Photo provided The Wheeling Park Speech and Debate team celebrates its 46th straight state championship, won Saturday in Morgantown.

Powered by 10 individual state championships, the Wheeling Park High School speech and debate team won its 46th consecutive state championship Saturday at West Virginia University in Morgantown.

The team has won the state championship every year since 1980.

Senior Will Medovic was named the tournament’s top overall speaker after winning a state title in informative speaking and state runner-up trophies in prose interpretation and duo interpretation with Claire McFadden.

Other winners are as follows:

Briele Dobson — 1st place Declamation; 1st place Oral Interpretation of Literature

Levi Powell — 1st place Programme Oral Interpretation; 2nd place Original Oratory

Anna Contraguerro — 1st place Prose Interpretation; 3rd place Informative Speaking

McKenna Guthoerl — 1st place Poetry Interpretation; 4th place Humorous/ Dramatic Interpretation

Jerome Maynard — 1st place Humorous/ Dramatic Interpretation

Jana Schodzinski — 1st place Impromptu Speaking; 2nd place Extemporaneous Speaking; 2nd place Congressional Debate

Lilly Smith — 1st place Duo Interpretation; 4th place Declamation

Ireland Witchey — 1st place Duo Interpretation

Isabella AlKhouri — 3rd place Prose Interpretation

Blair Anderson — 2nd place Declamation; 4th place Extemporaneous Speaking

Jules Burke — 4th place Public Forum Debate

Gabrielle Contraguerro — 3rd place Oral Interpretation of Literature; 2nd place Programme Oral Interpretation

Amiah Fuentes — 2nd place Poetry Interpretation

Josephine Gilbert — 3rd place Congressional Debate; 3rd place Public Forum Debate

Cash Givens — 6th place Humorous/Dramatic Interpretation; 3rd place Extemporaneous Speaking

Miriam Halicki — 5th place Lincoln-Douglas Debate

Paige Jones — 4th place Public Forum Debate

Audrey Kenamond — 4th place Duo Interpretation

Siyan Lopez — 5th place Humorous/ Dramatic Interpretation; 3rd place Poetry Interpretation


Claire McFadden — 2nd place Duo Interpretation

Gianna Mills — 4th place Broadcasting; 4th place Duo Interpretation

Flannery Muscar — 2nd place Oral Interpretation of Literature; 3rd place Humorous/ Dramatic Interpretation

Ava Norman — 6th place Impromptu Speaking; 2nd place Broadcasting

Khadija Rizwan — 4th place Original Oratory

Emma Seibert — 5th place Impromptu Speaking

Joeyana Strothers — 4th place Informative Speaking; 5th place Poetry Interpretation

Nathan Tyska — 4th place Lincoln-Douglas Debate

Ella Wheeler — 3rd place Public Forum Debate

Bridget Zoeckler — 6th place Congressional Debate

Liam Curtin — 6th place Spontaneous Debate

Other members contributing to the team’s win were Leah Cole, Clara Demasi, Maria Faulstick, Taylor Miller and Mojolaoluwa Oluwadare