On Saturday, February 28th, the District 97 Speech Team won 1st place with the top score in the West 40 Speech and Drama Festival held at Elmwood Park High School. This is the district’s fifth consecutive year winning first place.
The Speech Team is comprised of students and coaches from Julian and Brooks. Each school takes on five events. The Julian half of the team competed in the following: Reader’s Theater, Dramatic Presentation, Serious Duet, Humorous Duet, and Trio Presentation.
Julian coaches Malachy Boyle, William McGlynn, and Bessie Santos are proud of the team, especially their Julian students who earned perfect scores in four of the five events in which they competed.
These are the Julian students who competed and excelled in their events:
- Cecily Abbott
- Alfonso Acevedo
- Katherine Andolina
- Emma Ashley
- Vivienne Badynee
- Micah Daniels
- Joe Frantzen
- Nico Gonzalez-Stuver
- Racquel Hernandez
- Adele Henning
- Kira Imowitz
- Margaret Kennedy
- Lizzie Larsheid
- Matt Layden
- Isabelle Meyer
- Jonathan Perkins
- Dox Raskin
- Lucy Jordan
- Ryan Pont
- Carolyn Robling Griest
- Matt Shack
- Juliana Sosa