Speech team second at Cathedral meet
Princeton 10th grader Jessica Lindstrom gives a speech on the various aspects of the high heel, including its history and the social reasons behind wearing them. Lindstrom finished in seventh place in the informative speech category at the St. Cloud Cathedral speech invite. Princeton finished second overall.
The speech season has officially started and the PHS speech team got off to a strong showing with a second-place overall finish Saturday, Feb. 4 at the St. Cloud Cathedral Invitational meet. The team placed second out of 13 schools and had four medalists in first through third place, according to PHS speech coach Thor Mattick.
Princeton’s Bailey Stottrup (Extemp. Reading) and Melissa Trunk (Poetry) were first-place award winners. Tom Crawford (Prose) finished in second place and Andrew Sorenson and Vince Steele (Duo Interpretation) and Kenny Cowles (Extemp. Speaking) turned in third-place performances.
Another 10 students placed in fourth through eighth place in their categories, Mattick said.
Princeton has a very young team this year with almost 20 first-time speech competitors, he said.
The team’s next meet is Saturday at St. Francis High School.
Individual results
8th Place – Creative Expression – Trey Stuckey
7th Place – Discussion – Megan Frandsen
3rd Place – Duo Interpretation – Andrew Sorenson & Vince Steele
1st Place – Extemp. Reading – Bailey Stottrup
8th Place – Extemp. Reading – Rylan Erickson
3rd Place – Extemp. Speaking – Kenny Cowles
4th Place – Great Speeches – Annika Peterson
5th Place – Great Speeches – Nick Langenfeld
5th Place – Humorous – Matt Kreft
6th Place – Informative – Shaelin Lekatz
7th Place – Informative – Jessica Lindstrom
8th Place – Original Oratory – Brian Kunz
1st Place – Poetry – Melissa Trunk
2nd Place – Prose – Tom Crawford
8th Place – Prose – Heather Anderson
7th Place – Storytelling – Tia Ronneburg
Honorable Mention – Storytelling – Gino Fraboni
Team Results
1st – Dassel-Cokato
2nd – Princeton
3rd – Cathedral
4th – Annandale
5th – Zimmerman
