Mitchell duo earns superior rating at 2022 South Dakota State Oral Interpretation Festival

Dec. 6—MITCHELL — Mitchell High School

hosted the 2022 State Oral Interpretation Festival this Friday, Dec. 2 and Saturday, Dec. 3.

For Mitchell High School, Logan Culhane and Rian Douvier received a superior rating for their duet performance.

Following are the superior award recipients from area schools that took part in the festival.

Asterisks represent a superior with distinction rating.

Reader's Theatre

Green Ta Bah, Antony Sorto, Samantha Swanson, Tessa Gogolin, Lily Halter, Cameron Cutshaw — Huron

Humorous Reading

Tessa Gogolin — Huron

Duet Interpretation

Logan Culhane, Rian Douvier — Mitchell

Storytelling

Presley Slaba — Wagner

Addison Heenan — Winner

Duet Interpretation

Amanda Edwards, Addison Heenan — Winner

Non-Original Oratory

Shadia Dakam — Chamberlain

Humorous Reading

Jackson Rolston — Wagner

Team Excellence Awards

Winner — Misti Lapsley, coach

Wagner — Mieke Slaba, coach

Reader's Theatre

Jaden Graber, Ravyn Oliver, Ashtyn Waldner, Eli Barreto, Kaydence Klein, Cruz Klundt — Gregory

Humorous Reading

Eli Barreto — Gregory

Ashley Tolsma — Avon

Leah Aderhold — Castlewood

Lexie Hogeland — Menno

Kate Swier — Avon

Anna Mellegaard — Ethan

Duet Interpretation

Sarah Swier, Kate Swier — Avon

Claire Mellegaard, Anna Mellegaard — Ethan

Poetry Reading

Danielle Timanus — Gregory

Devon Ashley — Kimball

Tessa DeWitt — Bridgewater-Emery

Non-Original Oratory

Claire Mellegaard — Ethan

Bridget Thomas — Kimball

Thor Aanenson — Freeman

*Bailey Feistner — Woonsocket

Serious Reading

Sarah Swier — Avon

Brenen Brandenburg — Canistota

*Jessica Paschal — Freeman Academy

Team Excellence Awards

Avon — Sara Hento, coach

Ethan — Karen Freeman, coach

Kimball — Patti Konechne, coach

Gregory — Ronda Graber, coach