By Lorrie Ham Nine Westonka speech competitors advanced to the Region 2AA North/West section tournament on April 17 at Chaska High School after competing in the subsection tournament April 11 in New Ulm. Competing at sections were: ninth-grader Merrick Gormley, Poetry; sophomore Grace Hanson, Discussion; junior Taylor Hummelsund, Poetry; ninth-grader Katherine Johnson, Informative; ninth-grader Hayden
By Kelsey Rausch Westonka Speech had a busy past week. On March 15, Westonka Speech hosted its very own middle school tournament at Grandview Middle School. The first annual Ides of March Tournament had 75 competitors from across the state. Westonka Speech saw great success, with seven team members earning the top spot in their
By Kelsey Rausch The Westonka Speech Team dominated at the Norwood Young America Speech Tournament on Feb. 17. Due to the overwhelming success of the team, Westonka Speech took first place overall in team sweepstakes with a whopping 85 points. The team also took home over 20 individual awards. Three Mound Westonka High School students
By Kelsey Rausch Westonka Speech competed at its third tournament of the season on Feb. 3 at the Prior Lake Speech Invitational. This year, many varsity students are having success by double entering in multiple categories, and many novice students are having success in their new categories. At Prior Lake, five Westonka students broke into
By Kelsey Rausch The Westonka speech team headed down to Marshall, Minnesota on Jan. 26 for the 18th Annual Marshall Speech Spectacular. This huge tournament boasts over 800 competitors from states across the Midwest. Westonka Speech brought 39 competitors to the competition and managed to break 10 competitors into finals, doubling the amount of students
The Westonka Activities Department is proud to name Mound Westonka High School junior Taylor Hummelsund Athletic/Activities Student of the Week for the week of Jan. 22, 2018. She is one of the captains of the Westonka Speech Team this year. Last year, Hummelsund impressed coaches by working harder than almost anyone on the team. She
The Westonka Speech Team starts its competitive season this Saturday, Jan. 20, at Orono High School. Together with Orono Speech, Westonka Speech will host the Second Annual Odyssey Tournament. The teams are looking forward to an attendance of upwards of 400 competitors from across Minnesota. Westonka Speech will be bringing 50 talented students to this tournament
Come out to Mound Westonka High School on Thursday, April 27, to see the Westonka Speech Team perform for the last time this season. Performances will begin at 5 p.m. in the MWHS Student Commons and will go through 6 p.m. Come and see why Westonka Speech was so successful this year!
Pictured above: Mound Westonka High School senior Megan Martin (center) is congratulated by advisors Kelsey Rausch (left) and Danielle Hamilton (right) at the Section 2AA Speech Tournament on April 8 Westonka Speech finished the 2016-2017 season at the Section 2AA Tournament in Chanhassen on April 8 and had two students break into the semifinal round.
Westonka Speech competed at the Northfield Speech Tournament on March 18 and had three ribbon winners. Ninth-graders Anders Erdahl and Trinity Bielke and senior Megan Martin were all awarded honorable mentions. The team’s next tournament is this Saturday, March 25, at St. Cloud. It will be the White Hawks’ last tournament before they head to
