(KLZA)-- The Nebraska State Speech Competition will be held this week at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.  

Contestants in Classes A, B and C-1 compete on Wednesday and those in classes C2, D1 and D2 compete on Thursday. 

Three area teams brought home District Championships this year, Falls City Sacred Heart in Class D1,  Auburn is Class B and HTRS in Class C2.  

State qualifiers from area schools include:  

In Class B for Auburn:

HUMUROUS INTERPRETATION OF PROSE LITERATURE - Ian Nole and Morgan Kroll.

SERIOUS INTERPRETATION OF PROSE LITERATURE - Mikaela Miller.

EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING - Abigail Thomas and Yusuf Khan.

ORAL INTERPRETATION OF POETRY - Emma Powell.

PERSUASIVE SPEAKING - Abigail Thomas.

ENTERTAINMENT SPEAKING - Casey Frerichs. 

INFORMATIVE PUBLIC SPEAKING - Brenna Schulte. 

ORAL INTERPRETATION OF DRAMA - Noah Isaacs, Kaelyn Noel, Emma Powell, Ian Noel, Zachary Steele . Also qualifying were:

Brenna Schulte, Megan Wright, Casey Frerichs, Cameron Victor – Auburn

DUET ACTING - Zachary Steele and Noah Isaacs, along with Mikaela Miller, Cameron Victor. 

Class C2 Qualfifiers include:

HUMUROUS INTERPRETATION OF PROSE LITERATURE - Chloe Workman and Kaleb Knudson – HTRS.

SERIOUS INTERPRETATION OF PROSE LITERATURE - Chloe Workman – HTRS,  Eve Beethe – Pawnee City and Lauren Patzel – HTRS.

EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING - Trenton Plager – HTRS and Callie O’Donnell – Pawnee City.

ORAL INTERPRETATION OF POETRY - Kendall Werts – HTRS, 

Chase Merwin – HTRS, and Joslyn Sharpe – Pawnee City.

PERSUASIVE SPEAKING - Tanner Merwin – HTRS and Abby Mathewson – Pawnee City.

ENTERTAINMENT SPEAKING - John Kanel and Kendall Werts both form HTRS. 

INFORMATIVE PUBLIC SPEAKING - Emily Gonnella and Camille Svoboda – HTRS.

ORAL INTERPRETATION OF DRAMA - Steven Bruns, Kellen Habegger, Abby Mathewson and Macey Gyhra – Pawnee City.

DUET ACTING - Julia Schultheiss and Ann Cline – Pawnee City.

John Kanel and Kaleb Knudson – HTRS.

Class D1 State Qualifiers include:

HUMUROUS INTERPRETATION OF PROSE LITERATURE - Emily Oestmann – Johnson-Brock and Bryant Jorn – Falls City Sacred Heart.

SERIOUS INTERPRETATION OF PROSE LITERATURE - Nora Barker – Falls City Sacred Heart.

EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING - Bob Hermesch – Falls City Sacred Heart.

ORAL INTERPRETATION OF POETRY - Libby Dunn – Falls City Sacred Heart.

PERSUASIVE SPEAKING - Sara Wertenberger – Falls City Sacred Heart.

ENTERTAINMENT SPEAKING - Maddie Huppert – Falls City Sacred Heart.

INFORMATIVE PUBLIC SPEAKING - Nate Finck and Libby Dunn from Falls City Sacred Heart.

ORAL INTERPRETATION OF DRAMA - Benjamin Grable, Brynn Westenburg, David Carr, Emerson Carbajal, Joshua Andersen – Johnson-Brock.

DUET ACTING - Benjamin Grable and, Brynn Westenburg – Johnson-Brock.  Austin Ahern and Teresa Morehead – Falls City Sacred Heart and 

Ryker Hoy andTanner Cromer – Falls City Sacred Heart.