{"id":30084,"date":"2026-04-22T12:52:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=30084"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:54:24","slug":"mpa-speech-team-wins-section-4a-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2026\/04\/22\/mpa-speech-team-wins-section-4a-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"MPA Speech Team Wins Section 4A Championship!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30086 alignright img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/speechwp.png\" alt=\"The MPA speech team wins the section 4A title\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/>Congratulations to the MPA Speech Team on an incredible performance again repeating as the Section 4A champions! We\u2019re excited to celebrate our state qualifying entries (students placing third place or higher):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Discussion:<\/strong> Finnley Henrikssen-Myers<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dramatic Interpretation:<\/strong> Veronica Finc<\/li>\n<li><strong>Duo Interpretation:<\/strong> Guy Schwieger and Nico Bergh<\/li>\n<li><strong>Extemporaneous Speaking:<\/strong> Sidd Sastry, Andrew Buhr, and Josh Murr<\/li>\n<li><strong>Great Speeches:<\/strong> Mina Kim, Tyyna Hall, and Kai Nguyen<\/li>\n<li><strong>Humorous Interpretation:<\/strong> Kelvyn Boddipalli<\/li>\n<li><strong>Informative Speaking:<\/strong> Oslo Norcross<\/li>\n<li><strong>Original Oratory:<\/strong> Ash Klann and LuaClaire Robert<\/li>\n<li><strong>Poetry Reading:<\/strong> Warner Reid<\/li>\n<li><strong>Prose Interpretation:<\/strong> Lucille Mayer, Hazel Reid, and Andrea Pugh<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These students will advance to the state tournament on Saturday, April 25, at Park Center High School. Good luck to all our students advancing\u2014the community is cheering you on every step of the way!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Congratulations to the MPA Speech Team on an incredible performance again repeating as the Section 4A champions! We\u2019re excited to celebrate our state qualifying entries (students placing third place or higher): Discussion: Finnley Henrikssen-Myers Dramatic Interpretation: Veronica Finc Duo Interpretation: Guy Schwieger and Nico Bergh Extemporaneous Speaking: Sidd Sastry, Andrew Buhr, and Josh Murr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":30085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28,29,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-school","category-current-families","category-homepage","category-middle-school","category-upper-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30084","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30089,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30084\/revisions\/30089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}