan Gregoire Moorhead The Hope Speech by Harvey Milk 3 Heden Abdulahi Eagan Yippie Workshop by Abbie Hoffman 4 Emma Cliff St. Michael-Albertville I Tell What I Have Seen by Dorothea Dix 5 Wanwa Omot Eastview, Apple Valley Declaration of Conscience by Margaret Chase Smith 6 Shania VanLewin Lakeville North First Senate speech on Immigrants by Kamala Harris

GREAT SPEECHES

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Round Two – 5:30 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Beth Stein 2 Wanwa Omot 3 Natalie Miller 4 Adriann Drenk 5 Diya Kayaleh 6 Tommy White

Order Speaker

1 Emma Cliff 2 Nimisha Bora 3 Martan Gregoire 4 Elayna Hewitt 5 John Novack 6 Charli Miller

Order Speaker

1 Anna Adamson 2 Amy Laabs 3 Avani Deglurkar 4 Shania VanLewin 5 Sudeeksha Nooka 6 Jomi Omoya

Order Speaker

1 Zoe Vorbach 2 Maimuna Aden 3 Gracyn Delaune 4 Macy Larson 5 Heden Abdulahi 6 Isabel Roiland

Judge A: Jodi Kyllonen

Judge B: Jenn Baese

Judge C: Amy Vander Heiden

Judge D: Audrey French

Round Three – 7:00 p.m.

Championship Round – 8:30 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Shania VanLewin 2 John Novack 3 Sudeeksha Nooka 4 Zoe Vorbach 5 Natalie Miller 6 Beth Stein

Order Speaker

1 Gracyn Delaune 2 Elayna Hewitt 3 Wanwa Omot 4 Charli Miller 5 Maimuna Aden 6 Avani Deglurkar

Order Speaker

1 Isabel Roiland 2 Diya Kayaleh 3 Amy Laabs 4 Tommy White 5 Anna Adamson 6 Martan Gregoire

Order Speaker

1 Heden Abdulahi 2 Adriann Drenk 3 Nimisha Bora 4 Jomi Omoya 5 Macy Larson 6 Emma Cliff

Judge A: Charles Cravens

Judges: John Fogarty Kathy Martin Jason Olson Lori Shoberg Kristin Tupa

Judge B: Mike Wartman

Judge C: Travis Fick

Judge D: Robert French

Class AA Tournament

GREAT SPEECHES

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Round One – 4:00 p.m. Judge A: Dale Neuschwander Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Natalie Engh East Ridge, Woodbury The Girl Who Would be King by Jen O’Connor 2 Gabby Rosen Andover I Hate Other People’s Kids by Adrianne Frost 3 Trinity Thorstad Jordan Hopeless Hamlet by Wade Bradford 4 Aiden Clayburn Lakeville North Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed by Mo Willems 5 Madeline Rock Apple Valley How I Survived Camp Cooties by Megan Orr 6 Drew Aldrich Hibbing Jimmy The Antichrist by Keith Powell

Judge B: Stewart Wilson Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Nik Bragg Anoka The Producers by Mel Brooks 2 Jacob Miller Lakeville North Office Space by Miks Judge 3 Anika Drees Moorhead A League of Their Own by Lowell Ganz 4 Sarah Zenaye Woodbury The Good Place by Michael Shur 5 Owen Reynolds-Lillibridge Centennial, Circle Pines Space Balls by Mel Brooks, Ronny Graham, and Thomas Meehan 6 Amma Okoro Duluth East How to Write Suspense by James Pinkerton

Judge C: Mark Thul Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Ellie Scheldberg Burnsville Mary Choppins by Frank Joseph 2 Joey Kirk Zimmerman School of Rock by Mike White 3 Paige Klemenhagen Stillwater Area Legally Blonde: The Musical by Heather Hatch 4 Maddy Siekmann Chaska Thomas Brady’s First Day of Kindergarten by Chris & Ryan

Wilkins 5 Maret Holm Moorhead Stand By Me by Raynold Gideon and Bruce Evans 6 Reid Wilson Dassel-Cokato How I Got My Superpower by John C. Havens

Judge D: Jason Olson Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Josie Brody Mounds View Sports Night by Aaron Sorkin 2 Madeleine Dore Orono Future is in Your Tiny Hands by Jonathan Rand 3 Julia Christenson Owatonna Sealed for Freshness by Doug Stone 4 Quinn Hendel Henry Sibley, Mendota Heights Animals by Simon Rich 5 Sophie Todaro Apple Valley Homeschooled by Jason Pizzarello 6 Leif Carlson Moorhead Malcolm in the Middle by Linwood Bloomer

HUMOROUS INTERPRETATION

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Round Two – 5:30 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Maddy Siekmann 2 Sophie Todaro 3 Josie Brody 4 Maret Holm 5 Sarah Zenaye 6 Gabby Rosen

Order Speaker

1 Quinn Hendel 2 Madeline Rock 3 Madeleine Dore 4 Owen Reynolds-

Lillibridge 5 Aiden Clayburn 6 Joey Kirk

Order Speaker

1 Jacob Miller 2 Drew Aldrich 3 Natalie Engh 4 Leif Carlson 5 Ellie Scheldberg 6 Nik Bragg

Order Speaker

1 Amma Okoro 2 Anika Drees 3 Reid Wilson 4 Trinity Thorstad 5 Julia Christenson 6 Paige Klemenhagen

Judge A: Alex Carlson

Judge B: Amy Buccek

Judge C: Luke Ostrander

Judge D: Jennifer Kulm

Round Three – 7:00 p.m.

Championship Round – 8:30 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Leif Carlson 2 Aiden Clayburn 3 Ellie Scheldberg 4 Amma Okoro 5 Josie Brody 6 Maddy Siekmann

Order Speaker

1 Reid Wilson 2 Owen Reynolds-

Lillibridge 3 Sophie Todaro 4 Joey Kirk 5 Anika Drees 6 Natalie Engh

Order Speaker

1 Paige Klemenhagen 2 Sarah Zenaye 3 Drew Aldrich 4 Gabby Rosen 5 Jacob Miller 6 Madeleine Dore

Order Speaker

1 Julia Christenson 2 Maret Holm 3 Madeline Rock 4 Nik Bragg 5 Trinity Thorstad 6 Quinn Hendel

Judge A: Kathleen Keech

Judges: Cathy Anderson Joni Anker April Clark Thor Mattick Tim Newcomb

Judge B: Lori Shoberg

Judge C: Jessica Fedje

Judge D: Patricia Neuschwander

Class AA Tournament

HUMOROUS INTERPRETATION

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Round One – 4:00 p.m. Judge A: Lori Shoberg Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Annika Fredeen Stillwater Area Full Circle 2 Sam Peterson Elk River Not Your Average Summer Camp 3 Blake Duea Chanhassen Boy Friends 4 Ingrid Rygg Moorhead Dead Girl Walking 5 Ainsley Plucker Eastview, Apple Valley Who Run the World? 6 Allison Benjamin East Ridge, Woodbury I Can See Tear-ly Now

Judge B: Carol Sylvester Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Lucy Leither Elk River Prince Charming(s) 2 Asli Abdi Willmar The Girl Who Yells A Lot 3 Katelyn Caulder Lakeville North As Good As Gold 4 Beatrice Handlin White Bear Lake Area Brr, It’s Kinda Chilly in Here! 5 Sanjali Subash Wayzata Dye-ing to be Attractive 6 Anneteke Adoga Woodbury The Color of Law

Judge C: Joni Anker Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Sophie Green Apple Valley Liquid Gold 2 Holly Restad East Ridge, Woodbury The Yuck Factor 3 Talha Rao Blaine Eurocentric Beauty Standards 4 Abby Newman Chanhassen Like a Virgin 5 Audrey Bowen Lakeville North Male Bodies: We Are At Your Cervix 6 Dominic Laudenbach St. Francis Pirates: Fact vs. Fiction

Judge D: Jennifer Burnside Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Lacey Anderson Wayzata Lounging Around 2 Lauren Manna Chanhassen Bitch, Please! 3 Greta Cole Moorhead Did You Hear What I Am Not Saying? 4 Harini Avula Mounds View Prison Labor Through the Years 5 Ceceilia Voss Apple Valley Work Worth Seeking 6 Lauren McCutcheon Lakeville North I’m Not Ovary-acting

INFORMATIVE SPEAKING

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Round Two – 5:30 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Abby Newman 2 Ceceilia Voss 3 Lacey Anderson 4 Audrey Bowen 5 Beatrice Handlin 6 Sam Peterson

Order Speaker

1 Harini Avula 2 Ainsley Plucker 3 Lauren Manna 4 Sanjali Subash 5 Ingrid Rygg 6 Holly Restad

Order Speaker

1 Asli Abdi 2 Allison Benjamin 3 Annika Fredeen 4 Lauren McCutcheon 5 Sophie Green 6 Lucy Leither

Order Speaker

1 Anneteke Adoga 2 Katelyn Caulder 3 Dominic Laudenbach 4 Blake Duea 5 Greta Cole 6 Talha Rao

Judge A: Andrew Tichy

Judge B: Travis Fick

Judge C: Mike Wartman

Judge D: Dan Olson

Round Three – 7:00 p.m.

Championship Round – 8:30 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Lauren McCutcheon 2 Ingrid Rygg 3 Sophie Green 4 Anneteke Adoga 5 Lacey Anderson 6 Abby Newman

Order Speaker

1 Dominic Laudenbach 2 Sanjali Subash 3 Ceceilia Voss 4 Holly Restad 5 Katelyn Caulder 6 Annika Fredeen

Order Speaker

1 Talha Rao 2 Beatrice Handlin 3 Allison Benjamin 4 Sam Peterson 5 Asli Abdi 6 Lauren Manna

Order Speaker

1 Greta Cole 2 Audrey Bowen 3 Ainsley Plucker 4 Lucy Leither 5 Blake Duea 6 Harini Avula

Judge A: Rachel Schott

Judges: Ross Eichel Jill Lofald Thomas Lucas Ceil McDonald Amy Vander Heiden

Judge B: Cheryl Neidt

Judge C: Jerrod Nelson

Judge D: Roxy Janke

Class AA Tournament

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Round One – 4:00 p.m. Judge A: Jill Lofald Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Regan VanAvery Elk River Let’s Talk About Sex 2 Lydia Voss Apple Valley Good Grief 3 Gintare Piscikaite Lakeville North Not Just the Comics 4 Annika Wulf Mound Westonka Is Nihilism Worth Caring About? 5 Victoria Pomalath East Ridge, Woodbury A Spoonful of Sugar 6 India Carlson Moorhead Misgiving

Judge B: Amy Buccek Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Jihan Abdi Apple Valley A Promethean Task 2 Lillian Guggisberg Marshall The Vikings, the Packers, and Our Politics 3 Belle Lapos Stillwater Area Becky and Chad are Suspiciously Quiet! 4 Grace Stoehr Chisago Lakes, Lindstrom Conspiracies and You 5 Manasi Nagargoje Wayzata Women Empowerment: From Broadway to the Boardroom 6 Grace Halvorson Moorhead Watering the Giving Tree

