AHS Debate and Forensics

G Guillen has advanced to the top 60 in poetry!! #abilene5starachools #traditionstartshere #nats2022 #nsda #speechanddebate

G Guillen, A Anguiano, and R Gale broke to rd 3 in original spoken word poetry and R Gale broke to rd 3 of prose! #abilene5starschools #traditionstartshere #nats2022 #speechanddebate #nsda

G Guillen finished competing in world schools today, everyone starts supplemental competition tomorrow... but first, rollercoasters! #abilene5starschools #nats2022 #speechanddebate #traditionstartshere

Day 1 of competition is over and was capped off by dinner at The Melting Pot! #Nats2022 #speechanddebate #abilene5starschools #traditionstartshere

In Louisville and ready to start competing this week! #Nats2022 #NSDA #abilene5starschools #traditionstartshere

Proud to announce our 4A State Forensics finalists. Mazo placed 4th in poetry, Mazo & Delay placed 4th in Duo Interpretation, and Delay placed 6th in poetry. Semifinalists were McCoy in impromptu and Guillen in Extemporaneous speaking. #abilene5starschools #traditionstartshere

Off to state forensics!! Thanks Frau for the cute sign (and cosmic brownies)!! #abilene5starschools #traditionstartshere

Seniors, M Mazo, D Delay, and R Gale all set a goal as freshmen that they wanted to reach 1500 points, premier distinction, in the National Speech and Debate Association! 4 years of hard work has paid off and they reached their goal! #traditionstartshere #abilene5starschools

Proud to announce that G Guillen has qualified to the national speech and debate tournament in World Schools Debate, marking her 3rd year qualifying! She also placed 6th in us extemp! Looking forward to the competition in Kentucky! #abilene5starschools #traditionstartshere

Forensics competed in our last regular tournament of the season where M Meneley placed 1st and M Mazo placed 5tg in poetry, both qualifying to state! R Gale placed 4th in extemp and 6th in impromptu. Congrats! #abilene5starschools #traditionstartshere

M Meneley directed a one act that performed tonight (and stepped in to perform when someone got sick). Great job by all! #abilene5starschools #traditionstartshere

Drama 2 performed their one act tonight in the AHS auditorium. So proud of these students hard work. #abilene5starschools #traditionstartshere

Tuesday night there will be 2 one act plays in the high school auditorium starting at 7 pm! Completely free admission. One is the drama 2 classes production of Alls Well That Ends Wrong and the other is a student directed/acted play. #abilene5starschools #traditionstartshere

We competed at Wamego tonight where the seniors all broke to finals! Delay and Mazo 1st in duet acting, qualifying to state,Delay 4th in poetry, qualifying to state, and Anguiano 5th in poetry. Last regular in person tournament for all 3. #traditionstartshere #abilene5starschools

Proud to announce G Guillen as our newest Academic All American! #traditionstartshere #abilene5starachools

Forensics competed at McPherson today where M Mazo placed 4th in poetry and D Delay and M Mazo placed 5th in Improvised Duet Acting. #traditionstartshere #abilene5starschools

Abilene forensics competed in the spartan 9 tournament and have 2 new state qualifiers!!! G McCoy placed 2nd in impromptu and S Randolph placed 3rd in prose, both earning their state entries! #abilene5starschools #traditionstartshere

We competed tonight & G Guillen placed 1st in extemp, qualifying to state! Geering & Randolph 3rd duet acting, Samsel 3rd in Oration, Guillen 4th in poetry, Randolph 4th in POI, Randolph 4th in prose, Pratt 6th & Samsel 7th in impromptu. #traditionstartshere #abilene5starschools

We have 4 new state qualifiers from the spartan 8 tournament! G McCoy and T Pratt 1st in IDA and T Geering and K Nordgren 2nd in IDA earming their qualifications. Also placing R Gale and S Randolph 3rd in IDA and M Meneley 6th in poetry. #traditionstartshere #abilene5starschools