{"id":30117,"date":"2026-04-27T14:22:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=30117"},"modified":"2026-04-29T14:12:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:12:01","slug":"mpa-speech-team-places-second-at-state-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2026\/04\/27\/mpa-speech-team-places-second-at-state-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"MPA Speech Team Places Second At State Meet!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30119 alignright img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/speechwp-1.png\" alt=\"The 2025-26 MPA speech team\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/>Congratulations to the MPA speech team on a successful showing at the MSHSL Class A state tournament, earning a second-place team finish behind a series of top individual performances during the meet at Park Center High School.<\/p>\n<p>Ash Klann &#8217;26 (Original Oratory), Guy Schwieger &#8217;26 and Nico Bergh &#8217;27 (Duo Interpretation), and Warner Reid &#8217;26 (Serious Interpretation of Poetry) each finished on top in their respective fields, all claiming state championships.<\/p>\n<p>Not far behind were Sidd Sastry &#8217;27 in Extemporaneous Speaking, Mina Kim &#8217;26 in Great Speeches, and Oslo Norcross &#8217;27 in Informative Speaking, all securing runner-up placements.<\/p>\n<p>Additional top-five finishes included Andrew Buhr &#8217;28, who placed fifth in Extemporaneous Speaking, Kelvyn Boddipalli &#8217;26, who took fourth in Humorous Interpretation, and Andrea Pugh &#8217;26, who finished fourth in Serious Interpretation of Prose.<\/p>\n<p>We are so proud of how MPA wrapped up the MSHSL season at state, earning individual championships and a second-place finish as a team. Way to go, Panthers\u2014you earned this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the MPA speech team on a successful showing at the MSHSL Class A state tournament, earning a second-place team finish behind a series of top individual performances during the meet at Park Center High School. Ash Klann &#8217;26 (Original Oratory), Guy Schwieger &#8217;26 and Nico Bergh &#8217;27 (Duo Interpretation), and Warner Reid &#8217;26 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":30118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28,29,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-school","category-current-families","category-homepage","category-upper-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30117","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=30117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30122,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30117\/revisions\/30122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}