Ewing Finishes Runner-Up; Funk Wins State Championship

Samantha Funk won a state championship at the state speech meet and helped lead Ewing to a runner-up finish in Class D2.

Funk won a gold medal in Humorous Prose and teamed with Linzie Van Horn for a third-place finish in Duets. Van Horn also finished third in Entertainment. Dani Anderson placed third in Informative to round out medalists. 

Emily Eacker was ninth in Serious Interpretation and Doris Herrera was ninth in Poetry. 

Ewing finished just two points behind state champion Potter-Dix and 14 points ahead of third-place Bruning-Davenport.