Judge C: Angie Klein Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Pooja Kasam Eagan The Right Word for It 2 Maya Weiler Moorhead See US: Indigenous Invisibility 3 Dylan Tessmer Dassel-Cokato Breaking the Act 4 Grace Bowen Lakeville North Scarletrocious 5 Ash Koncar Roseville Area Fat, Not Fiction 6 Anisha Singhatwadia Eden Prairie Music To Our Ears

Judge D: Jodi Kyllonen Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Fatima Koroma Robbinsdale Cooper The American Dream, one size doesn’t fit all 2 Krystal Mutebi Lakeville North Implicit Bias: The Sickness in Need of a Cure 3 Neha Patole Shakopee The Loneliness Pandemic 4 Priestley Ayumba Elk River DARE to Care 5 Jason Chang East Ridge, Woodbury The (Not So) Universal Human Experience 6 Anika Haley Forest Lake No One’s As Exceptional As Gaston

ORIGINAL ORATORY

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Round Two – 5:30 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Grace Bowen 2 Jason Chang 3 Fatima Koroma 4 Ash Koncar 5 Grace Stoehr 6 Lydia Voss

Order Speaker

1 Priestley Ayumba 2 Victoria Pomalath 3 Krystal Mutebi 4 Manasi Nagargoje 5 Annika Wulf 6 Maya Weiler

Order Speaker

1 Lillian Guggisberg 2 India Carlson 3 Regan VanAvery 4 Anika Haley 5 Pooja Kasam 6 Jihan Abdi

Order Speaker

1 Grace Halvorson 2 Belle Lapos 3 Anisha Singhatwadia 4 Gintare Piscikaite 5 Neha Patole 6 Dylan Tessmer

Judge A: Chris McDonald

Judge B: Mikayla Curry

Judge C: Jan Urtel

Judge D: Lori Constable

Round Three – 7:00 p.m.

Championship Round – 8:30 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Anika Haley 2 Annika Wulf 3 Pooja Kasam 4 Grace Halvorson 5 Fatima Koroma 6 Grace Bowen

Order Speaker

1 Anisha Singhatwadia 2 Manasi Nagargoje 3 Jason Chang 4 Maya Weiler 5 Belle Lapos 6 Regan VanAvery

Order Speaker

1 Dylan Tessmer 2 Grace Stoehr 3 India Carlson 4 Lydia Voss 5 Lillian Guggisberg 6 Krystal Mutebi

Order Speaker

1 Neha Patole 2 Ash Koncar 3 Victoria Pomalath 4 Jihan Abdi 5 Gintare Piscikaite 6 Priestley Ayumba

Judge A: Thomas Lucas

Judges: Tom Backen Robert French Cheryl Neidt Ryan Roseen Rachel Schott

Judge B: Rick Purrington

Judge C: John Fogarty

Judge D: Andrew Tichy

Class AA Tournament

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Round One – 4:00 p.m. Judge A: Doug Smith Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Ashlyn Cox Farmington Accidently Brave by Maddie Corman 2 Grace Guetschow Mankato East The Wrong Kind of Nightmare by Pamela Love. 3 Lily Kjos Moorhead Queen Ester by Michele Lowe 4 Hanna Olson Eastview, Apple Valley Girls & Boys by Dennis Kelly 5 Beron De Armond Duluth East Bitter Disappointment by Bradley Walton

Judge B: Rebecca Meyer-Larson Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Katie Jiran Chaska Girl by Megan Mostyn-Brown 2 Zoe Lewis Burnsville My Knight in Dull Armour by Pete Malicki 3 Ani Heikkila Roseville Area People, Places and Things by Duncan Macmillan 4 Jackson Hemann Owatonna I Hate This (A Play Without the Baby) by David Hansen 5 Nora Welp Woodbury Our Normal by Mary Archbold 6 Joseph Warner Duluth East Free Churro by Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Judge C: Sandy Nieland Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Annika Soderlund Dassel-Cokato Recognition by Patrick Gabridge 2 Madeline Watts Duluth Denfeld Spoonface Steinberg by Lee Hall 3 Audrey Schwartz Eagan Apples in Winter by Jennifer Fawcett 4 Stella Mehlhoff Moorhead Accidentally Brave by Maddie Corman 5 Ellie Urista Roseville Area Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan 6 Lexi Ostvig Orono And Baby Makes 2 by Nanci Christopher

Judge D: Jack Gritzmacher Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Tori Barone Woodbury What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schreck 2 Harrison Timm Moorhead Video Essay by Ryan Cross 3 Cooper Roberts Apple Valley My Life by Bruce Joel Rubin 4 Alaina Deutsch Lakeville North The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 5 Prem Ganesan Wayzata Draw the Circle by Mashuq Mushtaq Deen 6 Jillian Schotters Centennial, Circle Pines Staph Infection from Commencement by Clay McLeod Chapman

SERIOUS INTERPRETATION OF DRAMA

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Round Two – 5:30 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Stella Mehlhoff 2 Prem Ganesan 3 Tori Barone 4 Ellie Urista 5 Jackson Hemann 6 Grace Guetschow

Order Speaker

1 Alaina Deutsch 2 Harrison Timm 3 Nora Welp 4 Hanna Olson 5 Madeline Watts

Order Speaker

1 Zoe Lewis 2 Beron De Armond 3 Ashlyn Cox 4 Jillian Schotters 5 Annika Soderlund 6 Katie Jiran

Order Speaker

1 Joseph Warner 2 Ani Heikkila 3 Lexi Ostvig 4 Lily Kjos 5 Cooper Roberts 6 Audrey Schwartz

Judge A: Jim Fedje

Judge B: Tim Newcomb

Judge C: Bret Hemmerlin

Judge D: Rick Purrington

Round Three – 7:00 p.m.

Championship Round – 8:30 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Jillian Schotters 2 Hanna Olson 3 Annika Soderlund 4 Joseph Warner 5 Tori Barone 6 Stella Mehlhoff

Order Speaker

1 Lexi Ostvig 2 Nora Welp 3 Prem Ganesan 4 Madeline Watts 5 Ani Heikkila 6 Ashlyn Cox

Order Speaker

1 Audrey Schwartz 2 Jackson Hemann 3 Beron De Armond 4 Grace Guetschow 5 Zoe Lewis 6 Harrison Timm

Order Speaker

1 Cooper Roberts 2 Ellie Urista 3 Katie Jiran 4 Lily Kjos 5 Alaina Deutsch

Judge A: Jennifer Burnside

Judges: Lori Constable Ben Habegger Laura Hammond Linda Neugebauer Stewart Wilson

Judge B: Margaret Shelby

Judge C: Jill Lofald

Judge D: Priya Prashad

Class AA Tournament

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Round One – 4:00 p.m. Judge A: Jodene Wartman Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Olivia Larson Moorhead The Standards I am Held To: a poetry program 2 Manasa Yerriboyina Rochester John Marshall The Hill We Climb, We Weep With the Moon: Dedication to Benazir Bhutto, Who's Yellen

Now, Notorious (R.B.G.), DR. BIDEN. PERIOD by Amanda Gorman, ears2hearyou, Dessa, Leslé Honoré, Leslé Honoré

3 Molly Siedlecki Cambridge-Isanti Gender Identity, A Poetry Program by Andrea Gibson 4 Shree Ganesan Wayzata This Home is Empty by Various 5 Sebastian Matte Eastview, Apple Valley Control Alt Delete: A Program Featuring “Touchscreen”, “Look Up”, “Genuine

Connections”, and “The Internet Speaks Back to the Author” by Selected Poems by Marshall Davis Jones, Gary Turk, Tyler Knott Gregson, and Phil Kaye

6 Sarah Aspelin Chanhassen Do No Harm by Various Authors

Judge B: Cathy Anderson Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Sophia Trenary Farmington Gaslight: A Program by Tatyana Brown, Lyd Havens, Rachel McKibbens, Edwin Bodney, Natasha Hooper, Bianca Phipps, Karina Stow

2 Ramlah Mohamed Blaine To be a Black Woman and Breathing: A Poetry Program by Alyesha Wise, Porsha Olayiwola, Shaspray, and Crystal Valentine

3 Ellie Schneider Mounds View Mosaic, In the Event the Wind is Knocked Out of You, Stalling, Depression Has This in Common with Climate Change, Untitled, Anxiety Doesn’t Knock First, and Metaphors for Anxiety by Tim Siebles, Rachel Wiley, Catherine Keller, Aron Wander, Alicia Cook, B. Oakman, and Dezaray Barr

4 Emma Ahlin Little Falls In Front of the Class,” “Underdog”, and “Hips for the Hop” a poetry program from Learn then Burn by Bonafide Rojas, Ben Butter, and Dan Sully

5 Callie Peterson Woodbury How to Become a Girl by Various Authors 6 Sydney Turner Chaska Black To Life: A Program by Nayo Jones, Jae Nichelle, Jasmin Nicole, Alyesha Wise,

Ntozake Shange, Danez Smith, Solange Knowles

Judge C: Cynthia Pope Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Maliah Jaiteh Benilde-St. Margaret’s, American Normalcy: A Program Featuring “Let America Be America Again”, “Litany”, and St. Louis Park “American Greatness” by Langston Hughes, Mahongany L. Browne, C. James Henry 2 Ijahnae Cross Shakopee Burned Out by Phillip LaPorte, Sylvia Plath, Erin Hanson, Dodie Clark, Christina Rosseti,

Emily DIckson, Jennifer Moxely, Rupi Kaur 3 Kai Wilson Eagan Just A Typical Day (A Program): Social Media, How Do You Raise a Black Child, Internet

War, Glimpse of Reality, Lady Liberty, Citizen & songs by various artists by Reflectionzero, Courtney Lamar Jackson, Hailey Ngo, Danielle Bigsby, MV, Claudia Rankine, Meek Mill, Kendrick Lamar, and Childish Gambino

4 Emma Benjamin Princeton Assault By My Own Mind: A poetry program by Various Authors 5 Madi Quayle Centennial, Circle Pines Isolation, The Perfect Panic Attack, Maybe I am Lonely, and Healing by Dead Poetic,

Patrick Roche, Melissa Paiz, Nayo Jones 6 Ankita Gurung Lakeville North I Am Not Your Model Minority by Michael Chem, Jay Ojano, Alex Dang, and Rachel

Rostad

Judge D: Pam Tvedt Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Ashley Green Woodbury Porcelain by Various Authors 2 Maisie Gartner Cambridge-Isanti Ethan Jewell Poetry Program by Ethan Jewell 3 Srishti Brahmbhatt Wayzata Exotic by Various 4 Amelia Bailly Moorhead Pretty: a poetry program 5 Bella Merwin Prior Lake Exploited: A Program Featuring “I Want a Divorce”, “Lolita's Revenge”, “Sexualization”,

and “Fantastic Breasts and Where to Find Them” by Mark J. the Poet, Twoey Grey, Srryimlois, and Brenna Twohy

6 Sophie Kuether Columbia Heights I Think She Was a She, Abortion by Leyla Josephine, Eva Crespin and Mercedez Holtry

SERIOUS INTERPRETATION OF POETRY

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Round Two – 5:30 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Emma Benjamin 2 Bella Merwin 3 Ashley Green 4 Madi Quayle 5 Emma Ahlin 6 Manasa Yerriboyina

Order Speaker

1 Amelia Bailly 2 Sebastian Matte 3 Maisie Gartner 4 Callie Peterson 5 Shree Ganesan 6 Ijahnae Cross

Order Speaker

1 Ramlah Mohamed 2 Sarah Aspelin 3 Olivia Larson 4 Sophie Kuether 5 Maliah Jaiteh 6 Sophia Trenary

Order Speaker

1 Sydney Turner 2 Ellie Schneider 3 Ankita Gurung 4 Molly Siedlecki 5 Srishti Brahmbhatt 6 Kai Wilson

Judge A: Matthew Kolstad

Judge B: Thor Mattick

Judge C: Stewart Wilson

Judge D: Mark Thul

Round Three – 7:00 p.m.

