North Star speakers do well at online tourneys

Press release

The North Star speech and drama team’s first virtual meets of the season are now in the books.

About 32 teams competed at the Class BC online tournament hosted by Belfry Dec. 5.

In spontaneous oral interpretation of literature, Emily Conner went to semifinals and finals and placed eighth. Also in SPOI, Quinn Trueax made it to semis and placed 14th. Competing in humorous theater acting, Choral Wicks and Kaden Frickel just missed out on finals, placing ninth.

Being remote made it very interesting and intense, but the team survived thanks to some ingenuity and early morning tech sup...