By Amanda Maddux
Silverton High School’s speech and debate placed second at the OSAA State Speech
Championships in April, at Western Oregon University. Silverton came in just behind defending State Champions, Ashland High School, and beat out all the larger 6A schools. This is Silverton’s second year taking second place and fifth year in a row in the top five a state.
Results are as follows:
Gavin Knox and Ethan Elliott: State Champions in Dual Interp.
Gavin was also State Champion in Humorous Interp.
Truman Mallon and Aden Krueger: 2nd place in Dual Interp.
Truman was also a semi-finalist in After Dinner Speaking.
Riley Johnston and Austin Anderson: 4th place in Dual Interp.
Jasmine Kim: 3rd place in Expository and finalist in Oratory.
Haley Karlson: Finalist in Dramatic Interp.
Xander Harris: 3rd place in Student Congress.
Luke Yarnall: Quarter-Finalist in Lincoln-Douglas Debate and Semi-Finalist in Extemporaneous.
Elizabeth Leslie: Semi-Finalist in Prose Reading.
Silverton High School’s speech and debate team will be participating in the National Speech Competition. Only a select few will be going, they are:
Gavin Knox, Truman Mallon, Aden Krueger, Jasmine Kim and Ethan Elliott.
