The speech and debate team came home with another first-place finish after this weekend’s tournament.
The Green River High School Speech and Debate team traveled to Star Valley to compete against six other schools, which is one of the team’s smaller competitions.
“Star Valley hosted an excellent tournament and we will be returning to it again,” head coach Carina White said.
Green River came out on top with 150 points, followed by Jackson with 81 points and Riverton with 48 points.
“The team did an excellent job; they rose to my expectations for them and it was such a good tournament for us,” White said. “Our students have an excellent work ethic and they work together and boost each other up.”
Even with this weekend’s great performance, White knows there is always room for improvement.
Those who compete in duet and humor have to memorize their pieces and now that they’ve had a few tournaments to perform them, it’s time to start perfecting them. As for the debaters, they need to work on their arguments and their responses.
“So many students stood out, but I really felt like all of our novice really stepped up as new varsity members and most of them staged this weekend,” white said. “Matthew Pickering continues to win Congress and Mikki Scott has won informative several times now. We have a lot of talent on this team.”
Jackson and Riverton always have strong teams and Riverton consistently dominates the interpretation category.
This weekend, the team will travel to Evanston for another small tournament. About eight schools are supposed to be there. One of those schools in Cheyenne East and they are going to bring their whole team to this one, White said. Rock Springs and Jackson will also be there.
“It is going to be tough competition and since it is smaller the path to final rounds will be more difficult because we will be competing head to head in preliminary rounds against very difficult competitors,” White said.
Star Valley results
Humor: Will Allen, first place, Elijah Kropf, third place, Amber Gambles and Raymond Garcia, fourth place
Extemporaneous: Hannah Thomas, second place, Kassie Bohlmann, fourth place, Alex Shafe, fifth place, Spencer Travis, sixth place
Oratory: Elijah Kropf, first place, Jenna Robertson, fourth place, Spencer Travis, fifth place
Impromptu: Kassie Bohlmann, fifth place, Alex Shafe, seventh place, Dallin Kurth and Levi Peterson semifinalists
Informative: Mikki Scott, first place
Duo: Garcia and Robinson, third place, Worrell Skinner, fifth place, Parry Gambles, seventh place, Madi Sam, sixth place
Program Oral Interpretation: Olivia Nielsen, third place, Jenna Robertson, fourth place, Kami Lloyd, fifth place, Hayley Cloward, seventh place, Trista Parry, eighth place
Poetry: Mia Worrell, fourth place, Lauryn Skinner, sixth place, Kami Lloyd, seventh place
Congress: Matthew Pickering, first place, Rachel Heisinger, second place, Rebecca Shamer, fourth place
Public forum debate: Will Allen and Dallin Kurth, first grade, Rory Matt, third grade
Lincoln Douglas: Mikki Scott, second place
Drama: Will Allen, second place, Raymond Garcia, fourth place, Kami Lloyd, fifth place
Cross examination: Madison Young and Ethan Peterson, first-place, Caleb Ragsdale and Calie Ramey and Shelbee McFadden and Grace Duncan tied for second place, Danny Christensen and Douglas Leffers, third place
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