state speech results

Here they are, the year-ending state results:

FX
2nd- Amy Reitz

DX
13th- Nirav Shah

DISC
17th- Chrissi Gentry

IMP
12th- Tara Zuber

POE
2nd- Phuc Nguyen

DI
12th- Katherine Beyers
16th- Emily Nejad

Class A
8th Rossville 1.25
7th Heritage 1.25
6th Mater Dei 1.75
5th North Putnam 4
4th Crawfordsville 5.5
3rd Park Tudor 15
2nd Signature 17
1st Maconaquah 25.75

Class AA
8th New Castle Chrysler 2
7th Logansport 2
6th Concord 4
5th New Haven 6.25
4th Culver 19.5
3rd Ft. Wayne South Side 25.75
2nd Munster 75.25
1st Plymouth 105

Class AAA
8th Reitz 17.75
7th LaPorte 19
6th Elkhart Central 19.5
5th Ft. Wayne Northrop 21.25
4th Warren Central 21.5
3rd Ft. Wayne Snider 24
2nd North Central 29.5
1st Chesterton 31.25

For full Evansville results, check out Mike Knight's post. Full individual results at the IHSFA website.

Commentary: State speech has some very, very good competition. If you are not polished, you will not break. Foreign Extemp has degenerated into extemptu, and analysis is made up. Signature's 2nd in sweeps is definitely very good, but honestly, slightly disappointing. We were hoping to take out Maconaquah, but they had more finalists than we did. But Phuc did take out Jessica Dulworth (last year's state poetry champion from Mac.), even though he dislocated his arm in finals. Hardcore.