At my final tournament, some blasts from the past made my day! Yay, Daran, Sergio, Daniel, Mrs. Rainen, Bianca, and River!❤️❤️❤️

Final SMW tournament for me! Here are pics of some favorite people who have supported me and my squad over the years. It has been a joy ❤️

At Miege, James Holliday was the Impromptu CHAMPION!! He also placed 3rd in Poetry. Nathan Mestel medaled in International Extemp and Prose! Yay, Vikings!🔥

August Snyder and Andrew Coleman qualified for NSDA NATIONALS in Public Forum Debate!!🔥❤️

This guy is the US Extemp CHAMPION at the EKNSDA national qualifier!! Lachlan Smith is going to nationals!!!❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥🔥🔥

And (one of) the grand finale(s)of my career . . . Lachlan Smith was voted EKNSDA Student of the Year!! This guy . . . no words can say what he has meant to me and our speech and debate program (even though I did give a little speech). He’s going to change the world!❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️

Last day of debate and forensics for these senior sweethearts ❤️. (If you were there, you know what was said to merit the reactions 😂)

I love these three seniors to pieces ❤️. Last day with the whole group. It’s getting real.

Last day, last speech, last celebration with this incredibly brave, vulnerable, and kind group of speech students ❤️🔥🎤🥁

Leo, Caitlynn, Kloud!!! Congratulations!!! ❤️❤️❤️

Stowers and Adams! Thanks for everything. Abe and Octavius! You rock! ❤️ you all!

Wynter 🦄 Andrea 🔥 Mars 🥁. ❤️ you all!

I am so going to miss these kittens! Ella 🔥 Grayson 🎤

This guy!!! SO proud of Lachlan Smith after a flawless speech at graduation tonight!! 🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️ (And the other guy in the pic, we like him, too😃. Yay, Swafford for being a great coach and teacher!)

At the NCFL Grand National Tournament in Chicago, Caitlynn Palmer is in Octofinals of Oral Interpretation of Literature! Competition continues tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. 🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥

At the NCFL Grand National Tournament, Grayson Weber and Lachlan Smith broke in Policy Debate!! They will continue in the tournament tomorrow morning at 7:30. ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️

At NCFL Nationals in Chicago, Caitlynn Palmer proceeds to quarterfinals in Oral Interpretation!! 🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️

At NCFL Nationals in Chicago, Lachlan Smith and Grayson Weber are in quarterfinals of policy debate!

At the NCFL Grand National Tournament in Chicago, Grayson Weber and Lachlan Smith end their four-year Policy Debate career with a 5th place finish after dropping in quarterfinals. These two have made us Viking proud this weekend! 🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥

Caitlynn Palmer, in her first and only year of speech and debate, placed in the top 24 in the country in Oral Interpretation of Literature! We are Viking proud ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