Championship Round – 8:30 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Sophie Kuether 2 Shree Ganesan 3 Maliah Jaiteh 4 Sydney Turner 5 Ashley Green 6 Emma Benjamin

Order Speaker

1 Ankita Gurung 2 Callie Peterson 3 Bella Merwin 4 Ijahnae Cross 5 Ellie Schneider 6 Olivia Larson

Order Speaker

1 Kai Wilson 2 Emma Ahlin 3 Sarah Aspelin 4 Manasa Yerriboyina 5 Ramlah Mohamed 6 Maisie Gartner

Order Speaker

1 Srishti Brahmbhatt 2 Madi Quayle 3 Sebastian Matte 4 Sophia Trenary 5 Molly Siedlecki 6 Amelia Bailly

Judge A: Anjanette Kraus

Judges: Audrey French Jack Gritzmacher Roxy Janke Luke Ostrander Margaret Shelby

Judge B: Terri Leonard

Judge C: Rebecca Meyer-Larson

Judge D: Jodi Kyllonen

Class AA Tournament

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Round One – 4:00 p.m. Judge A: Lori Constable Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Alyson Hasner Lakeville North Pour Your Soul by Mira Ptacin 2 Emma Loretz Elk River Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan 3 Jessica Workman Dassel-Cokato Educated by Tara Westover 4 Emily Melville Apple Valley The Girl Without a Face by Randall and Hailey Hicks 5 Elizabeth Osborne Jordan Once More We Saw Stars by Jayson Greene 6 Nicole Thayer Forest Lake Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (As Told To Me)

Story by Bess Kalb

Judge B: Amy French Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Tessa Schauer Duluth Denfeld Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson 2 Morgan Oksendahl Eastview, Apple Valley Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller 3 Jay Tie Lakeville North The Bitter Taste of Dying by Jason Smith 4 Rachel Lanning Willmar Man of Steel by Joseph Conway 5 Wyatt Dierks Roseville Area Dry by Augusten Burroughs

Judge C: Patricia Neuschwander Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Landon Butler Hutchinson Boy Erased by Garrard Conley 2 Marit Hickey Stillwater Area Needles by Andie Dominick 3 Colin Welna Moorhead The Junkie and the Monk by Mike DeStafano 4 Reagan James Wayzata ADHD According to Zoe by Zoe Kessler 5 Trinh Nguyen Eagan Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao 6 Emma McCauley Elk River Dying to be Perfect by Susan Berry

Judge D: Laura Hammond Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Jordan Jensen Moorhead A Phone Call by Auburn Sandstrom 2 Sakthika Vijay Wayzata The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo 3 Maria Michaelson Apple Valley Inside Out by Demi Moore 4 Annika Kingsriter Lakeville North Now I See You by Nicole Kear 5 Trevyn Pannhoff Chanhassen Ghost Boy by Martin Pistorius 6 Evelyn Gore Eagan What is a Girl Worth by Rachael Denhollander

SERIOUS INTERPRETATION OF PROSE

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Round Two – 5:30 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Reagan James 2 Trevyn Pannhoff 3 Jordan Jensen 4 Trinh Nguyen 5 Jay Tie 6 Emma Loretz

Order Speaker

1 Annika Kingsriter 2 Elizabeth Osborne 3 Sakthika Vijay 4 Rachel Lanning 5 Emily Melville 6 Marit Hickey

Order Speaker

1 Morgan Oksendahl 2 Nicole Thayer 3 Alyson Hasner 4 Evelyn Gore 5 Landon Butler 6 Tessa Schauer

Order Speaker

1 Wyatt Dierks 2 Emma McCauley 3 Jessica Workman 4 Maria Michaelson 5 Colin Welna

Judge A: Roxy Janke

Judge B: Jodene Wartman

Judge C: Margaret Shelby

Judge D: Sandy Nieland

Round Three – 7:00 p.m.

Championship Round – 8:30 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Evelyn Gore 2 Emily Melville 3 Landon Butler 4 Wyatt Dierks 5 Jordan Jensen 6 Reagan James

Order Speaker

1 Emma McCauley 2 Rachel Lanning 3 Trevyn Pannhoff 4 Marit Hickey 5 Alyson Hasner

Order Speaker

1 Colin Welna 2 Jay Tie 3 Nicole Thayer 4 Emma Loretz 5 Morgan Oksendahl 6 Sakthika Vijay

Order Speaker

1 Maria Michaelson 2 Trinh Nguyen 3 Elizabeth Osborne 4 Tessa Schauer 5 Jessica Workman 6 Annika Kingsriter

Judge A: Dale Neuschwander

Judges: Kathleen Keech Jennifer Kulm Terri Leonard Rick Purrington Doug Smith

Judge B: Jason Olson

Judge C: Dan Olson

Judge D: Tim Newcomb

Class AA Tournament

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Class AA Tournament

Round One – 4:15 p.m. Judge A: Nick Ingles Order Speaker School/Team

1 Lillie Poetz St. Cloud Tech 2 Ria Koppikar Eastview, Apple Valley 3 Shweta Shankar Wayzata 4 Jessica Swenson Centennial, Circle Pines 5 Kiley Snobeck Farmington 6 Ella Schoberl Chanhassen

Judge B: Jim Fedje Order Speaker School/Team

1 Ella Erdahl Eastview, Apple Valley 2 Brendon Rich Stillwater Area 3 Jada Lapastora Eagan 4 Leah Donnelly St. Cloud Tech 5 Alisa Foede Princeton 6 Jillian Dore Orono

Judge C: Thor Mattick Order Speaker School/Team

1 William Laudon Rochester Mayo 2 Olivia Moeller Mankato East 3 Alyson Miskowic Elk River 4 Micah Allen Coon Rapids 5 James Eiden Eagan 6 Akansha Kamineni Eastview, Apple Valley

Judge D: Bret Hemmerlin Order Speaker School/Team

1 Jenna Anderson Cambridge-Isanti 2 Dylan Rich St. Michael-Albertville 3 Amanda Miller Centennial, Circle Pines 4 Makenzie Stockwell Moorhead 5 Marina Deutsch Lakeville North 6 Kayli Breen Eagan

STORYTELLING

*Denotes cooperatively sponsored program.

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Round Two – 5:45 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Micah Allen 2 Marina Deutsch 3 Jenna Anderson 4 James Eiden 5 Leah Donnelly 6 Ria Koppikar

Order Speaker

1 Makenzie Stockwell 2 Kiley Snobeck 3 Dylan Rich 4 Alisa Foede 5 Jessica Swenson 6 Olivia Moeller

Order Speaker

1 Brendon Rich 2 Ella Schoberl 3 Lillie Poetz 4 Kayli Breen 5 William Laudon 6 Ella Erdahl

Order Speaker

1 Jillian Dore 2 Jada Lapastora 3 Akansha Kamineni 4 Shweta Shankar 5 Amanda Miller 6 Alyson Miskowic

Judge A: Cynthia Pope

Judge B: Patricia Neuschwander

Judge C: Amy French

Judge D: Linda Neugebauer

Round Three – 7:15 p.m.

Championship Round – 900 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Kayli Breen 2 Jessica Swenson 3 William Laudon 4 Jillian Dore 5 Jenna Anderson 6 Micah Allen

Order Speaker

1 Akansha Kamineni 2 Alisa Foede 3 Marina Deutsch 4 Olivia Moeller 5 Jada Lapastora 6 Lillie Poetz

Order Speaker

1 Alyson Miskowic 2 Leah Donnelly 3 Ella Schoberl 4 Ria Koppikar 5 Brendon Rich 6 Dylan Rich

Order Speaker

1 Amanda Miller 2 James Eiden 3 Kiley Snobeck 4 Ella Erdahl 5 Shweta Shankar 6 Makenzie Stockwell

Judge A: Ben Habegger

Judges: Jennifer Burnside Alex Carlson Mikayla Curry Jessica Fedje Matthew Kolstad

Judge B: Audrey French

Judge C: Pam Tvedt

Judge D: April Clark

Class AA Tournament

STORYTELLING

Don’t share it, wear it.

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DON’T SHARE IT, WEAR IT.

Even though things are opening up, we can’t let down our guard. Continue to wear a mask in public to help slow

the spread of COVID-19.

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Class A Tournament

Round One – 9:30 a.m. Judge A: Mikayla Curry Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Gavia Yount International Falls Non-Existant 2 Aidan Kolehmainen Maple Lake Ways of the Teacher’s Kid 3 Logan Clarke Murray County Central, Slayton Guy Fieri Lets it Go 4 Katelyn DeLost Walker-Hackensack-Akeley Purgatory 5 Meagan Pedersen Cannon Falls High-Functioning Flirting 6 Duram Kelly Mankato Loyola An Informative Soap Opera

Judge B: Audrey French Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Devin Everding Glencoe-Silver Lake Click 2 Mariah Peterson *Red Lake County Central Teachers Take on TikTok 3 Luci Bransel Morris Area Heartbroken 4 Lydia Kowarsch Cherry, Iron Meet My Insanity 5 Aiden Eckel Browerville Mama’s Boy 6 Seth Scarfpin Martin County West, Sherburn Captain’s Log

Judge C: Jenn Baese Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Elizabeth Schieffelbein Chatfield Happily Ever After and Other Fairy Tale Falsehoods 2 Lauren Wheeler Fairmont Fish Bowl Livin’ 3 Isaac Hallberg Battle Lake Menento Mori-Remember Death 4 Parker Alvstad Windom Area Scribbling Solutions 5 Damian Christian Paynesville Area The Hardings 6 Evjen Walters St. Croix Lutheran Academy, Boast Hunter West St. Paul

Judge D: Jim Fedje Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 John Ronning New York Mills Missed Call 2 Marissa Johnson Tracy-Milroy-Balaton Secret Sugar Society 3 Jaren Sandbeck East Grand Forks I Love You Grams 4 Quinn FierkeLepp South Ridge, Culver Captive 5 Kaylee Arndt Fillmore Central, Harmony The Tale too Terrible for a Title 6 Drew Pundsack Melrose Area Influencers Anonymous

CREATIVE EXPRESSION

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Round Two – 11:00 a.m.

Round Three – 12:30 p.m.

Championship Round – 2:30 p.m.

