2021-2022 Lansing Speech & Debate Team Recognized as Leading Chapter Award Winners!
Congratulations to the 2021-2022 Lansing High School Speech and Debate Team and teacher/coach Larissa Maranell for being recognized as a Leading Chapter Award Winner. This is the highest recognition a speech and debate charter school can earn.
DES MOINES, IOWA (October 4, 2022) — The National Speech & Debate Association is proud to award one chapter from each competition district with this year’s Leading Chapter Awards. Only approximately 3% of schools are recognized as Leading Chapter Award winners.
“This award, which is based on student participation, represents a tremendous dedication to speech and debate education,” said Executive Director J. Scott Wunn. “Our Leading Chapter schools understand the importance of speech and debate, and the life changing benefits of the activity. We are proud to recognize these hard-working schools with this coveted honor.”
Each year the top chapter in accumulated members and degrees, not more than one per district, receives the Leading Chapter Award; then its accumulated total returns to zero and it begins a new record. Each school must wait at least five years before being eligible for the award again.
Leading Chapter schools are recognized based on student participation throughout the school year. Schools earning the Leading Chapter Award must have previously achieved Charter School Status in the National Speech & Debate Association. These speech and debate programs serve as an inspiration for new speech and debate teams around the United States.
“Speech and debate advances communication skills, develops interpersonal skills, improves reading, writing, speaking, and critical thinking, and prepares students for college, careers, and beyond,” said Wunn. “Nowhere is this more evident than our Leading Chapter schools.”
The 2021-22 Leading Chapter Award winners:
- The Montgomery Academy – Mockingbird
- Har-Ber High School – Arkansas
- BASIS Peoria – Arizona
- Bear Creek High School – Big Valley (CA)
- The Harker School – Calif. Coast (CA)
- John F. Kennedy High School – Capitol Valley (CA)
- Alhambra High School – East Los Angeles (CA)
- Dougherty Valley High School – San Fran Bay (CA)
- Orosi High School – Sierra (CA)
- Redlands High School – Southern California
- Loyola High School – West Los Angeles (CA)
- Cherry Creek High School – Colorado
- Resurrection Christian School – Rocky Mountain-North (CO)
- Regis Jesuit High School – Rocky Mountain-South (CO)
- TCA – Colorado Grande
- Delta High School – Western Slope (CO)
- West Broward High School – Florida Manatee
- Wellington Community High School – Florida Oceanfront
- Paul J Hagerty High School – Florida Panther
- Newsome High School – Florida Sunshine
- Ransom Everglades School – Florida Flamingo
- Midtown High School – Georgia Northern Mountain
- Fayette County High School – Georgia Southern Peach
- Mount Carmel School – Pacific Islands
- Parker School – Hawaii
- Wood River High School – Idaho Gem of the Mountain
- Bonneville High School – Idaho Mountain River
- University High School – Greater Illinois
- Naperville Central High School – Illinois(IL)
- Prospect High School – Northern Illinois
- McCutcheon High School – Hoosier Heartland (IN)
- Fishers High School – Hoosier Crossroads (IN)
- Bethany Christian High School – Northeast Indiana
- Munster High School – Northwest Indiana
- Grinnell High School – East Iowa
- CAM High School – West Iowa
- Lansing High School – East Kansas
- Topeka High School – Kansas Flint-Hills
- Wichita Collegiate Upper School – Sunflower (KS)
- Chanute High School – South Kansas
- Louisburg High School – Three Trails (KS)
- Moundridge High School – West Kansas
- Larry A Ryle High School – Kentucky
- John Paul The Great Academy – Louisiana
- Dirigo High School – Maine
- Portage Public School – Michigan
- Jackson-Reed High School – Chesapeake (MD)
- Stillwater Area High School – Central Minnesota
- St Michael Albertville High School – Northern Lights (MN)
- Eagan High School – Southern Minnesota
- St Andrew’s Episcopal School – Magnolia (MS)
- Carthage High School – Carver-Truman (MO)
- Columbia-Hickman High School – Eastern Missouri
- Liberty Sr High School – Heart Of America (MO)
- Parkview High School – Ozark (MO)
- Lee’s Summit North – Show Me (MO)
- Great Falls High School – Montana East
- Glacier High School – Montana West
- Westside High School – Nebraska
- Lincoln Southeast High School – Nebraska South
- Ed W. Clark High School – Golden Desert (NV)
- Sage Ridge School – Sagebrush (NV)
- Lexington High School – New England (MA & NH)
- Millburn High School – New Jersey
- Eldorado High School – New Mexico
- Mount Mercy Academy – Iroquois (NY)
- Stuyvesant High School – New York City
- Durham Academy – Carolina East (NC)
- The Bronx High School Of Science – Hudson Valley (NY)
- Charlotte Catholic High School – Carolina West (NC)
- Fargo North High School – North Dakota Roughrider
- Stow-Munroe Falls High School – Eastern Ohio
- Hawken School – North Coast (OH)
- South Range High School – Northern Ohio
- Perrysburg High School – Western Ohio
- Owasso High School – East Oklahoma
- Norman North High School – West Oklahoma
- Lincoln High School – North Oregon
- South Medford High School – South Oregon
- Greater Latrobe High School – Pennsylvania
- Oakland Catholic High School – Pittsburgh (PA)
- Holy Ghost Prep – Valley Forge (PA)
- Riverside High School – South Carolina
- Watertown High School – Northern South Dakota
- Stevens High School – Rushmore (SD)
- Jefferson County High School – Tennessee
- Claudia Taylor Johnson High School – Central Texas
- Northland Christian School – East Texas
- W B Ray High School – Gulf Coast (TX)
- Westlake High School – Heart Of Texas
- Wylie Sr High School – LBJ (TX)
- Plano Sr High School – Lone Star (TX)
- Clark High School – North Texas Longhorns
- Elkins High School – South Texas
- Cy-Fair High School – Space City (TX)
- Midland Legacy High School – Tall Cotton (TX)
- Lindale High School – UIL (TX)
- Franklin High School – West Texas
- Caney Creek High School – Yellow Rose (TX)
- Skyline High School – Great Salt Lake (UT)
- Stansbury High School – Sundance (UT)
- Logan High School – Utah-Wasatch
- Dominion High School – Virginia
- Wenatchee High School – Inland Empire (WA)
- The Bear Creek School – Puget Sound (WA)
- Wheeling Park High School – West Virginia
- Auburn Riverside High School – Western Washington
- James Madison Memorial High School – Northern Wisconsin
- West Bend East High School – Southern Wisconsin
- Buffalo High School – Hole In The Wall (WY)
- Rock Springs High School – Wind River (WY)
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The National Speech & Debate Association is the authority on public speaking and debate in the United States. The Association builds the infrastructure for speech and debate competitions around the world by providing topics, educational resources, and training for students and coaches. For nearly 100 years, the National Speech & Debate Association has built a platform for youth voices that culminates in the National Tournament, the largest academic competition in the world. For more information, visit www.speechanddebate.org.