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St. Monica Forensics Team Wins State Competition

Middle school team took home team trophy, an individual trophy and Coach of the Year.

Amidst all the basketball games and March madness, another local team took home a state championship trophy last weekend - the forensics team at St. Monica School.

About 1,400 middle school students from 80 schools around the state participated in the MLFA state forensics tournament at Oconomowoc High School Saturday.

St. Monica's took home the first place team trophy, coach Anne Rice was recognized as Coach of the Year for her 10 years of intermittent volunteer service and her daughter Rachel Rice won a first place trophy in the prose category with two perfect 42 scores and first place ranking in each of her rounds.

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Other notable student achievements include Sarah Herbers medaling in the power round in the poetry category and Stefan Schallack's perfect score in the first round of the non-original oratory category. Joey McBride's storytelling category performance and Katie O'Brien's prose piece was enough put St. Monica School in first place.  Other key members of the team that had a great year were Anna Flemma, poetry; Owen Sinsky, prose; and Savannah Vega Schwartz, prose.

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