River Valley Speakers with their team trophy earned for champion of small schools at the large River Valley Invitational Tournament.

River Valley speakers are tops of small schools

Take fourth place overall in large tournament on Feb. 16 in Redwood Falls

On Saturday, February 16, the Springfield Speech team competed in the Redwood Valley Invitational Tournament.  It was large, three round tournament with 250 speech entries and 18 schools competing. As a team, River Valley Speakers were small school champions and out of all the schools competing, we took fourth place overall.

Individuals receiving special recognition were:

Colton Jensen —1st place, Creative Expression

Eli Kirschstein — 1st place , Original Oratory

Sarah Dunn — 1st place, Humorous

Grace Pingeon — 2nd place, Drama

Layla Schwarzrock — 4th place, Poetry

Meriah Kirschstein — 6th place, Extemporaneous Reading

Kendall Kelly — 6th place, Poetry

Isaac Rasset — Blue Ribbon, Informative

Kiera Lafferty — blue Ribbon, Prose.

KayLynn Sanderville —Blue Ribbon, Extemporaneous Reading

Anna Reiner — Red Ribbon, Prose

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