GACC Speech Team

Isabel received the state champion medal in Serious Prose, and Caleb received a 5th place medal in Extemporaneous!! 🎉💙

We are so incredibly proud of all the hard work these two put in this season!!

UPDATE: Isabel and Caleb both made finals!! 🎉🎉

Today's the big day! Say some prayers for continued success as the season comes to an end this afternoon 🙏💙

The entire team put everything into it yesterday, and we are so proud of each and every one of them!!

State Qualifiers:
Isabel Hass - 2nd in Serious
Caleb Ridder - 3rd in Extemp

District Finalists:
Sydney Hutchinson - 4th Persuasive, 5th Informative
Helena Steffensmeier - 6th Persuasive
Julianne Ridder - 6th Humorous
Becca Jansen - 5th POI
Ava Knobbe - 4th Entertainment
Ava Karnopp - 6th Informative

Come support us tomorrow in Bancroft!!

We forgot to take pictures on Friday (Lindsay), but here are pictures from Saturday (Mead) when we were third overall!
Not pictured, Brooklyn & Natalie - 6th (Lindsay)

We're bringing home individual AND team hardware this week!

Yesterday we competed in Bancroft. Here's the results!

We had our first meet this past weekend in Columbus. Even though we were missing people, we still brought home some hardware!

Mark your calendars! Greta’s entertainment speech on dependency will be aired on Nebraska Public Media on April 30 at 1 p.m. during the NSAA’s Best of the Best Showcase.

The Best of the Best Showcase consists of the best speech in each of the 10 NSAA speech events: Serious Prose, Humorous Prose, Duet, OID, POI, Entertainment, Informative, Persuasive, Extemporaneous, and Poetry. Here’s your chance to see what speech is all about! We promise you won’t be disappointed.

https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/watch/live/

Congratulations to Greta for being selected as the 2023 Best of the Best in Entertainment Speaking! Her speech will be aired on April 30. We will keep you posted with more details!

Congratulations to the NSAA Speech Best of the Best recipients! The program will air April 30th on Nebraska Public Media!

Greta Wooldrik is a 3-time (back to back to back) STATE CHAMPION in Entertainment Speaking, and Isabel Hass brought home a 3rd place medal in Serious Prose!

We are so proud of all of our state speakers - a great day to be a Bluejay! 💙

Greta Wooldrik and Isabel Hass made finals and are currently competing for state medals! 🥳

One last meet! Here we go!

Round 1: 8:30 a.m.
Round 2: 10:30 a.m.
Round 3: 1 p.m.
Finals: 3:30 p.m.

And we’re off! Father gave us a blessing as we loaded up and hit the road for Kearney. State Bound! 💙

Your Bluejays are District C2-4 runner-up!

STATE QUALIFIERS:
1st - Humorous - Erin Jensen
1st - Entertainment - Greta Wooldrik
2nd - Serious - Isabel Hass
3rd - Persuasive - Sydney Hutchinson
3rd - Poetry - Mackenzie Schmid

MEDAL WINNERS:
4th - Poetry - Becca Jansen
4th - Informative - Sydney Hutchinson
4th - Duet - Mackenzie Schmid & Erin Jensen
5th - Duet - Natalie Ruskamp & Brooklyn Steffen
6th - Persuasive - Helena Steffensmeier

UPDATE: 10/14 events broke finals! These events are currently competing for a chance at state (top 3 in each event moves onto state):

Duet - Brooklyn & Natalie
Duet - Erin & Mackenzie
Informative - Sydney
Entertainment - Greta
Humorous - Erin
Poetry - Becca
Poetry - Mackenzie
Serious - Isabel
Persuasive - Helena
Persuasive - Sydney

Awards ceremony will be live streamed on Thayer Central’s YouTube. (Probably starting around 6 p.m.)

Here we go! Districts commence at 9 a.m. 🗣️

Mid-State Conference results!

Our team got 5th overall:

1st Varsity Humorous - Erin Jensen
3rd Varsity Entertainment - Greta Wooldrik
4th Varsity Duet - Erin Jensen & Mackenzie Schmid
5th Varsity Extemporaneous - Caleb Ridder
6th Varsity Persuasive - Helena Steffensmeier
6th Varsity Serious - Isabel Hass

Thank you to all who came out to watch our Bluejay Spechers! We are competing in our conference tournament on Saturday @ Boone Central, then heading to Thayer Central for Districts on March 1. Crunch time!!

We traveled to Battle Creek today for our last regular season meet - here are our results:

1st Champs Varsity Humorous - Erin Jensen
1st Champs Varsity Entertainment - Greta Wooldrik
5th - Champs Varsity Informative - Sydney Hutchinson
5th - Champs Varsity Persuasive - Sydney Hutchinson

1st - Honors Varsity Serious - Isabel Hass
2nd - Honors Varsity Poetry - Mackenzie Schmid
6th - Honors Varsity Duet - Sydney Hutchinson and Emerson Ortmeier

1st - JV Humorous - Julie Ridder
6th - JV Duet - Isaac Wooldrik and Caleb Ridder

GACC Speech team came in runner up in the varsity division today at the Howells-Dodge meet!

Results:
🥇1st Varsity Humorous - Erin Jensen
🥇1st Varsity Entertainment - Greta Wooldrik
🥈2nd Varsity Serious - Isabel Hass
🥈2nd Varsity Persuasive - Sydney Hutchinson
🏅4th Varsity Duet - Erin Jensen and Mackenzie Schmid
🏅5th Varsity Informative - Sydney Hutchinson
🏅5th Varsity Persuasive - Helena Steffensmeier
🏅6th Varsity Duet - Natalie Ruskamp and Brooklyn Steffen
🏅6th JV Humorous - Julie Ridder
🏅6th JV Duet - Peri Guenther and Ava Knobbe

Our GACC speech team competed at Wakefield’s Sweet Meet today. Here are the results:

Varsity overall 3rd place

1st Varsity Persuasive - Sydney Hutchinson
1st Varsity Serious Prose - Isabel Hass
2nd Varsity Entertainment - Greta Wooldrik
3rd Varsity Humorous Prose - Erin Jensen
4th Varsity Persuasive - Helena Steffensmeier

3rd JV Humorous - Julie Ridder
5th JV Poetry - Becca Jansen
5th JV Duet - Caleb Ridder & Isaac Wooldrik
6th JV Entertainment - Kennedy Baumert

Today we competed in Schuyler with over 20 other teams - here are our results!

3rd Varsity Entertainment Speaking - Greta Wooldrik

3rd Varsity Persuasive Speaking Honors - Sydney Hutchinson

4th Varsity Duet Acting Merit - Sydney Hutchinson & Emerson Ortmeier

6th JV Poetry - Becca Jansen

Varsity Serious Prose Honors - Isabel Hass (Left early for basketball so did not perform in final round)