group of speech team students with their coach

HENRY COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Susan Burton

Communications Director

Hendersonville, TN – The Henry County Speech Team competed in the Commando Invitational over the weekend with over 20 other high schools and 6 middle schools participating in multiple events. The middle school team placed third in the competition and the high school team placed sixth in a tough competition.

Speech team coach, David Weatherly, explains “This was the final tournament for the middle school this year. The high school team travels to Cookeville for the national qualifying tournament next weekend and will be hosting the State qualifier at HCHS on March 28th & 29th.”

The following individuals placed in their events:

HIGH SCHOOL

Dramatic Interpretation

Tim Tyler 3rd

Joshua Lancaster 4th

Canaan Barrow 7th

Anna Jo Wardlaw 8th

Duo Interpretation

Lancaster/Maple Townsend 3rd

Impromptu Speaking

Townsend 2nd

Poetry

Wardlaw 4th

Prose

Lancaster 2nd

Program Oral Interpretation

Logan Barnhart 4th

TV Broadcasting

Matt Ybarra 5th

MIDDLE SCHOOL

Declamation

Parker Vowell 1st

Improvisational Duo Acting

Allie Stephens/Elijah Adamson 1st

Extemporaneous Speaking

Madison Duncan 4th

Poetry

Grey Mixon 1st

Vowell 2nd

Kegan Belote 3rd

Stephens 4th

Prose

Adamson 4th

Storytelling

Mixon 3rd