Class A Tournament

CREATIVE EXPRESSION

Order Speaker

1 Parker Alvstad 2 Kaylee Arndt 3 John Ronning 4 Damian Christian 5 Lydia Kowarsch 6 Aidan Kolehmainen

Order Speaker

1 Quinn FierkeLepp 2 Meagan Pedersen 3 Marissa Johnson 4 Aiden Eckel 5 Katelyn DeLost 6 Lauren Wheeler

Order Speaker

1 Mariah Peterson 2 Duram Kelly 3 Gavia Yount 4 Drew Pundsack 5 Elizabeth Schieffelbein 6 Devin Everding

Order Speaker

1 Seth Scarfpin 2 Luci Bransel 3 Evjen Walters 4 Logan Clarke 5 Jaren Sandbeck 6 Isaac Hallberg

Judge A: Ben Habegger

Judge B: Dale Neuschwander

Judge C: Scott Sieling

Judge D: Doug Smith

Order Speaker

1 Drew Pundsack 2 Katelyn DeLost 3 Elizabeth Schieffelbein 4 Seth Scarfpin 5 John Ronning 6 Parker Alvstad

Order Speaker

1 Evjen Walters 2 Aiden Eckel 3 Kaylee Arndt 4 Lauren Wheeler 5 Luci Bransel 6 Gavia Yount

Order Speaker

1 Isaac Hallberg 2 Lydia Kowarsch 3 Duram Kelly 4 Aidan Kolehmainen 5 Mariah Peterson 6 Marissa Johnson

Order Speaker

1 Jaren Sandbeck 2 Damian Christian 3 Meagan Pedersen 4 Devin Everding 5 Logan Clarke 6 Quinn FierkeLepp

Judge A: Jan Urtel

Judges: April Clark Jack Gritzmacher Anjanette Kraus Cris Medina Linda Neugebauer

Judge B: Kathleen Keech

Judge C: Amy Buccek

Judge D: Heather Lyke

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Class A Tournament

Round One – 9:30 a.m. Judge A: Mike Worcester Order Speaker School/Team

1 Abbigail Kutz Maple River, Mapleton 2 Hannah Samuelson Parkers Prairie 3 Abbie Sundich *Rock Ridge 4 Aarav Devkota Morris Area 5 Caleb Otte Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton 6 Kensi Binstadt Mounds Park Academy, St. Paul

Judge B: John Fogarty Order Speaker School/Team

1 Mollie Pierson Pequot Lakes 2 McCartney Knutson New London-Spicer 3 Evan Buckingham Montevideo 4 Solveig Senf Fairmont 5 Jase Vafaei Cotter, Winona 6 Sana Punjani Mounds Park Academy, St. Paul

Judge C: Jacob Clauson Order Speaker School/Team

1 Shane Todd Hawley 2 Jasmine Faue Rockford 3 Teagan Strecker Cannon Falls 4 Jessalyn Schroetter Cherry, Iron 5 Julia Nilles Russell-Tyler-Ruthton 6 Hannah Radzwill Underwood

Judge D: Chris McDonald Order Speaker School/Team

1 Richard Sylak Zumbrota-Mazeppa 2 Eli Boe *Rock Ridge 3 Alexis Lhotka Morris Area 4 Sadie Blace Mankato Loyola 5 Madi Lee East Grand Forks 6 Gabe Thier Adrian

DISCUSSION

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Round Two – 11:00 a.m.

Order Speaker

1 Jessalyn Schroetter 2 Madi Lee 3 Richard Sylak 4 Julia Nilles 5 Solveig Senf 6 Hannah Samuelson

Order Speaker

1 Sadie Blace 2 Caleb Otte 3 Eli Boe 4 Jase Vafaei 5 Aarav Devkota 6 Jasmine Faue

Order Speaker

1 McCartney Knutson 2 Kensi Binstadt 3 Abbigail Kutz 4 Gabe Thier 5 Shane Todd 6 Mollie Pierson

Order Speaker

1 Sana Punjani 2 Evan Buckingham 3 Hannah Radzwill 4 Abbie Sundich 5 Alexis Lhotka 6 Teagan Strecker

Judge A: Kristin Tupa

Judge B: Katie Scholz

Judge C: Cynthia Pope

Judge D: Angie Klein

Round Three – 12:30 p.m.

Championship Round – 2:30 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Gabe Thier 2 Aarav Devkota 3 Shane Todd 4 Sana Punjani 5 Richard Sylak 6 Jessalyn Schroetter

Order Speaker

1 Hannah Radzwill 2 Jase Vafaei 3 Madi Lee 4 Jasmine Faue 5 Evan Buckingham 6 Abbigail Kutz

Order Speaker

1 Teagan Strecker 2 Solveig Senf 3 Kensi Binstadt 4 Hannah Samuelson 5 McCartney Knutson 6 Eli Boe

Order Speaker

1 Alexis Lhotka 2 Julia Nilles 3 Caleb Otte 4 Mollie Pierson 5 Abbie Sundich 6 Sadie Blace

Judge A: Kathy Martin

Judges: Ross Eichele Matthew Kolstad Thomas Lucas Heather Lyke Rachel Schott

Judge B: Thor Mattick

Judge C: Scott Sieling

Judge D: Mark Thul

Class A Tournament

DISCUSSION

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Class A Tournament

Round One – 9:30 a.m. Judge A: Bret Hemmerlin Order Speakers School/Team Selection

1 Rylan Poppenhagen/Layne Kaufenberg Northeast Range, Babbitt First Person Shooter by Don Zolidis 2 Dawson Blankenship/Brailynn Breberg Murray County Central, Slayton Little Suzy Sues God For All He’s Worth by Brandon

Daley 3 Faith Mader/Jillian Kulm Annandale Inside Out by original story by Pete Docter and

Ronnie Del Carmen, Screenplay by Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley

4 Keegan Bestland/Keegan Harvey Staples Motley Puffs: Or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic by Matt Cox

5 Nick Pleiss/Andy Muske Minnesota Valley Lutheran, I’m Just Digging a Hole in the Woods at 2 A.M. No New Ulm Reason. Why do you Ask? by Bradley Walton 6 Haylee Gunderson/Sebastian Rappe Randolph That’s Not How I Remember It by Don Zolidis

Judge B: Jerrod Nelson Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Jenna Lingen/Sophie Blagdon Russell-Tyler-Ruthton We Are The Ashes/Once Upon A Time by Linda Oatman High

2 Emily Kirchenwitz/Sadie Shippee Perham Cheer Up Candace by Swampy Marsh and Dan Povermire

3 Garrett Hollihan/ Mounds Park Academy, St. Paul Peter/Wendy by Jeremy Bloom Lilly Gasterland-Gustafsson 4 Daisy Borden/Dani Logan *Rock Ridge Dani Girl by Chris Diamond and Michael Kooman 5 Leah Tibbets/Dani LaVine Gunning Hawley Hunting Goodwill by Kelly Meadows 6 Peyton Ellis/Sydney Ellis Chatfield Sealed for Freshness by Doug Stone

Judge C: Ben Habegger Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Kiri Kerekes/Paige Atherton Waterville-Elysian-Morristown Flowers by Katherine Vaughan 2 Cecelia Galke/Jonah Heckman Cotter, Winona Friends for Life by Gregory T Burns 3 Sophia Rezac/Samantha Rezac Crookston Mother’s Day by Edith Tarbescu 4 Lexi Orbeck/Makullen Kleist Eden Valley-Watkins Action News: Now With 10% More Action! by

Johnathan Rand 5 Anthony Carlson/Lillian Thomas PACT Charter School, Ramsey Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North 6 Zoey Wiliams/Brooke Struthers Russell-Tyler-Ruthton The Object Formerly Known As Potato by Bradley

Walton

Judge D: Lucas VanLeeuwe Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Lelia Johnson/Kate Kennedy Roseau The Best Escape by Carolyn West 2 Emily Hamm/Hailey Lesmeister Morris Area Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling 3 Connor Judd/Cy Johnson Staples Motley Something Rotten by John D’Farrell and Karey

Kirkpatrick and Wayne Kirkpatrick 4 Kaelyn Talley/Kourtney Talley International Falls Assault Toast by Bradley Walton 5 Tabitha Thatcher/Isabell Geiger Fairmont The Night Witches by Rachel Bublitz 6 Alexandriana Davis/Liam Davis St. Croix Preparatory Academy, Jack Thornton: The Boy Who Breathed Fire by Jane Stillwater Nicolaas

DUO INTERPRETATION

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Round Two – 11:00 a.m.

Order Speaker

1 Orbeck/Kleist 2 Thatcher/Geiger 3 Johnson/Kennedy 4 Carlson/Thomas 5 Borden/Logan 6 Blankenship/Breberg

Order Speaker

1 Talley/Talley 2 Pleiss/Muske 3 Hamm/Lesmeister 4 Tibbets/LaVine Gunning 5 Bestland/Harvey 6 Galke/Heckman

Order Speaker

1 Kirchenwitz/Shippee 2 Gunderson/Rappe 3 Poppenhagen/

Kaufenberg 4 Davis/Davis 5 Kerekes/Atherton 6 Lingen/Blagdon

Order Speaker

1 Ellis/Ellis 2 Hollihan/Gasterland-

Gustafsson 3 Wiliams/Struthers 4 Mader/Kulm 5 Judd/Johnson 6 Rezac/Rezac

Judge A: Anjanette Kraus

Judge B: Jodene Wartman

Judge C: Suzanne White

Judge D: Jenn Baese

Round Three – 12:30 p.m.

Championship Round – 2:30 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Davis/Davis 2 Bestland/Harvey 3 Kerekes/Atherton 4 Ellis/Ellis 5 Johnson/Kennedy 6 Orbeck/Kleist

Order Speaker

1 Wiliams/Struthers 2 Tibbets/LaVine Gunning 3 Thatcher/Geiger 4 Galke/Heckman 5 Hollihan/Gasterland-

Gustafsson 6 Poppenhagen/

Kaufenberg

Order Speaker

1 Rezac/Rezac 2 Borden/Logan 3 Gunderson/Rappe 4 Blankenship/Breberg 5 Kirchenwitz/Shippee 6 Hamm/Lesmeister

Order Speaker

1 Judd/Johnson 2 Carlson/Thomas 3 Pleiss/Muske 4 Lingen/Blagdon 5 Mader/Kulm 6 Talley/Talley

Judge A: Mikayla Curry

Judges: Joni Anker Andrew Boman Kathleen Keech Jill Lofald Tim Newcomb

Judge B: Terri Leonard

Judge C: Cathy Anderson

Judge D: Audrey French

Class A Tournament

DUO INTERPRETATION

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Class A Tournament

Round One – 9:45 a.m.

EXTEMPORANEOUS READING

*Denotes cooperatively sponsored program.

Judge A: Pam Tvedt Order Speaker School/Team

1 Will Rops Pipestone Area 2 Paris FierkeLepp South Ridge, Culver 3 Fallon Mastin Milaca 4 Emma Niebuhr Minnesota Valley Lutheran, New Ulm 5 Grace Miller Cannon Falls 6 Isabelle Godding Henning

Judge B: Anjanette Kraus Order Speaker School/Team

1 Kirsten Rothenberger *Rock Ridge 2 Noah Lippert Maple River, Mapleton 3 Jocelyn Laux Hawley 4 Kaylynn Sanderville *River Valley 5 Avery DeWitt St. Croix Preparatory Academy, Stillwater 6 Emily Hagel Parkers Prairie

Judge C: Ceil McDonald Order Speaker School/Team

1 Meghan Kosmala Stewartville 2 Brenna Behrens Park Rapids Area 3 Charlotte Bergh Mounds Park Academy, St. Paul 4 Brandon Stalboerger Melrose Area 5 Pernilla Petersen Hawley 6 Daniella Majwega Marshall School, Duluth

Judge D: Sandy Nieland Order Speaker School/Team

1 Em Haas Rockford 2 Naomi Ferguson Royalton 3 Molly Koester Mankato Loyola 4 Brooklyn Goelz Pipestone Area 5 Aizlynn Thim Cannon Falls 6 Annika Landsverk Fosston

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Round Two – 11:15 a.m.

