The SMOS Speech Team performed in their third Bellarmine Speech meet on March 28, 2026! Please join us on congratulating our amazing Dragons on their terrific performance and thanking members of our SMOS community for their support of our team!
Duet
- Izzy Apicelli (6) and Betty Sherman (6) – Blue
- Lou Barnett (5) and Audie Defenbaugh (5) – Gold
- Lizzie Bauer (8) and Luke Bauer (8) – Blue
- Josephine Bradshaw (7) and Rowan Mork (7) – Blue
- Zora Burgess (5) and Eliana Klosterman (5) – Gold
- Evie Chorkey (5) and Cecelia Ordway (5) – Gold
- Maddie English (7) and Ava Whealon (8) – Gold
- Penelope Gray (8) and Ryan Ohs (8) – Gold
- Rae Harper (6) and Riley Harper (6) – Blue
- Elliot Mork (7) and Jonah Neuschafer (8) – Honorable Mention (unable to attend due to illness)
- Cecelia Schoemehl (5) and Anna Toben (5) – Gold
Serious
- Ellie Adams (7) – Blue
- Frankie Bushlack (6) – Gold
- Teddy Callison (6) – Blue
- Lydia Eckelcamp (7) – Blue
- Frances Faul (6) – Blue
- Lucy Garcia (8) – Blue
- Finn Henke (7) – Blue
- Joseph Moramarco (5) – Blue
- Rose Overberg (6) – Gold
- Flora Perkins (6) – Gold
- Zoey Rezac (6) – Gold
- Evelyn Schoemehl (8) – Gold
Humorous
- Charlie Apicelli (5) – Red
- Nora Esker (8) – Gold
- Mica Garcia (6) – Red
- Daisy Herman (8) – Blue
- Mara Holt (5) – Blue
- Mari Ohs (6) – Gold
- Miriam Pera (5) – Blue
- Addie Rolwes (6) – Gold
- Louisa Russell (6) – Gold
- Sarah Stevens (6) – Blue
- Rebecca Stevens (7) – Blue
Speech Team Thank Yous
We would not be able to support our team without the help of our assistant coaches, teachers, and parents! Thank you so much to Mary Ellen Bertram, Joan Kauling, Jim Rocca, Audrey McGarry, Ella Torrez, Gyia Defenbaugh, and Gabriella Wimbley for helping to coach our team! Thank you to our middle school teachers for allowing us to use your classrooms for practice. We truly appreciate you working with us.
Emily Adams, Sarah Fenske, Ron Knapp, Ryan Ohs, Jim Rocca, and Lisa Whealon served as judges at the meet locations. Thank you so much! Thank you also to Emilie Overberg, Kelly Simon, and Michelle Stevens for serving as team supervisors at the meet locations.
The following awesome people made a drive out to Dardenne Prairie to help the host school with timekeeping: Elle Defenbaugh, Glory Defenbaugh, Jami Defenbaugh, and Theresa Schlafly. Jim Rocca also stepped in to help with timekeeping as well! We appreciate you all very much.
Finally, thank you to Mary Ellen Bertram, Janel Esker, and April Trees for serving as Board Members for the Bellarmine Speech League. Their work in planning the meets and coordinating them at each location is wonderful and makes the meets possible for our SMOS students as well as students throughout the Archdiocese of St. Louis.
Thank you also to our SMOS community for supporting our Valentine’s Day Bake Sale! The following won the Valentine’s Day Raffle: Michael Sonntag, Pavlo Tkachenko, and Dekyln Stabler Hajduk. We appreciate your support!
