Bixby High School Speech & Debate

03/10/2023

Congratulations to drama students, Ellie Blankenship and Shay Pool, on being named January/February students of the month!

01/22/2023

“The TROUPE” competed in the highly competitive Norman North Speech and Debate tournament this weekend. We placed third in the championship division and qualified 6 more students for the upcoming regional contest. Congratulations to Natalie Lane, Kyle Steward, Jaydin Bright, Abigayle Dorsey, Quinton Lowry, and Kacie Moore for qualifying. And congratulations to Liliana Branson, Liberty Johnson, Reagan King and Macie Dunham for their wins in the championship category. Special shout out to Liberty Johnson for also winning the Top Speaker award in her debate category as well.

12/11/2022

Bixby High School’s “the TROUPE” is bringing home some hardware after our second speech and debate tournament of the season. We qualified 11 more students for the regional contest in March! Congratulations to the students below!

Anna Founds - 1st Place Standard Oratory
Benjamin Nash - 2nd Place Humorous Interp
Elliot Blankenship - 3rd Place Humorous Interp
Savanah Roth - 1st Place Dramatic Interp
Lynn Dickinson - 2nd Place Poetry
Olivia Greenfield - 2nd Place Prose
Addison Smith/Andy Husen - 3rd Place Humorous Duet
Reagan King/Macie Dunham -1st Place Dramatic Duet
Liberty Johnson - 2nd Place Lincoln Douglas Debate
Zi Eylar - 2nd Place Monologue

Special congratulations to Mason Brooks and Johnathon Krueger for placing 3rd in the championship division of Public Forum Debate.

Thank you to Allison Bush and Matthew Gilman for chaperoning and judging for us. And thank you to Jennie Goodell for being an excellent driver for us!

11/12/2022

BIxby High School’s “the TROUPE” kicked off the competitive speech season by sending a small group to compete at the Broken Arrow invitational today. We crowned two champions and had six students qualify for regionals later this year. This is the first step on the road to state for these talented performers. Special shout out to the middle school team for their third place finish in the Novice Division. Go Spartans!

10/11/2022

06/12/2022

Registration Day of the National Speech and Debate Association's National Tournament 2022! We have Lilli in Congressional Debate and Savannah in Dramatic Interp representing Bixby this year. Today they got their free swag and then went to the Louisville Slugger Museum, and tomorrow we're seeing Louisville Shakespeare in the Park in a production of Shakespeare's 12th Night. Then we're all about competition tomorrow!

04/28/2022

02/06/2022

I cannot say enough about how important it is that ALL Bond issues pass in Bixby on Tuesday.

The School Bond – Our high school should be the best, and right now it is suffering from lack of renovations as the district has had other needs as we grow. We have outgrown our space, and going into the high school from other buildings in the district right now really is like going back in time. The district is not going to stop growing. We need a new high school. And the benefits for the theatre, speech, and debate programs will be incredible. From what is planned we will have a new larger space for classroom activities and research ability and updated and larger rehearsal and storage spaces which means the program will have options for performance that we’ve never had before. (Plus, this DOES NOT INCREASE TAXES – just keeps the rate the same from the last passed bond.)

The Transportation Bond – Legally this has to be a different bond from the school bond, but it’s needed just as much. Busses are important!

The City Bond - The City of Bixby and Bixby Public Schools are partnering to build a $43M state-of-the-art Performing Arts Center (PAC). The Bixby PAC will seat 1200-1500 people and accommodate all of Bixby's rapidly growing performing arts programs: Choir, Band, Drama, and more. This venue will be a local destination for national and international acts to perform right in our own backyard. Students will be able to work and perform in a state of the art professional facility, and will be able to work WITH professional techs and actors as the facility brings in shows. I’ve personally talked to the architects about what we need in this space as a performance space, and they’ve included everything we could need to expose students to the possibilities of creating live, professional performances.

I know that people are concerned about the tax increase. I’ll be clear, what we’re talking about is 12 cents a day, or $44 per 100k of property. I know that can be challenging, but it doesn’t seem like a lot to me for all the opportunities this will give our students and the Bixby community.

Please vote YES on Tuesday.