Murphy Middle school Team has undefeated season
MURPHY MIDDLE SCHOOL’S SPEECH/THEATRE TEAM HAS UNDEFEATED SEASON.
On Saturday, May 10th, the Murphy Middle School Speech and Theatre team completed their 07-08 season by once again clinching the title of Plano City Champs. This year’s team also made history by going undefeated. Out of all 12 middle schools in Plano, the Murphy team won the first place sweepstakes at every contest. Over 100 students participated throughout the year on Murphy’s award winning team and over 130 trophies were garnered.
At the city champs tournament 45 entries made it to semi-finals and 23 made it to finals. The following won individual trophies:
In Lip Sync, The team of Tahirah Henderson, Caitlin Giorgio, Alyssa Van Hooser, Molly Mann, Hannah Martin and Jenna Tatman won 1st place and the team of– Krista Alba, Rachel Pierce, Katelyn Garrett and Claire Pauletti won 2nd place
In Poetry Interpretation, Yemi Adewuyi won 1st place, and Kent Van Dover won 3rd
In Pantomime to music, the team of Daniel McGuiness and Matt McBrayer won 1st place; and the team of Karan Mahendroo and Tucker Martin won 2nd place
In Duet Acting – the team ofJake Wikander and Sarah Pillars won 2nd place and the team of Tahirah Henderson and Alyssa Van Hooser won 3rd
In Prose Interpretation, - Hannah Martin won 1st place making it a perfect season for her in this event. She won 1st place in prose in every tournament. Way to go Hannah.
In Original Oratory, - Yemi Adewuyi won 2ndplace
In Current events - Yemi Adewuyi won 1st place and KC Nwora won 3rd.
In Television Commercials –The team of Taylor Timm, Dom Holt and Garrett Foster won 2nd place and also gained more members in their fan club
Storytelling – Tucker Martin won 1st place and Rania Blaik won 3rd
In Debate –William Allred and Sidharth Sharma won 3rd place




