2025 Showcase Program

PACT SPEECH’S NINTH ANNUAL

speech

showcase SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 2025 GRADES 6-8 AT 2 PM | GRADES 9-12 AT 4 PM

for coming to our Showcase!

The 2025 season has been a historic one for us, as our team is the largest it has ever been. We very much appreciate your presence and your patience as we strive to celebrate all of our team members and their hard work!

Our team theme this year was G.O.L.D., representing four tenets we strive to be: Grateful, optimistic, limitless, and determined. The students performing for you today have been living up to this acronym all season. They have been working on their pieces since late November/early December 2024, and since January, they have gotten up early on Saturdays to travel to different schools and compete in a minimum of three rounds, sometimes four. Our team has worked incredibly hard, and we hope you enjoy their performances!

Please show our speakers courtesy by minimizing movement in the room during their performances and refraining from flash photography. Each piece is between 7-10 minutes in length. If you'd like to move to a different room, please wait for one of the captains to open the door between performances to do so. Breaks are provided to keep all rooms on schedule.

Additionally, please enjoy your desserts outside of the speaking rooms.

Thank you and enjoy!

PACT Speech is proud to have had seventh and eighth graders compete on the varsity team since the beginning. This year, for the second year ever, we offered a middle school program to give our younger grades a low-stakes introduction to speech.

Not pictured with varsity but deserving just as much kudos are Mia Wade, Sam Wood, Edith Wick, Dominic Pace, and Levi Hendren.

Sam Wood | ‘29 | Storytelling Dominic Pace | ‘30 | Creative Expression Edith Wick | ‘31 | Humorous Owen Davis | ‘30 | Creative Expression Amalya McKie | ‘29 | Serious Prose

Sloane Wacha | ‘29 | Creative Expression Delaney Schmid | ‘29 | Prose Bryleigh Akkerman | ‘29 | Drama Mercia Nkelenda | ‘29 | Informative Evelyn Peters | ‘28 | Humorous Bryleigh Akkerman & Delaney Schmid | ‘29 | Duo

Performances starting at 4 PM Josiah Fiksen | ‘25 | Prose* Norah Krafty ‘28 & Miranda MacKinnon ‘28 | Duo Norah Krafty | ‘28 | Extemporaneous Reading Stephen Rajotte | ‘27 | Informative - Intermission until 5:15 Delilah Kusler ‘26 & Kylee Fiksen ‘26 | Duo** Hope Jacobson | ‘28 | Prose Fritz Larsen | ‘28 | Extemporaneous Speaking Brady Andersen | ‘26 | Informative - Intermission until 6:30 Daisy Richards | ‘26 | Creative Expression Miranda MacKinnon | ‘28 | Exemporaneous Reading Kilee Borchers | ‘25 | Drama* ** *senior | **leader/captain

Performances starting at 4 PM Gracen Schmid | ‘26 | Drama** Dawson Baumler | ‘26 | Informative Azaria Zenkic | ‘28 | Storytelling Teddy Roufs ‘27 & Kadrian Rudrud ‘28 | Discussion - Intermission until 5:15 Maddy Aune | ‘28 | Extemporaneous Speaking Owen Baumler | ‘27 | Informative Levi Wood | ‘26 | Storytelling Dylan Oolman ‘27 & Jonny Flaten ‘27 | Duo - Intermission until 6:30 Join us in the Media Center or Auditorium for the remaining performances!

*senior | **leader/captain

Performances starting at 5:15 PM

- Intermission until 5:15 Abby Thomas | ‘25 | Extemporaneous Reading* ** Olivia Page | ‘27 | Prose Aidan Struve ‘26 & Levi Wolf ‘26 | Duo Morgan Whitby | ‘26 | Drama** - Intermission until 6:30 Levi Wood | ‘26 | Great Speeches Trevin Crew | ‘25 | Storytelling* Abby Thomas ‘25 & Olivia Page ‘27 | Duo* **

*senior | **leader/captain

Our season wouldn’t be possible without OUR JUDGES: Jordan DeRosa, Alexis Bialon, Kendra DeRosa, Megan Pangier, Fenani Ahmed, Sara Whitby, Mellissa McKie, Meghan MacKinnon, Abby Flaten, Rachel Munio, Beth Halvorson, Barb Ruppert, Kathy Tyler, Anita Douglas, Garth Andersen OUR IN-BUILDING SUPPORT: Dr. Shawn Lohse | Secondary Principal Jennifer Hamernick | Assistant Director of Secondary Education Joel Hedberg | Interim Activities Director & Transportation Coordinator Deb Whitby | Business Account Specialist Toessawat Suparat | Technology Coordinator Christine Ernston | Director of Communication & Community Engagement The Panthers Booster Club OUR CUSTODIAL STAFF: Frank Infelise, Michael McGinnigan, Scott Pacey And all of the family & friends who supported us throughout the season!

Friday, April 4 | Section 4A Tournament at St. Croix Lutheran Academy Friday, April 25 | Class A State Tournament at Shakopee High School

Our utmost gratitude to the parents and families who have volunteered time, energy, and food tonight and for meets & practices throughout the season! This season would not happen without your support, generosity, and encouragement.