Seward High Wins Six Medals At Aurora Speech Meet

By Kolterman, Clark on February 07, 2011

Seward High captured six medals and a stack of superior ratings at the
recent Aurora High School Speech Tournament in Aurora, Nebraska on Saturday,
February 5, 2011.  Dayna Svoboda placed Second in Serious Prose Literature,
Jillan Kongsjord placed Fourth in Entertaining, Carl Heinicke placed Sixth
in Extemporaneous Speaking, Alyssa Sleight 8047087351placed Third in
Informative Speaking, Bryce Van Velson placed Fourth in Poetry (N) and the
Drama Team-consisting of Lauren Shepherd, Sierra Wignall, Sarah Moody and
Allison Leising, placed Fifth in Drama (N).  The team placed sixth of the 27
schools competing. Aurora won the tourney.  Clark Kolterman serves as their
speech coach.
Participants included Zach Bruick-Extemp-Superior, Informative-Excellent,
Carl Heinicke-Extemp-Superior, Jillian Kongsjord-Duet-Superior, Drama Team-
Superior, Entertaining-4th Place, Brandon O'Dell-Entertaining-Superior,
Drama Team-Superior, Bryce Van Velson-Poetry-Second Place, Drama Team-
Superior, Entertaining-Superior, Allison Leising-Entertaining-Superior,
Drama Team-5th Place, Dillon Holder-Serious Prose-Superior, Drama Team-
Superior, Duet-Excellent, Jaclyn Pennington-Serious Prose-Superior,
Informative-Superior, Dayna Svoboda-Second-Serious Prose, Drama Team-
Superior, Duet Superior, Lea Kayton-Persuasion-Superior, Informative-
Superior, Alyssa Sleight-Informative-Third Place, Persuasive-Superior,

Lauren Shepherd-Drama Team-Fifth Place, Poetry-Superior, Bethany Rexus-Duet-
Excellent, Jessica Kadavy-Poetry-Superior, Duet Superior, Doug Simpson-Duet-
Superior, Drama Team-Superior, Bobi Albrecht-Drama Team-Superior, Poetry-
Superior, Robby Kirkland-Drama Team-Superior and Daniel Pfeiffer-Persuasion-
Superior, Drama Team-Superior.