Canton High School Speech Team

02/10/2026

After lots of hard work and nervous waiting, we're excited to announce...

5️⃣ CHS events are advancing to Sectionals in Morris this coming weekend! 🎙🎭💜💛

As a team, we tied for 🏆4th Place in Team Sweeps🏆 in our Regional because of the efforts of *every single team member* who competed. We couldn't be more proud!

DI - 3rd Place 🥉
EXT - 3rd Place 🥉
IMP - 3rd Place 🥉
DEC - 7th Place
OO - 3rd Place 🥉
POE - 5th Place
PRO - 5th Place
RS - 4th Place 🏅

🎉Our DI, EXT, IMP, OO, and RS students are all advancing to Sectionals!

Whether their season ended this past weekend or they are packing their bags for Morris, we are so proud of all of our team members who get up early on cold Saturday mornings and ask for adults to judge, rank, and critique them on their work. It take very special young people to choose this activity - and we are blessed with some of the best Speechies out there! 💜💛

02/02/2026

This weekend's tournament took us to Elmwood High School - and several of our speakers took home medals!

Our team was represented by four finalists who placed as follows:
🎭 DI ~ 5th Place 🏅
🌐 EXTEMP ~ 4th Place 🏅
🗣 DEC ~ 5th Place (tie) 🏅
✏️ OO ~ 🎉 1st Place 🥇✨️TOURNAMENT CHAMPION! ✨️

We will hit rehearsals hard this week as our team gears up for the important step they will take next weekend - the IHSA Regional tournament, the first step in the state series competitions!

01/24/2026

We have a little catching up to do after the busy week for our speechies. We've been focused on building up everyone's performances and missed posting after the team competed in the CISDA tournament held at Eureka High School last Saturday (1/17)!

This tournament was BIG with TOUGH competition over a long day, but we are proud to honor our 3rd place JV Extemporaneous speaker for her accomplishment! 🥉

Our speakers have this Saturday off from competition - the weather has postponed Elmwood's tournament to next weekend. On the plus side, while we are appreciating not having an early bus to catch, this also means some extra time to rehearse and polish up pieces to go in strong on the 31st! 🎙🎭💜💛

We are sending everyone wishes for warmth and safety over this frigid winter weekend! 🥶❄️

01/22/2026

It's a VERY busy week for our team - 3 tournaments in 8 days! Last night, we competed in the Mid-Illini meet at Washington Community High School.

We were down a few team members, and it's always a long day for our speakers, but we're still so proud of their accomplishments!

🎙Ranking 5th Place as a team in our conference, our speakers earned the following awards:
EXT ~ 4th Place 🏅
IMP ~ 4th Place 🏅
DEC ~ 5th Place
OO ~ 🎉1ST PLACE (3-way tie)🥇
PRO ~ 4th Place 🏅

01/12/2026

Our team certainly knows how to start a season with a bang - 4 medals and the 3rd Place Team Sweep! 🤯🏆🎙🎭

For our first competition of the 2025-2026 season, we attended the Monmouth-Roseville Tournament on Saturday, January 10th. We're proud to say that, even with only about half of our events competing this weekend, our speakers earned 3rd place overall as a team!

Individual finalist speakers placed as follows:
🌐Extemporaneous Speaking: 3rd Place🥉
⏳️Impromptu Speaking: 🎉1st Place🥈
✏️Original Oratory: 3rd Place🥉
🎙Radio Speaking: 2nd Place (3-way tie) 🥈

🏆3rd Place Overall Team Sweep!🏆

Congratulations, Little Giant Speechies! Now for a busy week in rehearsal to keep building up our performances for next weekend's tournament at Eureka.

02/15/2025

She may not have made it to finals, but we're still so incredibly proud of Madeline, our Sectionals-qualifying Impromptu speaker, for her work this season. The competition at the Washington Sectional was TOUGH, but this 3x Sectional Speaker should still be incredibly proud of her accomplishments!

And with that, our season comes to a close. Thank you all for your support and well wishes along the way. We'll see you next season.
🎭🎙💜💛

02/11/2025

It was a LONG day of Speech on Saturday as our team stepped into the tournament we work for all season -- our Regional competition. Some stiff competition and tough judges came our way, but we are so proud of our team's work!

We had 6 events qualify for finals:
👥️🎭DDA - 5th Place
😥🎭DI - 6th Place
💡IMP - 3rd Place 🥉
✏️OO - 6th Place
🥀POE - Competitor
📖PRO - 6th Place
🎙RS - 6th Place

But our season isn't over just yet....
🎉OUR IMPROMPTU SPEAKER IS ON HER WAY TO SECTIONALS THIS WEEKEND!🎉

To all those whose season ended at Regionals, we are so proud of your hard work and passion for what you do! We know you left your hearts in those competition rooms. ❤️‍🩹

01/21/2025

🥶 This includes our plans to compete at the Mid-Illi Tournament in Pekin tonight. Don't worry! The rescheduling is already underway!

Instead, our speakers are staying nice and warm at home 🧣and practicing their pieces🗣 to prepare for the Elmwood Tournament on Saturday!

🚨 Attention CUSD #66 Families and Community 🚨

All CUSD #66 events scheduled for today, January 21, have been canceled.

Thank you for your continued support of Canton schools!

01/19/2025

EUREKA CISDA TOURNAMENT ✅️

6 events premiered in this competitive day of performances, and we are so proud of our speakers! Check out the hardware!

💡Impromptu Speaking -- Varsity Finalist
✏️ Original Oratory -- JV Tournament Champion (1st)🎉🥇

‼️🏆2ND PLACE Small School Entry🏆‼️

The future of our season is looking bright!
Next up: Mid-Illini Tournament

03/16/2024

Today is World Speech Day! 🌎🎙

"World Speech Day started with a simple idea: speeches change the world; socially, politically, in the arts, business and religion. They play a profound role in holding our societies together and shaping change. Then why not create a day to celebrate speeches and speechmaking through live public speaking events around the world, reaching out to everywhere?"

Our students do amazing things through spoken word all season -- today celebrates to powerful skill they are learning and honing while on our team!

02/11/2024

And with that, the official portion of the 2023-2024 Speech season ends for the CHS Speechies. While we don't have anyone advancing to State this year, we still need to brag on our team for a moment --

It takes a very special kind of teenager to choose to get up very early on Saturday mornings in the winter to get on a bus and ask adults to judge a performance they put their heart and soul into. We are blessed with some amazing, wonderful, talented teenagers who do just that -- and do it so well they made it to the second highest level of competition in our state's competition series again this year. We can't wait to see what they can accomplish next season!👏👏

🎉Congratulations to these 5 speakers for their accomplishments and to the whole Speech Team for their growth this season!

🎭🎙💜💛

02/10/2024

SECTIONALS BOUND!

We broke up up our long bus ride with a stop for dinner before making our way to our hotel to rest for the night. Saturday morning will start bright and early as our team jumps into their competition rounds. Break legs, Speechies!