Forensics  

Veronica Wood and Kolton Lehman, seniors, placed second in the Improvised Duet Acting (IDA) category at a recent forensics competition in Paola on March 5.

Lehman also placed first in the Tabloid Extemp category and Wood placed second in Dramatic Interpretation (DI) and in Duet Acting (DA) along with Susie Kaufman, senior.

Katy Dorrell and Sarah Hendrickson, seniors, scored first and second, respectively, in the Congress section of the competition. Dorrell also placed first in the Domestic Extemp (DX) category.

Carter Jones, sophomore, placed second in the Impromptu category, and Molly Neyens, senior, placed fifth in Prose and also qualified for state.

Nathan Enserro, senior, placed fifth in the Foreign Extemp category.

Shakespeare competition

Liam Chewning, junior, placed second in the Shakespeare competition run by the Kansas City branch of the English-Speaking Union on Feb. 28.

Chewning, who performed Shakespeare’s sonnet number 27 and a Shakespeare monologue, received a $50 check from ESU as well as a second place medal.

He competed with 17 other students, some from both Missouri and Kansas schools, one of whom is home-schooled. Three theatre professionals judged the competition.

Mock trial

The mock trial team won a professionalism award, an extremely prestigious award which is chosen by the other teams and given to the team that was the most professional and respectful.

Two teams went to the trial at Johnson County Courthouse on Feb. 27. The varsity team had six students on it, and the novice team had seven students in it. The teams were mentored by actual judges or law students.