LaPlante wins state speech title
GSL junior Anthony LaPlante made the most of his first trip to the Minnesota Class A State Speech Tournament Friday at Wayzata High School. He won a state championship.
LaPlante headlined the GSL contingent. He and senior Leah Bettcher both competed in extemporaneous reading from “A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories,” by Ray Bradbury. Bettcher finished tied for fourth but settled for fifth in a tiebreaker. As a team, GSL’s four contestants finished 11th of the 92 schools represented in the competition.
LaPlante and Bettcher had 30 minutes to prepare their presentations from a randomly selected piece from Bradbury’s book.
(For the complete story, see the April 17 print edition of The Chronicle.)