Roeper High School Forensics Earns Third Place at States!

We invite the community to join students as they share their award-winning pieces Friday, May 12 at 7 p.m. in the Upper School’s Acheson Theater during the team’s annual Forensics Night!

The 2022-23 Roeper High School Forensics Team’s season came to an end April 28th and 29th at the Class B/CD Michigan Interscholastic Forensic Association (MIFA) State Tournament. Based on students’ cumulative season scores and Regionals performances, all 15 members qualified to participate, earning their individual place among the top 24 students from across the State in each category.

In preparation, team members logged hundreds of personal practice hours and competed in at least three all-day Saturday tournaments over the course of two months. At each tournament the team placed in the top three in their class, and during this past weekend the students’ collective performances and individual bests earned Roeper a well-deserved third place finish out of 12 schools in MIFA Class CD States.

Every student had amazing season-end performances, including Daniel Hernanz 20^th in informative, Graycin Bleiberg 19^th in dramatic interpretation, Meira Gable 17^th in oratory, Ilan Ben-Gal 16^th and Cosmo Steffke 13^th in sales, and Kaitlyn Gruber 14^th in storytelling 9/10. Three students were named top 12 semi-finalists: Caleb Hoover 10^th in dramatic interpretation, Vijval Nandigala 9^th in impromptu, and Hollis Perry 8^th in poetry. Four were state finalists, placing in the top six students in the entire state in their category: Eli Miller placed 5^th in program oral interpretation, Signe Smith 3^rd in poetry, Oskar Zakonjsek was 2^nd in informative, and Ruby McKeever and Vaughn Roycraft won the coveted State Champion title by placing 1^st in duo interpretation.