Irish Insights

BMCHS students making their mark across the state

After weeks celebrating Catholic Schools and HoCo, students have been busy with everything from drama and debate to finishing up many of the winter sports, with Valentine’s festivities offering more highlights. 

Speech, debate dominate
In early February, the speech and debate teams competed in the Crossings Christian Tournament, taking first place in the 5A team sweeps and third in the Championship team sweeps. The tournament left the team with 22 regionals qualifiers in more than 100 events.

The qualifiers and their events:

Prose
Olivia Chumo, 1st place; Audrey Adair, 2nd place; Matthew De Leon, 3rd place.

Dramatic Interp
Victoria Farley, 1st place; Fiorella Perdue, 2nd place; Luke Bryan, 3rd place.

Standard Oratory
Ellie Stayton, 1st place; Katelyn Guadalupe, 2nd place; Alexis Shore, 3rd place.

Humorous Interp
Sophie Pierce, 1st place.

Monologue
Taylor Davidson, 1st place; Maren Camp, 2nd place.

Program Oral Interp
Addison McCoy, 1st place.

Humorous Duet
Ellie Stayton and Mary Krodel, 2nd place.

Dramatic Duet
Fiorella Perdue and Kendra Wadmia, 1st place; Jayden Southerland and Victoria Farley, 2nd place.

Foreign Extemp
Luke Worthington, 1st place; Liam Humphries, 3rd place.

Domestic Extemp
Eli Webb, 1st place; Katelyn Guadalupe, 3rd place.

Public Forum Debate
Sullivan Hoover and Gabriel Ireland, 1st place; Alexis Shore and Luci Speed, 2nd place.


‘Little Women’
For the past couple months, the drama department has been rehearsing and building sets for its production of “Little Women,” which ran Feb. 20-22. As the first dramatic play the department has done in recent years, sophomore Lacey Ann Lake said the cast made good progress memorizing lines and she thought it was interesting to see the period costumes for the play.

Lake plays Mrs Gardener, a neighbor of the March sisters.

“To see them be somebody other than themselves is fun,” Lake said.

Art Club
The art club held its Chinese New Year celebration, with members decorating their own fans and snake puppets. 

“I just thought it would be fun and beneficial to have people participate and learn about Chinese culture in a creative way,” Art Club President Angela Williams said.

The club also held a Valentines meeting where members made candy gram cards. 

Boots and Beaus
Clancy Club and StuCo held their second Boots and Beaus Dance at the Harn Homestead to celebrate Catholic Schools Week and HoCo week,. For many underclassmen, the dance was their first.

“On a scale of one to 10 I’d give it a 10,” freshman Caroline Collins said. “It was just a great experience.”

HoCo
After a loss to Bishop Kelley, junior Charlotte Nelson was crowned basketball HoCo Queen. Her  escort was Sam Margo and she was crowned by Andrew Harris, alongside former queen Perri Mossman, flower girl Hannah Evans and crown bearer Brooks Brown.

“I just felt so much love and support from all my family and friends, and especially from the court,” Nelson said. “It was such a fantastic group to be a part of.”

Katherine Menz is a junior at Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School.


Photo: (Above) Sophomore Luke Parcell “guillotined” a Casady wrestler at the Feb. 4 dual. Photo Kaylie Fedor.

Former HoCo queen and senior Perri Mossman crowned junior Charlotte Nelson, who was escorted by junior Sam Margo, at the basketball HoCo game against Bishop Kelley. Photo Kamran Taylor

Senior Ian Cox and junior Helen Small danced at the Boots and Beaus western dance. Photo Aimee Martinez.