NPHS Speech Team

05/12/2025

Thank you NPHS Speech Team for the past two years. It was an honor to be your coach. You are awesome, talented, and an amazing group of people. I will be taking this page down this week. Best of luck next year!

03/31/2025

03/28/2025

All that hard work paid off for these NPHS students at State Speech! Earning medals were Marisa Pfeifer, Tuesday Allen, Isabella Frazier, Xaivria Lemmer, Finnley Eickhoff 4th in OID. Finnley Eickhoff and Isabella Frazier 6th in Duet Acting. Isabella Winter and Rebecca Keneipp received medals in Unified Duet Acting.

03/18/2025

State Speech send-off this morning! We compete in Kearney on March 26th. Go Dawgs!

03/17/2025

Congratulations to our team who earned District A-4 Speech Runner-ups! Students placing in the top four in their events also earned a trip to State Speech, which will be in Kearney on March 26th. District medalists and State qualifiers are as follows:
Tyson Pierce 3rd Poetry
Sawyer Magnuson 4th Extemp
Xaivria Lemmer 4th POI
Derek Ebmeier 4th Entertainment
Tuesday Allen and Braxtton Songster 4th Duo
Finnley Eickhoff and Isabella Frazier 3rd Duo
Finnley Eickhoff, Isabella Frazier, Marisa Pfeifer, Tuesday Allen, Xaivria Lemmer 2nd OID
Rebecca Keneipp, Reegan Nickerson, Ezri Bay 4th OID
Medals were also earned by these students:
Braxtton Songster 5th Serious Prose
Katelynn McNeel 6th Serious Prose
Rebecca Keneipp 6th Informative
Reegan Nickerson 5th Poetry
Makenna Blanton 6th Extemp
Zoey Husemoller 5th POI
Paige Zogg also competed in Informative Speaking.

03/02/2025

It is the best way to end the regular speech season: NPHS Speech Team earned the Class A/B Champion plaque at the Gering Best of the West Speech Tournament today!
Students earning medals are as follows:
1st Duet Acting Champs: Isabella Frazier & Finnley Eickhoff
3rd Duet Acting Champs: Tuesday Allen & Braxtton Songster
4th Humorous Prose Champs: Finnley Eickhoff
3rd OID Champs: Tuesday Allen, Finnley Eickhoff, Isabella Frazier, Xaivria Lemmer, & Marisa Pfeifer
4th OID Honors: Ezri Bay, Rebecca Keneipp, & Reegan Nickerson
1st Persuasive Honors: Isabella Frazier
5th Serious Prose Champs: Braxtton Songster
1st Serious Prose Honors: Katelynn McNeel
3rd Poetry Champs: Tyson Pierce
5th Poetry Honors: Reegan Nickerson
1st POI Honors: Xaivria Lemmer
3rd POI Honors: Zoey Husemoller

DISTRICTS is March 15th in Lincoln.

02/19/2025

NPHS Speech team took a moment to celebrate after hosting 32 schools at the annual Blue and Gold Speech Meet. The team placed 4th overall. Individual medal winners are as follows:
Novice Champs
Conrad Keup 2nd in Extemp
Zoey Husemoller 4th in POI
Addy Lewis-Griss 6th in Poetry
Novice Honors
Paige Zogg 4th in Informative

Varsity Champs
Tuesday Allen, Finnley Eickhoff, Isabella Frazier, Marisa Pfeifer, and Xaivria Lemmer 3rd OID
Isabella Frazier & Finnley Eickhoff 4th Duet
Sawyer Magnuson 5th Extemp
Derek Ebmeier 5th Serious Prose
Varsity Honors
Tuesday Allen & Braxtton Songster 1st Duet
Finnley Eickhoff 2nd Humorous Prose
Tyson Pierce 2nd Poetry
Braxtton Songster 6th Serious Prose

Coach Boyer & Coach Lewis are very proud of our team. They performed well after putting in hours of work helping set up the day before. Thank you to Key Club students who volunteered to work concessions! Thank you to our administration, faculty, custodians, and parents for your help and support! Finally, thank you to all the coaches, judges, and competitors who participated and helped to make the day a success, despite a rough start due to weather and major changes in scheduling. We appreciate all of you.

02/08/2025

Another successful day for the speech team members competing at Lincoln N. Star:
Tuesday Allen, Finnley Eickhoff, Isabella Frazier, Xaivria Lemmer, and Katelynn McNeel -- 3rd OID Finals.
Sawyer Magnuson -- 3rd Impromptu Finals and 5th Extemporaneous Next-in Finals.
The team will be competing at their home Blue & Gold Tournament on February 15th.

02/04/2025

NPHS Speech had another successful day at CNFL #2 on February 1st. Students earning medals are as follows:
Novice Program Oral Interp: Zoey Husemoller, 2nd
Novice Serious Prose: Katelynn McNeel, 3rd
Varsity Duet Acting:
Finnley Eickhoff and Isabella Frazier, 2nd
Braxtton Songster and Tuesday Allen, 7th
Varsity Serious Prose:
Braxtton Songster 7th
Varsity Humorous Prose:
Finnley Eickhoff 8th
Varsity Extemporaneous Speaking:
Sawyer Magnuson 10th
Varsity Entertainment:
Derek Ebmeier 12th
Varsity Persuasive:
Isabella Frazier 14th

02/04/2025

January 25th Lincoln SW medal winners:
Tuesday Allen, Finnley Eickhoff, Isabella Frazier, Xaivria Lemmer, Marisa Pfeifer 4th in OID Finals.
Isabella Frazier and Finnley Eickhoff 6th in Duo Interp. Finals
Other team members earning medals were
Tuesday Allen and Braxtton Songster in Duo Interp.
Finnley Eickhoff in Humorous Prose.
Isabella Frazier in Persuasive Speaking.
Sawyer Magnuson in Impromptu Speaking.

01/20/2025

The NPHS Speech Team competed at CNFL Saturday. Medals were given to the top twelve places in the novice division and the top fifteen places in the varsity division. Team members bringing home hardware were the following students:
Novice:
Katelynn McNeel 1st Serious Prose
Conrad Keup 4th Extemporaneous Speaking
Varsity:
Tuesday Allen & Braxtton Songster 2nd Duet Acting
Finnley Eickhoff 5th Humorous Prose
Isabella Frazier & Finnley Eickhoff 6th Duet Acting
Tuesday Allen, Finnley Eickhoff, Isabella Frazier, Xaivria Lemmer, & Marisa Pfeifer 6th OID
Isabella Frazier 9th Persuasive Speaking
Xaivria Lemmer 13th POI
Tyson Pierce 14th Poetry
Kaylee Lundgreen 14th Extemporaneous Speaking