Class A Tournament

EXTEMPORANEOUS READING

Order Speaker

1 Brandon Stalboerger 2 Aizlynn Thim 3 Em Haas 4 Pernilla Petersen 5 Kaylynn Sanderville 6 Paris FierkeLepp

Order Speaker

1 Brooklyn Goelz 2 Grace Miller 3 Naomi Ferguson 4 Avery DeWitt 5 Emma Niebuhr 6 Brenna Behrens

Order Speaker

1 Noah Lippert 2 Isabelle Godding 3 Will Rops 4 Annika Landsverk 5 Meghan Kosmala 6 Kirsten Rothenberger

Order Speaker

1 Emily Hagel 2 Jocelyn Laux 3 Daniella Majwega 4 Fallon Mastin 5 Molly Koester 6 Charlotte Bergh

Judge A: Jerrod Nelson

Judge B: Thor Mattick

Judge C: Ross Eichele

Judge D: Mike Worcester

Round Three – 12:45 p.m.

Championship Round – 2:45 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Annika Landsverk 2 Emma Niebuhr 3 Meghan Kosmala 4 Emily Hagel 5 Em Haas 6 Brandon Stalboerger

Order Speaker

1 Daniella Majwega 2 Avery DeWitt 3 Aizlynn Thim 4 Brenna Behrens 5 Jocelyn Laux 6 Will Rops

Order Speaker

1 Charlotte Bergh 2 Kaylynn Sanderville 3 Isabelle Godding 4 Paris FierkeLepp 5 Noah Lippert 6 Naomi Ferguson

Order Speaker

1 Molly Koester 2 Pernilla Petersen 3 Grace Miller 4 Kirsten Rothenberger 5 Fallon Mastin 6 Brooklyn Goelz

Judge A: Laura Hammond

Judges: Robert French Donna Hickerson Kathy Martin Scott Sieling Carol Sylvester

Judge B: Priya Prashad

Judge C: Patricia Neuschwander

Judge D: Kara Ronning

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Class A Tournament

Round One – 9:45 a.m. Judge A: Angie Klein Order Speaker School/Team

1 Weston Loughmiller Fairmont 2 Parker Carbonneau Luverne 3 Maddie Lemmer Cotter, Winona 4 Brayden Johnson Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton 5 Rohit Iyer Mounds Park Academy, St. Paul 6 Luke Moeller Marshall School, Duluth

Judge B: Amy French Order Speaker School/Team

1 Chance Tunnissen Luverne 2 Nate Krause Park Christian, Moorhead 3 Caryn Marty *CACGB (Chokio-Alberta/Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley) 4 Irie Hansen St. Clair 5 Jacob Suchy Parkers Prairie 6 Azalea Ray *Rock Ridge

Judge C: Laura Hammond Order Speaker School/Team

1 Grace Fritz Maple Lake 2 Laura Holmstrom Ely 3 Megan Buffington Pequot Lakes 4 Lydia Pedersen Cannon Falls 5 Maxwell Lurken-Tvrdik Melrose Area 6 Zander Carbonneau Luverne

Judge D: Kathy Martin Order Speaker School/Team

1 Tabitha Kibwaa Pine River-Backus 2 Hailey Biesanz Cotter, Winona 3 Eddie Williams Cass Lake-Bena 4 Zach Groh Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton 5 Salmah Elmasry Mounds Park Academy, St. Paul 6 Ben Bugbee Paynesville Area

EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING

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Round Two – 11:15 a.m.

Order Speaker

1 Lydia Pedersen 2 Salmah Elmasry 3 Tabitha Kibwaa 4 Maxwell Lurken-Tvrdik 5 Irie Hansen 6 Parker Carbonneau

Order Speaker

1 Zach Groh 2 Rohit Iyer 3 Hailey Biesanz 4 Jacob Suchy 5 Brayden Johnson 6 Laura Holmstrom

Order Speaker

1 Nate Krause 2 Luke Moeller 3 Weston Loughmiller 4 Ben Bugbee 5 Grace Fritz 6 Chance Tunnissen

Order Speaker

1 Azalea Ray 2 Caryn Marty 3 Zander Carbonneau 4 Maddie Lemmer 5 Eddie Williams 6 Megan Buffington

Judge A: Charles Cravens

Judge B: Dan Olson

Judge C: Chris McDonald

Judge D: Mark Thul

Round Three – 12:45 p.m.

Championship Round – 2:45 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Ben Bugbee 2 Brayden Johnson 3 Grace Fritz 4 Azalea Ray 5 Tabitha Kibwaa 6 Lydia Pedersen

Order Speaker

1 Zander Carbonneau 2 Jacob Suchy 3 Salmah Elmasry 4 Laura Holmstrom 5 Caryn Marty 6 Weston Loughmiller

Order Speaker

1 Megan Buffington 2 Irie Hansen 3 Luke Moeller 4 Parker Carbonneau 5 Nate Krause 6 Hailey Biesanz

Order Speaker

1 Eddie Williams 2 Maxwell Lurken-Tvrdik 3 Rohit Iyer 4 Chance Tunnissen 5 Maddie Lemmer 6 Zach Groh

Judge A: Cheryl Neidt

Judges: Tom Backen Jacob Clauson Ceil McDonald Katie Scholz Suzanne White

Judge B: Kristin Tupa

Judge C: Ross Eichele

Judge D: Mike Wartman

Class A Tournament

EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING

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Class A Tournament

Round One – 9:30 a.m. Judge A: Lori Shoberg Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Camden Edmonson Annandale Perils of Indifference by Elie Wiesel 2 Anna McClelland Maple Lake 1976 Keynote Address to the Democratic National

Convention by Barbara Jordan 3 Maggie Anderson Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton On True Patriotism by Adlai Stevenson II 4 Kaylee Campbell Tracy-Milroy-Balaton My name is Wil Wheaton. I Live With Chronic Depression

and Generalized Anxiety. I Am Not Ashamed. by Wil Wheaton

5 Kaitlyn Seibel Parkers Prairie What is an American by Harold Ickes 6 Alex Heuss Waterville-Elysian-Morristown A Time to Break Silence by Martin Luther King Jr.

Judge B: Kristin Tupa Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Isak Dai Mounds Park Academy, St. Paul Jacinda Ardern’s Christchurch Memorial Address by Jacinda Ardern

2 Jori Strasser Pipestone Area Speech That Made Possible A Jewish State by Golda Meir 3 Angel Zheng Cannon Falls Dear Class of 2020 Speech by Michelle Obama 4 Ava Blonigen Eden Valley-Watkins Address to the Chicago Civil Liberties Committee by

Eleanor Roosevelt 5 Logan Meskill Northeast Range, Babbitt John F. Kennedy’s Civil Rights Address by John F. Kennedy 6 Eleanor Hamlet Fairmont Responding to Landmines: A Modern Tragedy and Its

Consequences by Diana Princess of Wales

Judge C: Patricia Neuschwander Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Brynn Greisen Perham Tracee Eliss Ross is Living for Herself by Tracee Eliss Ross 2 Ameya Komaragiri Fairmont The 2018 Commencement Address at the Columbia

University School of Journalism by Ira Glass 3 Amara Carey *Rock Ridge AOC’s House Floor Speech (in response to Rep Yoho) by

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 4 Haley Patel Blackduck The Cleveland Club Speech by Robert F. Kennedy 5 Aubrey Williams Cotter, Winona Lyndon B. Johnson’s Speech to the Nation on Civil

Disorders and Barack Obama’s Speech on George Floyd Death and Protests by Lyndon B. Johnson and Barack Obama

6 IsaBella Fritz Watertown-Mayer It’s The Great Society by Lyndon B. Johnson

Judge D: Beth Steinleitner Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Charlene Kowarsch Cherry, Iron Phenomenal Women by Maya Angelou 2 Ian Kronbeck Hawley Coverage of Dissent by Daniel Boorstin 3 Caleb Harper Russell-Tyler-Ruthton Resignation Speeches by Richard M. Nixon 4 Brooklen Middendorf Melrose Area We Are the Wolves by Abby Wambach 5 Alex Brings Staples Motley Al Gore’s Address at the Columbine Memorial by Al Gore 6 Connor Loeschke Cannon Falls Lyceum Address by Abraham Lincoln

GREAT SPEECHES

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Round Two – 11:00 a.m.

Order Speaker

1 Haley Patel 2 Alex Brings 3 Charlene Kowarsch 4 Aubrey Williams 5 Ava Blonigen 6 Anna McClelland

Order Speaker

1 Brooklen Middendorf 2 Kaitlyn Seibel 3 Ian Kronbeck 4 Logan Meskill 5 Kaylee Campbell 6 Ameya Komaragiri

Order Speaker

1 Jori Strasser 2 Alex Heuss 3 Camden Edmonson 4 Connor Loeschke 5 Brynn Greisen 6 Isak Dai

Order Speaker

1 Eleanor Hamlet 2 Angel Zheng 3 IsaBella Fritz 4 Maggie Anderson 5 Caleb Harper 6 Amara Carey

Judge A: Kathy Martin

Judge B: Jason Olson

Judge C: Tom Backen

Judge D: Amy Buccek

Round Three – 12:30 p.m.

