February 9, 2023
The MPA Speech Team has recently won the tournament championship THREE times: at Mound-Westonka, Duluth, and Pequot Lakes. Twenty-five students have placed so far on the team, and MPA students won their categories a total of 28 times! The team has also shattered its previous National Tournament Qualifications Record in just one month, with a total of 16 entries (with two more months left to go). Outstanding!
This is the largest the team has been in a very long time, and there have been multiple occasions when MPA has swept the top three places in some categories. MPA has been competing against some of the best schools in the country, and the team is excited to share some of their performances with the community and public on Thursday, February 16 at 6 PM in the Nicholson Center. Join us!
Students who are qualified to Nationals at this moment are:
- Lucy Schwieger (In Duo and Drama)
- Frances Martin (In Duo and Extemp)
- Paul Fertig (Extemp)
- Amal Sastry (Extemp)
- Zaara Nayak (Extemp and Oratory)
- Maggie Banks (Humor)
- Zainab Lodhi (Info and POI)
- Rowan Mulrooney (Info)Akshay Somayajula (Oratory)
- Max O’Connor (Oratory)
- Meiran Carlson (POI)
- Pahwa Yang (POI and Prose)
- Greta Hanson (Prose)
