SCAPA at Bluegrass Notches State Title No. 29

Make it 29 years in a row and counting for SCAPA at Bluegrass, champion of the 2026 State Junior Speech Tournament sponsored by the Kentucky High School Speech League. Congratulations, too, to coach Katie Donohue, who was inducted into the league’s Hall of Fame. A former SCAPA student, she has guided the school’s speech team for 16 years!

State Results

• Broadcast Announcing - 1. Conrad Smith
• Declamation – 1. Madison Briggs
• Dramatic Interpretation – 3. Jonathan Owens
• Duo Acting – 1. Leah Gillispie and Katelyn Windhorn; 3. Emma Gillispie and Rory Harden
• Extemporaneous Speaking – 1. Noor Badin; 3. Emma Clark; 6. Mary Grace Collins
• Humorous Interpretation – 6. Jonathan Owens
• Impromptu – 1. Molly Kate Boling; 6. Emily Beck
• Improvisational Duo – 2. Leah Gillispie and Olive Spry; 4. Anne Blair Walter and Katelyn Windhorn
• Original Oratory – 4. Emma Clark
• Poetry – 2. Katelyn Windhorn; 3. Patton Barlow-Fiero
• Storytelling – 1. Reilly Dalton; 3. Madison Briggs

The speech league offers membership to all schools -- public, private, and home schools -- serving students in grades 4-12 in Kentucky. These contests train students how to conduct themselves in public settings, how to successfully communicate ideas, how to empathize with others via character analysis, how to read critically, and how to research properly. 

Boone County High School in Florence hosted this year's statewide competition Feb. 27-28.