Championship Round – 2:30 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Connor Loeschke 2 Kaylee Campbell 3 Brynn Greisen 4 Eleanor Hamlet 5 Charlene Kowarsch 6 Haley Patel

Order Speaker

1 IsaBella Fritz 2 Logan Meskill 3 Alex Brings 4 Ameya Komaragiri 5 Angel Zheng 6 Camden Edmonson

Order Speaker

1 Amara Carey 2 Ava Blonigen 3 Alex Heuss 4 Anna McClelland 5 Jori Strasser 6 Ian Kronbeck

Order Speaker

1 Caleb Harper 2 Aubrey Williams 3 Kaitlyn Seibel 4 Isak Dai 5 Maggie Anderson 6 Brooklen Middendorf

Judge A: Chris McDonald

Judges: Jenn Baese Charles Cravens Audrey French Mike Wartman Mike Worcester

Judge B: Robert French

Judge C: John Fogarty

Judge D: Jerrod Nelson

Class A Tournament

GREAT SPEECHES

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Class A Tournament

Round One – 9:30 a.m. Judge A: Andrew Boman Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Russell Beers *River Valley Brussels Sprouts by Andy Griffiths 2 Sara Kampsen Sauk Centre Villains Incorporated by Mary J. Long 3 Eric Daschner Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton The Secret Knowledge of Grown Ups by David Wisniewski 4 Emma Watson Cannon Falls Lil Greasy Tator Queen by Clint Snyder 5 Gina Quamme Breckenridge People Watching by John Havens 6 Jake Bradach *Rock Ridge The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber

Judge B: Dale Neuschwander Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Jaron Gross Pierz SpaceBalls by Mel Brooks, Thomas Meehan, & Ronny Graham

2 Kressin Hartl Cannon Falls Miss Beth by Don Zolidis 3 Lily Pedersen Walker-Hackensack-Akeley Bridesmaids by Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig 4 Aaron Rojas Adrian Bad Ideas for Bad Television Shows by Don Zolidis 5 Hana Miller Mounds Park Academy, St. Paul Kill The Boy Band by Goldy Moldalvsky 6 Mason Jokimaki McGregor Pee Pipe by Sandra Dempsey

Judge C: Cris Medina Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Arden Eckel Browerville Playwriting 101: The Rooftop Lesson by Rich Orloff 2 Cordell Vogel Ogilvie Resusci-Annie by Paul Feig 3 Ryan Ghose Mounds Park Academy, St. Paul Hocus Pocus by A.W. Jantha 4 Savannah Berg Minnesota New Country School, Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh Henderson 5 Neve Moore East Grand Forks The Lorax by Dr. Seuss, arranged by Cinco Paul and

Ken Daurio 6 Elsey Hagen Minnewaska Area, Glenwood A Zero’s Journey by Matt Mills

Judge D: Stewart Wilson Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Rayna Bowen Rockford Ruthless! by Joel Paley 2 Collin Kirschner Mankato Loyola So You Want to Date a Superhero by Kevin Burgun 3 Rebecca Copeman Chatfield Nora Wants a Baby by Forrest Musselman 4 Luke Thorson Luverne Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories by Jean

Shepherd 5 Caden Mrazek Staples Motley The Hamilton Sasquatch by Jeffrey Longvall and Kagen

Hatch 6 Zara Baig Crookston The Waltz by Dorothy Parker

HUMOROUS INTERPRETATION

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Round Two – 11:00 a.m.

Order Speaker

1 Savannah Berg 2 Caden Mrazek 3 Rayna Bowen 4 Neve Moore 5 Aaron Rojas 6 Sara Kampsen

Order Speaker

1 Luke Thorson 2 Gina Quamme 3 Collin Kirschner 4 Hana Miller 5 Emma Watson 6 Cordell Vogel

Order Speaker

1 Kressin Hartl 2 Jake Bradach 3 Russell Beers 4 Zara Baig 5 Arden Eckel 6 Jaron Gross

Order Speaker

1 Mason Jokimaki 2 Lily Pedersen 3 Elsey Hagen 4 Eric Daschner 5 Rebecca Copeman 6 Ryan Ghose

Judge A: Cathy Anderson

Judge B: Kathleen Keech

Judge C: Tim Newcomb

Judge D: Jim Fedje

Round Three – 12:30 p.m.

Championship Round – 2:30 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Zara Baig 2 Emma Watson 3 Arden Eckel 4 Mason Jokimaki 5 Rayna Bowen 6 Savannah Berg

Order Speaker

1 Elsey Hagen 2 Hana Miller 3 Caden Mrazek 4 Cordell Vogel 5 Lily Pedersen 6 Russell Beers

Order Speaker

1 Ryan Ghose 2 Aaron Rojas 3 Jake Bradach 4 Sara Kampsen 5 Kressin Hartl 6 Collin Kirschner

Order Speaker

1 Rebecca Copeman 2 Neve Moore 3 Gina Quamme 4 Jaron Gross 5 Eric Daschner 6 Luke Thorson

Judge A: Linda Neugebauer

Judges: Mikayla Curry Laura Hammond Jason Olson Luke Ostrander Mark Thul

Judge B: April Clark

Judge C: Beth Steinleitner

Judge D: Jennifer Kulm

Class A Tournament

HUMOROUS INTERPRETATION

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Class A Tournament

Round One – 9:30 a.m. Judge A: Kara Ronning Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Brooke Baumann Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted Attorney Murder Mysteries: An Exploration of Criminal Profiling

2 Icelynn Haines Ogilvie Open World Video Games 3 Lilly Laven Fairmont De-escalation: Defusing High Stress Situations 4 Brynn Drevlow Thief River Falls Make Some Noise 5 Isaac Polovick Browerville Virtual Reality Check 6 Dora Larson Windom Area Schizophrenia

Judge B: Suzanne White Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Sydney Kowarsch Cherry, Iron Welcome to the World of Fandom 2 Austin Fellman Thief River Falls Retro Nostalgia 3 Bianca Caputo Cannon Falls Putting the Fun in Funeral 4 Malorie Thorson Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted It Ain’t Easy Being Wheezy 5 Kristine Kalthoff Albany Ugly Beauty 6 Libby Tonn *River Valley True Crime

Judge C: Cheryl Neidt Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Anya Roe Perham Mindful Emotion 2 Annaka Hook Tracy-Milroy-Balaton Birth Order 3 Billy Tensen Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Let’s Ramble Why We Unscramble 4 Sydney Blomster Fairmont Sign on the Dotted Line 5 Grace Miller Cotter, Winona Too Tired to Decide 6 Morgan Kreswell McGregor Hidden Figures

Judge D: Rachel Schott Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Ava Weinreis St. Cloud Cathedral Human Body Decomposition 2 Abby Moses Mankato Loyola Exploring Anxiety 3 Elizabeth Marzahl Hawley Dear Diary 4 Brynn Illies Watertown-Mayer Handwriting 5 Torii Nienow Staples Motley CRISPR: Rewriting the Future of Genetics 6 Matthew Giese Cannon Falls Environmental Ice Cream

INFORMATIVE SPEAKING

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Round Two – 11:00 a.m.

Order Speaker

1 Sydney Blomster 2 Torii Nienow 3 Ava Weinreis 4 Grace Miller 5 Malorie Thorson 6 Icelynn Haines

Order Speaker

1 Brynn Illies 2 Isaac Polovick 3 Abby Moses 4 Kristine Kalthoff 5 Brynn Drevlow 6 Annaka Hook

Order Speaker

1 Austin Fellman 2 Dora Larson 3 Brooke Baumann 4 Matthew Giese 5 Anya Roe 6 Sydney Kowarsch

Order Speaker

1 Libby Tonn 2 Bianca Caputo 3 Morgan Kreswell 4 Lilly Laven 5 Elizabeth Marzahl 6 Billy Tensen

Judge A: Jason Clauson

Judge B: Robert French

Judge C: Carol Sylvester

Judge D: Joni Anker

Round Three – 12:30 p.m.

Championship Round – 2:30 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Matthew Giese 2 Brynn Drevlow 3 Anya Roe 4 Libby Tonn 5 Ava Weinreis 6 Sydney Blomster

Order Speaker

1 Morgan Kreswell 2 Kristine Kalthoff 3 Torii Nienow 4 Annaka Hook 5 Bianca Caputo 6 Brooke Baumann

Order Speaker

1 Billy Tensen 2 Malorie Thorson 3 Dora Larson 4 Icelynn Haines 5 Austin Fellman 6 Abby Moses

Order Speaker

1 Elizabeth Marzahl 2 Grace Miller 3 Isaac Polovick 4 Sydney Kowarsch 5 Lilly Laven 6 Brynn Illies

Judge A: Jack Gritzmacher

Judges: Jennifer Kulm Jerrod Nelson Dan Olson Margaret Shelby Lori Shoberg

Judge B: Thomas Lucas

Judge C: Jason Olson

Judge D: Tom Backen

Class A Tournament

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Round One – 9:30 a.m. Judge A: Mike Wartman Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Anna Oehlerking Marshall School, Duluth Motivated Reasoning 2 Aspen Thiel Perham Reading Creates Empathy 3 Eve Grabau Fillmore Central, Harmony Mental Health Stigmas 4 Addi Oliver Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton That Uncomfortable Feeling 5 Katie Walerius Minneota Cancel Diet Culture 6 Sophie Hunter Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton A Dearth of Sustenance

Judge B: Thomas Lucas Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Madeline Eckel Browerville Take Care, Pooh Bear 2 Savannah Ruiz Maple River, Mapleton Hegemonic Masculinity 3 Nathan Dressel Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted The Troubling Spread of Disinformation 4 Jasmyn Martin-Lenzen Chisholm Tuition Prices: A Growing Problem 5 Lakia Manska Morris Area Bounce Back 6 Maia Bowman East Grand Forks Sorry Mom

Judge C: Tom Backen Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Allison Letcher Windom Area Speaking Out is In 2 Anna Kronbeck Hawley The Tangled Web of Dying in America 3 Delaney Ignace Paynesville Area Adverse Childhood Experiences 4 Kyra Arndt Fillmore Central, Harmony Procrastination 5 Emma Cohen Mounds Park Academy, St. Paul A Second Chance? 6 Angelina Nicholas Perham Change Through Activism

Judge D: Charles Cravens Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Lydia Prout Melrose Area Climate Change: Another Ultron 2 Sophia Culuris Kenyon-Wanamingo Brick Walls 3 Sami Pollack Minnesota New Country School, The Poison Embedded in Everyday Phrases Henderson 4 Zachary Quirk Chisholm Why We Should Have Controversial Talks 5 Makenna McNamara Windom Area Be a “Healthy” Competitor 6 Laura Hunt St. Croix Lutheran Academy The Keys of Chopin’s Piano

ORIGINAL ORATORY

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Round Two – 11:00 a.m.

Order Speaker

1 Kyra Arndt 2 Makenna McNamara 3 Lydia Prout 4 Emma Cohen 5 Jasmyn Martin-Lenzen 6 Aspen Thiel

Order Speaker

1 Zachary Quirk 2 Katie Walerius 3 Sophia Culuris 4 Lakia Manska 5 Addi Oliver 6 Anna Kronbeck

Order Speaker

1 Savannah Ruiz 2 Sophie Hunter 3 Anna Oehlerking 4 Laura Hunt 5 Allison Letcher 6 Madeline Eckel

Order Speaker

1 Maia Bowman 2 Nathan Dressel 3 Angelina Nicholas 4 Eve Grabau 5 Sami Pollack 6 Delaney Ignace

Judge A: Jan Urtel

Judge B: Jull Lofald

Judge C: Cheryl Neidt

Judge D: Rachel Schott

Round Three – 12:30 p.m.

Championship Round – 2:30 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Laura Hunt 2 Addi Oliver 3 Allison Letcher 4 Maia Bowman 5 Lydia Prout 6 Kyra Arndt

Order Speaker

1 Angelina Nicholas 2 Lakia Manska 3 Makenna McNamara 4 Anna Kronbeck 5 Nathan Dressel 6 Anna Oehlerking

Order Speaker

1 Delaney Ignace 2 Jasmyn Martin-Lenzen 3 Sophie Hunter 4 Aspen Thiel 5 Savannah Ruiz 6 Sophia Culuris

Order Speaker

1 Sami Pollack 2 Emma Cohen 3 Katie Walerius 4 Madeline Eckel 5 Eve Grabau 6 Zachary Quirk

Judge A: Jenn Baese

Judges: Amy Buccek John Fogarty Angie Klein Chris McDonald Kara Ronning

Judge B: Joni Anker

Judge C: Jacob Clauson

Judge D: Andrew Boman

Class A Tournament

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Round One – 9:30 a.m. Judge A: Carol Sylvester Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Hannah Graff Cotter, Winona My All-Time Favorites by Frank Smith 2 Rachael Fields Maple River, Mapleton Argos by Elizabeth McCutcheon 3 Anita Foster Thief River Falls The Fault in Our Stars by Scott Neustadter & Michael H.

