It’s
been another year of growth and success for the Columbus East High School
Speech Team. We are grateful to you all
for helping out with the successful execution of two home speech meets over the
course of two months as well as assisting with the judging of invitational
tournaments throughout the season. We
are so grateful for your continued support of the team, and we feel privileged
to be a part of your child(ren)’s life.
Among the major highlights of this
year, we successfully qualified our first entry into the NFL National
Speech and Debate tournament to be held this year in June in Overland Park,
KS. This is a huge accomplishment for
our qualifying duo of Mariann Fant and Tessa Hirons, and marks yet another
level of sustained success for Columbus East Speech.
On the
state level, the team has taken home trophies at all but two meets this year—a
remarkable accomplishment as we have competed in 10 total meets. CEHS Speech is continuing to earn the respect of schools
all over the state, but especially among schools in Central Indiana and most
notably among the powerhouse metro Indianapolis schools.
The
culmination of this successful year will be the March 15th IHSFA
State Speech Tournament at Fishers High School.
Those parents who have had team members qualified in this tournament or
in attendance can vouch for the fact that this is an extremely long day of
competition along the same lines as the District Solo Speech tournament that
was contested on March 8th at Logansport. The team leaves the parking lot for Fishers
at 5:30am and returns to the CEHS at about 11:00pm. We ask that you send cash with your
child as we plan on stopping for some kind of quick dinner somewhere in the
area before we make the drive home.
There
will be roughly 48 entries per event (14 X 48 = 672 entries). There will be three preliminary rounds of
competition, two semifinal rounds, and one final round. Head coaches have to be there the entire day
to judge or work the tournament. If your
child doesn’t break semis or finals, then their day ends at about 11:30 or 12
noon. If your child breaks to semis or
finals, then it would probably make sense for them to stay the whole day.
If you
are available to take your child home should his or her day end early, then we
will need a signed note stating that you are taking your child home for
purposes of head count and liability at the end of the trip. Either Anna or
Matt will also need to see you and your child before you leave, just so we know
that your child has left with you. We
would love to have the entire state-qualifying team stay for the whole day to
support semifinalists and finalists, but understand if your child doesn’t want
to stay the whole day. We just want to
let everyone know what impacts the State Tournament might have on families.
If you
have any questions, please call Matt on his cell (812) 343-7533 or Anna on her
cell (860) 831-0081. Or email us at cehs.speech@gmail.com
or afcarmon@gmail.com.
Thanks! Matt and Anna
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