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Comeaux gets 5th consecutive win at national speech competition

Posted at 2:35 PM, Mar 04, 2019
and last updated 2019-03-04 15:35:15-05

The Comeaux High Speech and Debate Team brought home another first place win over the weekend at the NCFL National Qualifying District Tournament.

This is the team’s 5th consecutive first place in NCFL District Sweepstakes competitions

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Comeaux Speech and Debate team
Courtesy Jacob Simon

Nineteen students qualified for the 2019 National Tournament to be held this year in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Three of those students making the trip will be returning Nationals Champions, according to speech coach Jacob Simon.

Simon says that Grand Nationals is one of the largest Academic Competitions in the country. The Comeaux speech team has successfully placed within the Top 5 for the past four years, winning Speech School of Excellence Sweepstakes awards the last two years.

Over 1200 high school teams attend Grand Nationals each year. To qualify students must place in the Top 5 in their NCFL District Tournament event.