Weber 4 Christopher Hovden Pelican Rapids A Psychopath by Pete Malicki 5 Maddie Schiller New London-Spicer The Property Known as Garland by Billy Van Zandt 6 Sophie Statsman *Rock Ridge Always, Patsy Cline by Ted Swindley

Judge B: Jill Lofald Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Jocelyn Machtemes LeSueur-Henderson Casualties by Sandra Dempsey 2 Sierra Drum Parkers Prairie Network by Paddy Chayefsky 3 Merrik Giesen Belle Plaine Bright. Apple. Crush. by Steve Yockey 4 Catherine Williamson Pine Island Amanda by DonnaMarie Vaughan 5 Sarah Kottke *River Valley The Property Known as Garland by Billy Van Zandt 6 Hannah Hoche Cherry, Iron girl. (from the section titled: Things You Can’t Tell Just By

Looking at Her) by Megan Mostyn-Brown

Judge C: Margaret Shelby Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Gracie Schad Melrose Area Birthright by Katherine Raul 2 Andrew Haataja Bigfork Bitter Disappointments by Bradley Walton 3 Lexy Nelson Redwood Valley, Redwood Falls The Property Known as Garland by Billy Van Zandt 4 Maggie O'Hara Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton When We Were Young and Unafraid by Sarah Treem 5 Madelyn Tax Watertown-Mayer I Knew A Boy by Alan Haehnel 6 Gracie Boerner Martin County West, Sherburn The Homecoming Queen by J.J. Jonas

Judge D: Priya Prashad Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Elizabeth Wiggins *Westbrook-Walnut Grove/ Denise: An Original Masterpiece by Eddie James Red Rock Central 2 Logan Wales Walker-Hackensack-Akeley Equus by Peter Schaffer 3 Jane Gudmundson New York Mills Tea at Five by Matthew Lombardo 4 Kendall Lawless Cannon Falls Guilt by Krystle Henninger 5 Reece Wright Annandale Love is Never Black or White by Lee Holder 6 Aidan Lindquist St. Croix Preparatory Academy, Living In Color by Andrew Messer and Jake Nyberg Stillwater

SERIOUS INTERPRETATION OF DRAMA

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Round Two – 11:00 a.m.

Order Speaker

1 Maggie O’Hara 2 Reece Wright 3 Elizabeth Wiggins 4 Madelyn Tax 5 Catherine Williamson 6 Rachael Fields

Order Speaker

1 Kendall Lawless 2 Maddie Schiller 3 Logan Wales 4 Sarah Kottke 5 Christopher Hovden 6 Andrew Haataja

Order Speaker

1 Sierra Drum 2 Sophie Statsman 3 Hannah Graff 4 Aidan Lindquist 5 Gracie Schad 6 Jocelyn Machtemes

Order Speaker

1 Hannah Hoche 2 Merrik Giesen 3 Gracie Boerner 4 Anita Foster 5 Jane Gudmundson 6 Lexy Nelson

Judge A: Sandy Nieland

Judge B: Andrew Boman

Judge C: Bret Hemmerlin

Judge D: April Clark

Round Three – 12:30 p.m.

Championship Round – 2:30 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Aidan Lindquist 2 Christopher Hovden 3 Gracie Schad 4 Hannah Hoche 5 Elizabeth Wiggins 6 Maggie O’Hara

Order Speaker

1 Gracie Boerner 2 Sarah Kottke 3 Reece Wright 4 Andrew Haataja 5 Merrik Giesen 6 Hannah Graff

Order Speaker

1 Lexy Nelson 2 Catherine Williamson 3 Sophie Statsman 4 Rachael Fields 5 Sierra Drum 6 Logan Wales

Order Speaker

1 Jane Gudmundson 2 Madelyn Tax 3 Maddie Schiller 4 Jocelyn Machtemes 5 Anita Foster 6 Kendall Lawless

Judge A: Tim Newcomb

Judges: Roxy Janke Terri Leonard Dale Neuschwander Doug Smith Beth Steinleitner

Judge B: Luke Ostrander

Judge C: Cris Medina

Judge D: Lucas VanLeeuwe

Class A Tournament

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Round One – 9:30 a.m. Judge A: Heather Lyke Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Marissa John Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton The Process of Saying Goodbye (The Moment/Eulogy in Advancement of Death) by Addonizio/Berger

2 Nicholas Fryer Chatfield American Ideals by Tato Laviera, Tino Villanueva, Da Boogie Man 3 Dylan Celley *Rock Ridge Walking on Glass by Alma Fullerton 4 Angela Mergen Albany For Everyone by Jason Reynolds 5 Makayla Hillukka *United North Central A Letter to My Younger Self by Andrea Gibson, Courtney

Peppernill, Mary Oliver, and Rudy Francisco 6 Rachelle Boelter LeSueur-Henderson Kait Rokowski, Akeemjamal Rollins, Meggie Royer by Kait

Rokowski, Akeemjamal Rollins, Meggie Royer

Judge B: Cathy Anderson Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Conor Salmonson Cannon Falls Heterophobia: A Poetry Program by Ragan Fox, Jess Howard, Blythe Baird, June Jordan

2 Andrew Traeger Melrose Area Tomorrow Brighter by Rainer Maria Rilke, Shane Koyczan, The Faithful Dreamer, Neil Hilborn, Nikita Gill

3 Scout Lund Rockford Expressing My Feelings to My Future Husband-Wife (Or, Ritual in Which Gender), One Geography of Belonging, Portrait of My Gender as [Inaudible], If You’re Staying, I’ll Stay Too, Changed by Kayleb R Candrelli, Meg Day, Naomi Shahob Nye

4 Allie Stark Blackduck Church Hurt and Goodbye Religion by Clayton Jennings 5 Delaynie Meyer Tracy-Milroy-Balaton Walking on Glass by Alma Fullerton 6 Presley Sue Borgmenn Minnesota New Country School, My Mother’s Addendum; Mans/laughter; My Grandmother Henderson Asked Why I Don’t Trust Men by Olivia Gatwood

Judge C: Cynthia Pope Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Emma Ravnaas Park Rapids Area In the Marvelous Dimension by Kate Daniels 2 Abreeana Reasor LeSueur-Henderson To This Day by Shane Koyczan 3 Jaden Scholl *Westbrook Walnut Grove/ Girlhood: A Collection of Poems from New American Red Rock Central Bestfriend & Life Of the Party by Olivia Gatwood 4 Rebecca Muster *Rock Ridge It’s Fine, I’m Fie, Everything’s Fine by Rudy Francisco, Jae

Nichelle, Zeina El-Hoss, Melissa Newman-Evans, Rupi Kaur, Patrick Roche

5 Livia Wooldridge Mounds Park Academy, St. Paul The Roots of Violence: A program featuring Paper Dolls, Static, Mrs. Dahmer by Sierra Demulder

6 Melanie Winzenburg Blooming Prairie When the Towers Fell by Galway Kinnell

Judge D: Terri Leonard Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Kendall Kelly *River Valley Poetry Program from I Don't Want to be Crazy by Samantha Schutz

2 Noah Jacobson *Mille Lacs Walking on Glass by Alma Fullerton 3 Kimi Klassen Melrose Area Every Second: A Poetry Program by Gwendolyn Brooks, Meggie

Royer, Shane Koyczan, K.R. Wonder 4 Bralynne Drevlow Thief River Falls Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse 5 Nadia Yliniemi Park Rapids Area Half-Hanged Mary by Margraret Atwood 6 Lucy Schwieger Mounds Park Academy, St. Paul The Body Responds: A program featuring Thighs, Dear Ana, and

When The Fat Girl Gets Skinny by Desiree Dallagiacomo,Sierra Demulder, and Blythe Baird

SERIOUS INTERPRETATION OF POETRY

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Round Two – 11:00 a.m.

Order Speaker

1 Rebecca Muster 2 Nadia Yliniemi 3 Kendall Kelly 4 Livia Wooldridge 5 Allie Stark 6 Nicholas Fryer

Order Speaker

1 Bralynne Drevlow 2 Makayla Hillukka 3 Noah Jacobson 4 Delaynie Meyer 5 Angela Mergen 6 Abreeana Reasor

Order Speaker

1 Andrew Traeger 2 Rachelle Boelter 3 Marissa John 4 Lucy Schwieger 5 Emma Ravnaas 6 Conor Salmonson

Order Speaker

1 Presley Sue Borgmenn 2 Scout Lund 3 Melanie Winzenburg 4 Dylan Celley 5 Kimi Klassen 6 Jaden Scholl

Judge A: Mathew Kolstad

Judge B: Luke Ostrander

Judge C: Jack Gritzmacher

Judge D: Cris Medina

Round Three – 12:30 p.m.

Championship Round – 2:30 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Lucy Schwieger 2 Angela Mergen 3 Emma Ravnaas 4 Presley Sue Borgmenn 5 Kendall Kelly 6 Rebecca Muster

Order Speaker

1 Melanie Winzenburg 2 Delaynie Meyer 3 Nadia Yliniemi 4 Abreeana Reasor 5 Scout Lund 6 Marissa John

Order Speaker

1 Jaden Scholl 2 Allie Stark 3 Rachelle Boelter 4 Nicholas Fryer 5 Andrew Traeger 6 Noah Jacobson

Order Speaker

1 Kimi Klassen 2 Livia Wooldridge 3 Makayla Hillukka 4 Conor Salmonson 5 Dylan Celley 6 Bralynne Drevlow

Judge A: Anjanette Kraus

Judges: Pam Tvedt Jan Urtel Lucas VanLeeuwe Jodene Wartman Stewart Wilson

Judge B: Margaret Shelby

Judge C: Donna Hickerson

Judge D: Roxy Janke

Class A Tournament

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Class A Tournament

Round One – 9:30 a.m. Judge A: Jason Olson Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Yuexi (Lexi) Licheng Cotter, Winona Instant Ramen by Kelly Tran 2 Amara Lampton Northeast Range, Babbitt Finding Laura Buggs by Stanley Gordon West 3 Emily Rieland Melrose Area Amy Chelsea Stacie Dee by Mary G. Thompson 4 Libby Nelson Underwood Explaining Death to the Dog by Susan Perabo 5 Grace Freitag St. Clair Sickened by Julie Gregory 6 Pahwa Yang Mounds Park Academy, St. Paul Dear Zoe by Phillip Beard

Judge B: Doug Smith Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Ellie Norvitch *Rock Ridge Going Grapefruit by Ian Richards 2 Alyvia Bunkowski Henning Faceless by Alyssa Sheinmel 3 Kiera Lafferty *River Valley Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow 4 Jessica Baszuro Cannon Falls Almost Home by Christine Gleason 5 Maia Tjepkes Blackduck A Brown Leather Jacket with a Distinctive Smell by Jennifer

Parker 6 Anna Gaudio Mounds Park Academy, St. Paul Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson

Judge C: Luke Ostrander Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Kaycie Brookens Fairmont Death in Slow Motion: A Memoir of a Daughter, Her Mother, and the Beast Called Alzheimer’s by Eleanor Cooney

2 Julia Hunt St. Croix Lutheran Academy, Forgive and Forget by Bridget Grace Sheaff West St. Paul 3 Lydia Osland Hawley Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson 4 Shelby Gieslinger Eden Valley-Watkins Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson 5 Jenna Spanovich Tracy-Milroy-Balaton Down Came the Rain by Brooke Shields 6 Jaelyn Wright *Rock Ridge Plain Girl Versus the Demon by Amy Pohler

Judge D: Dan Olson Order Speaker School/Team Selection

1 Hannah Ratajczak Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton When Dad Killed Mom by Julius Lester 2 Makayla Zirbes Melrose Area Winter Girls by Laurie Halse Anderson 3 Blake Alonzo Battle Lake A Child Called “It” by Dave Pelzer 4 Olivia Moore Cotter, Winona From Louder than Words - Marni by Marni Bates 5 Alex Menne Minnesota New Country School, Stolen Moments by Janet O’Neill Henderson 6 Josie Golla Luverne Untamed by Glennon Doyle

SERIOUS INTERPRETATION OF PROSE

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Round Two – 11:00 a.m.

