Rittscher Wins Humorous Prose At Norfolk Speech Meet

Speech meets are serious business, but Clearwater-Orchard has the Oral Humorous Prose down pat. After all, Hannah Rittscher picked up her third championship of the year Saturday at one of the biggest meets of the season.

Rittscher took home the gold medal at the Norfolk Panther Classic while teammate Pammie Maxwell was sixth. They faced stiff competition from schools Columbus Lakeview, Hartington, Wahoo-Bishop Neumann, Norfolk, David City, Ainsworth and many others.

Abby Kester also placed in the varsity competition and was fourth in Entertainment Speaking for the Cyclones.

Several Clearwater-Orchard students just missed the finals.

In Oral Interpretation of Drama, Kester, Rittscher, Emily Filsinger and Whitney Rittscher were second in next-in final results; Tess Klaver was fourth in Entertainment Speaking; Mallorry Cooper was fifth in Oral Interpretation of Humorous Prose and Audrey Wilhelm was sixth in Extemporaneous Speaking.

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