From the March 21, 2002 edition of The Wayne Herald
Wakefield speech team wins districts
The Wakefield High School won the District C2-4 Speech Contest held at Northeast Community College on March 18.
Wisner-Pilger was the runnerup; Lyons-Decatur, third; BancroftRosalie, fourth; Winnabago, fifth; Emerson Hubbard, sixth and Homer, seventh.
The Class C2 State Speech Contest will be held Friday, March 22 in Kearney, hosted by the University of Nebraska-Kearney.
Individual results are as follows. (Only first and second place finishers qualify for state.)
First Place — The Oral Interpretation of Drama team of John Danforth, Adam Hansen, Jenna Paulson, Nicole Peters and Jessica Schroeder; Jana Erickson in Informative Speaking and Katie Davis in Persuasive Speaking.
Second Place — Toan Nguyen, Informative Speaking; Jana Erickson and Molly Evers, Duet; Jenna Paulson, Persuasive Speaking and Katie Davis, Serious Prose.
Third Place — Kristi Schroeder, Extemporaneous; Ashley Anderson, Entertainment and Adam Hansen, Humorous Prose.
The team is coached by Zoe Vander Weil.
