Parkview High Speech & Debate

Congress districts were an extra special night! Not only did we add qualifiers, but we were able to honor Dr. Gillespie as the 2026 Ozark District Administrator of the Year! We couldn't be grateful for support and encouragement!!

What a day for the Parkview Debate team! We competed for almost 11 hours at the district Congress tournament and added 2 more national qualifiers in the House of Representatives!! Alec Rosa and Nicole Castillejos will be joining Lily in Richmond, VA this June!! Now to get ready for state in 2 weeks!!

It took parts of 4 days, but for the first time in a long time, we have a national qualifier in March! Lily Brozovich finished 2nd in Big Questions Debate qualifying to the national tournament in Richmond, VA this June!! Now to rest up over spring break and then get ready to host our district qualifier in Congress where we'll look to add more qualifiers.

We have state qualifiers!!!! Parkview survived the storms and delays and qualified 3 students with 6 entries to the state tournament!

Nicole Castillejos TRIPLE qualified finishing 3rd in Humorous Interpretation, 6th in United States Extemporaneous Speaking, and 8th in Storytelling

Alec Rosa DOUBLED qualified placing 5th in both Radio Speaking and Informative Speaking

Jasmine Dooley placed 4th in Radio Speaking qualifying to the state as a FRESHMAN

Taraji Porter Semifinalist in Original Oratory and United States Extemporaneous Speaking

Lily Brozovich Semifinalist in Poetry Reading and United States Extemporaneous Speaking

Not time to rest! Our national qualifier starts on Thursday at Central!!

It's that time! MSHSAA districts start today. We'll find out if we have qualifiers tomorrow!

We'd love to have you come judge at our national qualifier at Central High School! Link in the comments to the form!

We'd love to have you come judge at our state qualifier at Carthage High School this Friday and Saturday! Link in the comments for the form!

We had a great time at our last invitational of the season in Mt. Vernon! The team placed 4th overall in sweepstakes with the following students placing:

Lily Brozovich 1st Place United States Extemporaneous Speaking & 4th Place Poetry Reading
Nicole Castillejos 1st Place Storytelling
Taraji Porter 2nd Place United States Extemporaneous Speaking
Jasmine Dooley 3rd Place Radio Speaking
Alec Rosa 5th Place Radio Speaking and Informative Speaking
Toby Tucker 6th Place International Extemporaneous Speaking & 7th Place Poetry Reading

We have districts the next 2 weeks! If you're interested in judging, check back this weekend for signups!

What a day at the Osage Speech Tournament!? We finished 5th in overall sweeps. Always a good time travelling with our pals from Hillcrest!

Lily Brozovich 1st Place Extemporaneous Speaking & 3rd Place Poetry Reading
Nicole Castilliejos 4th Place Extemporaneous Speaking & 5th Place Humourous Interpretation
Jasmine Dooley 5th Place Radio Speaking

This past weekend we traveled to Reeds Spring for their first ever 2 day tournament! We were a small but mighty bunch!

Jasmine Dooley 4th Place in Lincoln-Douglas Debate and Original Oratory
Asher Wright 6th Place United States Extemporaneous Speaking

Special congratulations to Jasmine! She's a novice and this was an open tournament. Such a great accomplishment!!

We had a great time at Ft. Osage this weekend! Lots of success and positive results to build on, especially with only varsity IEs. Big thanks to our pals at Hillcrest for traveling with us!!

Jasmine Dooley 1st Place Novice Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Jeffrey Carlson and Autumn Deatherage 3rd Place Varsity Policy Debate
Asher Wright and Lily Brozovich 4th Place Varsity Policy Debate
Anola Stejskal and Liam Hoagland 4th Place Novice Policy Debate
Lily Brozovich International Extemporaneous Speaking Semifinalist

A quick break next weekend and then we head to Lebanon!!