{"id":225439,"date":"2026-04-09T21:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/225439\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T21:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:54:10","slug":"olympia-high-school-heading-to-national-speech-competitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/225439\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympia High School heading to national speech competitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h932386-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">Olympia High School announced its speech and debate teams made history at the National Speech and Debate Association Regional Qualifier.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h932386-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">&#8220;For the first time in program history, Olympia has taken all three qualifying spots in Public Forum Debate,&#8221; the announcement said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h932386-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">The three teams include J. Meyers and S. Patel, A. Williams and E. Senatus, and K. Parikh and L. Cumberbatch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h932386-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">These students will head to Nationals in Richmond from June 14 to June 19.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h932386-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">Seven Titans also are heading to National Catholic Forensic League Grand Nationals in Washington D.C. from May 22 to May 24.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h932386-p6\" class=\"permalinkable\">They are J. Wesley, J. Meyers, S. Patel, N. Reed, Z. Martin, A. Hunanyan and G. Rousseau.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h932386-p7\" class=\"permalinkable\">&#8220;Out of 27 schools, the Titans didn\u2019t just complete, they dominated!&#8221; the school posted online.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olympia High School announced its speech and debate teams made history at the National Speech and Debate Association&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-225439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}