{"id":28356,"date":"2025-04-25T19:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T00:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=28356"},"modified":"2025-05-01T11:35:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:35:33","slug":"mpa-speech-team-wins-state-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2025\/04\/25\/mpa-speech-team-wins-state-again\/","title":{"rendered":"MPA Speech Team Wins State Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignright wp-image-28357 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/State-Speech-Champions-4.25.25-WP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re thrilled to share that the MPA speech team has won the state championship for the third year in a row\u2014an incredible achievement and a perfect springboard into the national season ahead! Highlights from the state tournament include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new school record of 69 points, breaking our own previous best.<\/li>\n<li>16 students earned individual medals, tying the school\u2019s all-time record set in 2004.<\/li>\n<li>Paul Fertig became MPA\u2019s 50th individual state champion, the most in Class A history and third-most in Minnesota history overall.<\/li>\n<li>Esteemed judge Roxy Janke, with over 40 years of experience, praised our team, saying: \u201cI feel like I could just sit down across from them, and they would teach me everything about their piece.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Next up: Nationals! The team will travel to Kansas City on May 15 for NIETOC, followed by a trip to Des Moines for the 100th anniversary of the NSDA. Good luck, Panthers!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Full MPA Results From State:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paul Fertig: State Champion, Extemporaneous Speaking<\/li>\n<li>Guy Schwieger and Nico Bergh: Second place, Duo<\/li>\n<li>Amal Sastry: Second place, Extemporaneous Speaking<\/li>\n<li>Mina Kim: Second place, Great Speeches<\/li>\n<li>Nabila Artan: Third place, Original Oratory<\/li>\n<li>Oslo Norcross: Third place, Informative Speaking<\/li>\n<li>Rowan Mulrooney: Fourth place, Great Speeches<\/li>\n<li>Alyona Vietrova: Fourth place, Poetry<\/li>\n<li>Mari Minear: Fifth place, Great Speeches<\/li>\n<li>Warner Reid and Hazel Reid: Sixth place, Duo<\/li>\n<li>Sidd Sastry: Sixth place, Extemporaneous Speaking<\/li>\n<li>Zainab Lodhi: Sixth place, Informative Speaking<\/li>\n<li>Ash Klann: Sixth place, Original Oratory<\/li>\n<li>Kelvyn Boddipalli: Seventh place, Humorous Interpretation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re thrilled to share that the MPA speech team has won the state championship for the third year in a row\u2014an incredible achievement and a perfect springboard into the national season ahead! Highlights from the state tournament include: A new school record of 69 points, breaking our own previous best. 16 students earned individual medals, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,8,28,24,29,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admission","category-all-school","category-current-families","category-featured-posts","category-homepage","category-upper-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28356"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28397,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28356\/revisions\/28397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}