March 23, 2015
Dear Speech Parents:
It’s
been another year of growth and success for the Columbus East High School
Speech Team. We are grateful for your
assistance in helping us with this growth and success. Whether it was getting your kids to the bus
VERY EARLY on Saturday mornings or helping with concessions at the IUPUC/Ivy
Tech meet in December or planning on helping us before we had to cancel the
Columbus East meet in February… all of it means a great deal to us as
coaches. It is also a supreme privilege
working with your kids and watching them grow and succeed as speakers.
The
team has taken home trophies at almost all of the meets it attended this year—a
remarkable accomplishment as we have competed in 10 total meets and often had
less than a full team competing. CEHS
Speech continues earning the respect of schools all over the state, 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 28th IHSFA
State Speech Tournament at Fishers High School.
Those parents who have had team members qualified in this tournament 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
14th at Noblesville. The team
leaves the parking lot for Fishers at 5:00am and returns to the CEHS at about 10:30pm. While we don’t think we will be that late
this year, you and your families should be prepared for a long day for your
child.
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. 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 is
going on going into the State Tournament.
If your
child is to stay for the whole day and leave with the team after the conclusion
of the tournament, then it would be wise if you sent a little extra cash with
them as we will be stopping for dinner on the way home (a tradition that dates
back four years now).
If you
have any questions, please call Matt on his cell (812) 343-7533 or Anna on her
cell (860) 836-0081. Or email us at cehs.speech@gmail.com
or afcarmon@gmail.com.
Thanks again for all that you do, and for all that you have
done for the team this year!
Matt Rothrock & Anna Carmon
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