March 24, 2022

The Dripping Springs High School speech and debate team captured first place at the District 26-5A Meet on Wednesday, March 23 in New Braunfels.

Dripping Springs had 10 students place in the top six of their respective events with eight advancing to the UIL Region IV Meet on April 22-23 at UTSA. The DSHS CX Debate team consisting of Jackson Berthelsen, Claire Bynum, Zoe Costanza, Eli Craddock, Johnny Martinez, and Katherine Mihaly also contributed to the speech and debate district championship after winning their district title in January.

Complete Results (*Regional Qualifier):

Prose
*Jake Broyles, 2nd place

Poetry
*Evie Grimm, 3rd place
Alicia Hernandez, 4th place (Alternate)

Informative
*Eli Craddock, 1st place
*Lily Claire Kroll, 3rd place

Persuasive
*Lizzie Galassini, 1st place
*Colton De Los Santos, 2nd place
Jackie Truesdell, 6th place

Lincoln-Douglas
*Brett Banks, 2nd place
*Daniel Hearne, 3rd place
Colton De Los Santos, 5th place