State Individual Speech: Three Postville students garner Division 1 ratings

DELHI – Three Postville students were awarded Division 1 ratings Saturday at the State Individual  Speech Contest at Maquoketa Valley High School.

Olivia Enyart received straight 1 ratings for both her acts while Brooklynn Martins had straight 1’s in her lone act and Kaedyn Heitland had an overall 1 in one of the two acts he qualified for State competition with.

Enyart received 1 ratings from all three judges for both her Acting performance of “Me,” a piece that she also wrote, and for her Solo Musical Theatre performance of “When You’re Good to Mama.” Martins received straight 1 ratings for her Storytelling performance of “No One Likes a Fart” while Heitland  received 1 ratings from two of the three judges for his Public Address speech titled “Caleb Williams’ Heisman Trophy Speech.” 

In addition, five Postville students had Division 2 ratings for their performances.

Acts that receive 1 ratings are eligible to be nominated for the All-State Festival. Those acts were announced after The Herald went to press Monday.

State Individual Speech Contest

(at Maquoketa Valley)

Straight 1 Ratings

Olivia Enyart – Acting –  “Me” by Olivia Enyart

Olivia Enyart – Solo Musical Theatre – “When You’re Good to Mama”

Brooklynn Martins – Storytelling – “No One Likes a Fart”

Overall 1 Ratings

Kaedyn Heitland – Public Address – “Caleb Williams” Heisman Trophy Speech”

Overall 2 Ratings

Kaedyn Heitland – Solo Improvisation

Emerie Nading – Radio News Announcing

Nayeli Palafox-Schultz – Original Oratory – “Sports Burnout”

Selena Tzunux-Tzunux – Solo Musical Theatre – “All the Men in My Life Keep Getting Killed”

Isabelle White – Expository Address – “The Effects of Tariffs on Agriculture”

Isabelle White – Prose – “The Summer Jordi Perez” by  Amy Spaulding