Atlantic Speech and Debate

2024 Individual All-State Speech honors!! 🎭 Our team is so strong and supportive of each other--it's fantastic to see how they've grown as performers this year! Big congratulations to these students who have their hard work honored at the All-State Festival at UNI on March 25th!

Results from State IE Speech at ADM! So incredibly proud of this group!! What an amazing turnout! 🎭 26 entries Straight 1s - 12 Mixed 1s - 8 Mixed 2s - 4 Straight 2s - 2 Now we anxiously await the All-State nominations being posted Monday after school!

District Individual Speech at Council Bluffs TJ!! 🎭

What a day at District Individual Speech!! 29 entries and 26 of them received Division 1 ratings and move on to State! 🎭

So incredibly proud of this group!! 🎭 ihssa.org/UserDocs/pages…

Choral Reading is performing at All-State!! These students dealt with an unusual version of State contest and still pulled off a phenomenal performance of their piece! So very proud of the work put in and the dedication to this story. They are incredible!! 🎭

State Debate was held Jan 5-6 at DMACC in Ankeny PF teams Alix & Bailey went 2-3 Abi & Suri went 1-4 Congress Molina placed 4th in C House Nick A is B House Champion! Nick B placed 11th in A House Nissa placed 7th in A House Maggie competed, however fell sick but learned a lot

Results from District Large Group Speech at ACGC Very proud of all the work our kids put in! All the crazy snow days made things difficult this year, but they all grew as performers! 🎭🙌🏼

What wind chill?? 😆 Heading out to ACGC for District Large Group!! 🎭🙌🏼

It’s cookie time!! Bang Cookies are huge & delicious and your purchase helps out our small but mighty Speech & Debate program!! 🎭🎭🍪🍪 Available for the next two weeks & they will ship right to you, anywhere in the US!

Lincoln Railsplitter Congress Results Chamber 1 Nick Anderson 1st!🥇 Nick Bennett 4th Bailey Grieshaber 10th Chamber 2 Nissa Molgaard 1st!🥇 J Molina 6th Abi Andersen 11th So proud of this team!!

Lincoln Railsplitter Results Maggie McCurdy DI 1st Nissa Molgaard IX 1st & INFO 3rd Alix Nath HI 2nd & 2nd in POI Nick Anderson USX 4th J Molina OO 5th Bailey Grieshaber OO 10th Abi Andersen OO 12th Xander Cook HI 6th Duo of Nick Bennett & J Molina 9th Last tournament of 2023!

Photos from Dowling Paradigm 🎭 Also featuring Nick Anderson who competed in Student Congress

With the 1st place in Dramatic Interpretation, Maggie has earned a 2nd bid for the NIETOC tournament in May!! Incredibly proud of their accomplishment! Lots of hard work is paying off 🥇🙌🏼

Dowling Paradigm Results: Margaret McCurdy 1st in DI 4th in Poetry 5th in Prose Alix Nath 8th in HI 18th in POI J Molina 14th in OO Xander Cook 18th in Spon 19th in HI 29th in Info With a pool of 550+ students from 8 states, this was a huge tournament to compete and learn!

Skyhawk Smackdown in Utah Nissa Molgaard 1st in Info J. Molina 1st in Declamation Maggie McCurdy 2nd in DI Bailey Grieshaber 10th in OO

Online results from some Async Tournaments Quarry Lane in California Maggie McCurdy 1st in DI Nissa Molgaard 3rd in Extemp Nick Anderson 4th in Extemp Bailey Grieshaber 8th in OO

Past results from a Nebraska/Iowa dual weekend: Friday was Squashfest at Millard South in Omaha Maggie McCurdy 3rd in DI and 4th in Poetry Saturday was Des Moines North Polar Bear Open Student Congress Nissa Molgaard 3rd in Chamber 3 Bailey Grieshaber 4th in Chamber 1