The Pirate OID team of Brendan Weber, Claire Rasmussen, Paige Norris, Lauren Jelinek and JayJay Gaver performed their OID for a large crowd, and more than 100 attended the speech open house Tuesday evening to hear performances from the entire team.

The Plainview Pirate speech team hosted an open house on Tuesday, March 15 in preparation for the State Invite to be held this weekend, March 17 at Kearney High School in Kearney.

The one-day C2 competition begins at 7:30 a.m. with extemporaneous draws and first round of competition at 8:30 a.m. Finals will be held at 3:30 p.m., and results will be announced following.
Those competing for the Pirates will be:
Brittani Gutz in informative speaking, 
Reagan Choat in extemporaneous speaking, 
Leighton Medina in humorous prose, 
Emma King in persuasive speaking. 
Heather Pendergast in persuasive speaking 
Lauren Jelinek in informative speaking.  
Brett Norris in entertainment speaking, 
Marque Albin in poetry
OID team of Brett Norris, Brittani Gutz, Leighton Medina, Heather Pendergast, and Derek Rix.  
Room assignments for the day can be found on NSAAhome.org under the State Speech championships page.