North Lamar High School Speech and Debate Team won the District Speech and Debate Championship for the 13th year in a row on Tuesday.
Winning or placing were: Hunter Steelman – first in Informative Speaking; Heather Bright – sixth in Informative Speaking; Isabella LoCicero – first in Persuasive Speaking and second in Poetry; Jaden Brown – fifth in Persuasive Speaking and fifth in Poetry; Hannah Miner – first in Prose; and Felicity Sefcik – fourth in Lincoln Douglas Debate.
In February, Isabella LoCicero and Hunter Steelman placed first in Cross-Examination Debate.
North Lamar claims the District Championship title for all but two of the last 25 year. Kristi Hodgkiss is the Speech and Debate coach for North Lamar.