Local speech and debate members off to State

Lovell/Rocky Mountain high school speech and debate team travels to Cheyenne March 13-15 for the 2025 WHSAA State Speech and Debate Tournament. This tournament will be held at Cheyenne South High School, with 34 schools attending and more than 300 individuals competing. 

The members of the Lovell/Rocky Mountain team have been working hard to get to this point, and they are ready, coach Heather Mickelson said.

 Lilian Wenstrom is competing in Program Oral Interpretation with a piece titled “We Were Best of Friends.”

“This piece brings awareness to abuse in friendship, and it also emphasizes that friendship abuse is no less of an ordeal opposed to other types of abuse,” Wenstrom said.

Lilly Keele is competing in Informative Speaking with a piece titled “Split
Brain Surgery and the Left- Brain Interpreter.”

Bianca Krei is competing in Poetry with a piece titled “Time Goes On.”

Nikia Heron is competing in Informative Speaking with a piece titled “Black Footed Ferrets” and said her piece explains the diet, lifestyle, classification extinction and the reintroduction efforts of the black- footed ferret.

Bella Gallagher is competing in Original Oratory with a piece on age discrepancy in the military and being an adult.

Christy Aagard is competing in Informative Speaking with a piece about Peacock Spiders.

Matthew Allen will compete in Impromptu and will be given a topic. He will then have seven minutes with a 30-second “grace period” which includes both preparation and speaking.

Coach Mickelson said it has been a good season for the team as  they have worked hard to improve their pieces and have grown in confidence.