Order Speaker

1 Shelby Gieslinger 2 Alex Menne 3 Hannah Ratajczak 4 Jenna Spanovich 5 Jessica Baszuro 6 Amara Lampton

Order Speaker

1 Olivia Moore 2 Grace Freitag 3 Makayla Zirbes 4 Maia Tjepkes 5 Libby Nelson 6 Julia Hunt

Order Speaker

1 Alyvia Bunkowski 2 Pahwa Yang 3 Yuexi (Lexi) Licheng 4 Josie Golla 5 Kaycie Brookens 6 Ellie Norvitch

Order Speaker

1 Anna Gaudio 2 Kiera Lafferty 3 Jaelyn Wright 4 Emily Rieland 5 Blake Alonzo 6 Lydia Osland

Judge A: Terri Leonard

Judge B: Lucas VanLeeuwe

Judge C: Donna Hickerson

Judge D: Roxy Janke

Round Three – 12:30 p.m.

Championship Round – 2:30 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Josie Golla 2 Libby Nelson 3 Kaycie Brookens 4 Anna Gaudio 5 Hannah Ratajczak 6 Shelby Gieslinger

Order Speaker

1 Jaelyn Wright 2 Maia Tjepkes 3 Alex Menne 4 Julia Hunt 5 Kiera Lafferty 6 Yuexi (Lexi) Licheng

Order Speaker

1 Lydia Osland 2 Jessica Baszuro 3 Pahwa Yang 4 Amara Lampton 5 Alyvia Bunkowski 6 Makayla Zirbes

Order Speaker

1 Blake Alonzo 2 Jenna Spanovich 3 Grace Freitag 4 Ellie Norvitch 5 Emily Rieland 6 Olivia Moore

Judge A: Amy French

Judges: Cathy Anderson Jim Fedje Bret Hemmerlin Sandy Nieland Priya Prashad

Judge B: Ceil McDonald

Judge C: Jodene Wartman

Judge D: Lori Shoberg

Class A Tournament

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Class A Tournament

Round One – 9:30 a.m. Judge A: Scott Sieling Order Speaker School/Team

1 Victoria Proulx Crookston 2 Desarae Kohrs Park Rapids Area 3 Ellie Heller Melrose Area 4 Olivia Bailey PACT Charter School, Ramsey 5 Nicholas Long Chatfield 6 Grace Simpson Fairmont

Judge B: April Clark Order Speaker School/Team

1 Tyler Herr Underwood 2 Alyssa Hadler Maple Lake 3 Xavier Carbonneau Luverne 4 Tori Matthews Cass Lake-Bena 5 Bailey Kowarsch Cherry, Iron 6 Annika Wheeler Fairmont

Judge C: Katie Scholz Order Speaker School/Team

1 Aletta Strande Chatfield 2 Bradley Budach Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton 3 Owen Erickson South Ridge, Culver 4 Aubrey Wookey New London-Spicer 5 Brealyn Damm Murray County Central, Slayton 6 Randall Yost Pine River-Backus

Judge D: Jennifer Kulm Order Speaker School/Team

1 Dylan Cardinal Rush City 2 Sydney Hagen Minnewaska Area, Glenwood 3 Emily Lewis Maple Lake 4 Wyatt Lahr Laporte 5 Zenessa Anderson Rushford-Peterson 6 Simon Spittle Fulda

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Round Two – 11:00 a.m.

Order Speaker

1 Aubrey Wookey 2 Zenessa Anderson 3 Dylan Cardinal 4 Brealyn Damm 5 Tori Matthews 6 Desarae Kohrs

Order Speaker

1 Wyatt Lahr 2 Nicholas Long 3 Sydney Hagen 4 Bailey Kowarsch 5 Olivia Bailey 6 Bradley Budach

Order Speaker

1 Alyssa Hadler 2 Grace Simpson 3 Victoria Proulx 4 Simon Spittle 5 Aletta Strande 6 Tyler Herr

Order Speaker

1 Annika Wheeler 2 Xavier Carbonneau 3 Randall Yost 4 Ellie Heller 5 Emily Lewis 6 Owen Erickson

Judge A: Mikayla Curry

Judge B: Audrey French

Judge C: Pam Tvedt

Judge D: Linda Neugebauer

Round Three – 12:30 p.m.

Championship Round – 2:30 p.m.

Order Speaker

1 Simon Spittle 2 Olivia Bailey 3 Aletta Strande 4 Annika Wheeler 5 Dylan Cardinal 6 Aubrey Wookey

Order Speaker

1 Randall Yost 2 Bailey Kowarsch 3 Zenessa Anderson 4 Bradley Budach 5 Xavier Carbonneau 6 Victoria Proulx

Order Speaker

1 Owen Erickson 2 Tori Matthews 3 Grace Simpson 4 Desarae Kohrs 5 Alyssa Hadler 6 Sydney Hagen

Order Speaker

1 Emily Lewis 2 Brealyn Damm 3 Nicholas Long 4 Tyler Herr 5 Ellie Heller 6 Wyatt Lahr

Judge A: Jim Fedje

Judges: Amy French Ben Habegger Thor Mattick Patricia Neuschwander Cynthia Pope

Judge B: Bret Hemmerlin

Judge C: Matthew Kolstad

Judge D: Stewart Wilson

Class A Tournament

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CLASS AA REGIONS Region 1AA

25. Trent Hanson, Activities Director, Hastings 26. Joel Olson, Activities Director, Northfield 27. Brian Ihrke, Activities Director, Rochester John Marshall

Region 2AA 28. Bruce Remme, Activities Director, Marshall 29. Tom Bauman, Activities Director, Buffalo 30. Bucky Mieras, Activities Director, Orono

Region 3AA 31. Mike Manning, Activities Director, Rosemount 32. Guillaume Paek, Activities Director, Burnsville 33. John Bezek, Principal, Prior Lake

Region 4AA 34. Ricky Michel, Activities Director, Stillwater Area 35. Michelle Yenner, School Board Member, St. Paul/Maplewood/Oakdale 36. Greg Ueland, Coach, Roseville Area

Region 5AA 37. Dan Roff, Activities Director, Fridley 38. Lance Wicks, Activities Director, Anoka 39. Chris Fink, Activities Director, Irondale, New Brighton

Region 6AA 40. Jaime Sherwood, Actvities Director, Wayzata 41. Kenny Maxey, Activities Director, Minneapolis Patrick Henry 42. Jen Rademacher, Head Girls Basketball Coach, Robbinsdale Cooper

Region 7AA 43. Mike Cunningham, Activities Director, Elk River 44. Greg Spahn, Boys’ Athletics Representative, Grand Rapids 45. Matt Lattimore, Activities Director, North Branch

Region 8AA 46. Rob Nielsen, Activities Director, Detroit Lakes 47. Charlie Campbell, Activities Director, Brainerd 48. Dave Niemi, Activities Director, Becker

CLASS A REGIONS Region 1A

1. Evan Gough, Superintendent, Goodhue 2. Perry Iberg, Assistant Principal, Lake City 3. Chris Mensink, Activities Director, Fillmore Central, Harmony

Region 2A 4. Jeff Vizenor, Principal, Jordan 5. Brad O’Donnell, Activities Director, St. Clair 6. Paul Carpenter, Activities Director, Madelia

Region 3A 7. Mike Knutson, Principal, Benson 8. Leo Theisen, Activities Director, Westbrook-Walnut Grove 9. TBD

Region 4A 10. Jeff Beimert, Activities Director, North Lakes Academy, Forest Lake 11. Josh Thurow, Activities Director, Minnehaha Academy, Minneapolis 12. Nate Gautsch, Activities Director, Brooklyn Center

Region 5A 13. Vern Capelle, Superintendent, Upsala 14. Brent Nelson, Principal, Mora 15. Dave Rocheleau, Activities Director, Pierz

Region 6A 16. Brian Hovland, Activities Director, Underwood 17. Wayne Petermeier, Activities Director, Browerville 18. Norm Gallant, Activities Director, Wadena-Deer Creek

Region 7A 19. Pat Rendle, Superintendent, Hill City 20. Jason Cline, Assistant Principal, Aitkin 21. Dave Foster, Activities Director, Cromwell-Wright

Region 8A 22. Scott Koberinski, Activities Director, East Grand Forks 23. Stewart Wilson, Speech Representative, Walker-Hackensack-Akeley 24. Gregg Parks, Superintendent, Nevis

2020-2021 REPRESENTATIVE ASSEMBLY DELEGATES The rulesmaking body of the Minnesota State High School League

MSHSL Administrative Staff

Tom Jerome Roseau

Vice President

Troy Stein Edina

Treasurer

Dr. Julie Anderson St. Cloud

Dustin Bosshart St. Clair

Mike Domin Crosby-Ironton

Walt Hautala Mesabi East

Dawn Engebretson

Rockford

Amanda Kaus Rochester Century

Ceil McDonald St. Paul

John Ostrowski Dover-Eyota

Kirby Ekstrom North Branch Area

Todd Waterbury Mankato East

Sandra Setter Larsen

Eagan

Jim Smokrovich East Ridge

Frank White Woodbury

Gary Revenig Monticello

Executive Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erich Martens Executive Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lynne Johnson Associate Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lisa Lissimore Administrative Assistant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sheila Robinson Associate Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bob Madison Administrative Assistant. . . . . . . . . . . . . Amanda Johnson

Associate Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jody Redman Administrative Assistant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amie Ince Assistant Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richard Matter Accounting Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jackie Grausam Ticket Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nancy Myers Assistant Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amy Doherty Assistant Director. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Laura Mackenthun

Office Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Susi Hollenbeck Media Specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Millea Communications Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tim Leighton Coordinator of Officials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jason Nickleby Administrative Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pam Inniger Information Specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ellen Rajkowski

Bill Tauer Tracy-Milroy-Balaton

John Vraa New London-Spicer

2020-2021 MSHSL BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Blaine Novak New York Mills

President