Neuqua Valley Speech Team

Thursday: We will have our Regional runthrough in the regular Speech Room from 2:45 – 5:45p. Everyone is required to attend!

Saturday: The bus leaves for Oswego HS at 6:30a. The tournament should be over around 7:00p. Everyone (including people not competing) should be suited up as usual!

Congratulations are in order! For all of you who are making strides with your pieces and continuing to deepen your understanding of the text, we as coaches salute you.

With that being said let’s get down to buisness. The following weeks are crucial so let’s have you all prepared for some intense compepition.

Here is who I will need to see tomorrow. *Please note that all I ask is for you to respect the time slots as they are posted; arrive at least 5 minutes before you session.

Dillon and Quinn (HDA)
Akshay (DI)
Zach (OC)

Time slots:

3:30-4:15

4:15-5:00

5:00-5:45

We have had two wonderful weeks of rehearsals, let’s keep the streak going!

I will be in my usual room and comment below for a spot.

Coach El-Kareh

As we move into the state series the expectation is that I am working with the best we have to offer. Come prepared with an up to date copy of your script, any relevant critiques, and full memorization.

Zach (1 Slot, early in the week)

Dillon and Quinn (1 Slot)

Tushar (1 Slot)

Natalie (1 Slot)

Monday

3:15 – 4:15 Tushar

4:20 – 5:20 Natalie

Tuesday

2:45 – 3:45 Dillon and Quinn

3:45 – 4:45

Wednesday

Upon request, or as needed.

I need to see the following people this week!

Alex Shura (Ext/Imp – 2 slots in a row)
Akshay Ravi (DI – 1 slot)
Dillon Tartaglia and Megan Swindle (DDA – 2 slots in a row)
Monika Martinek (HI – 2 slots in a row)
Akshay Ravi (OO – 1 slot)
Roshni Koul (RS – 1 slot)
Dillon Tartaglia and Quinn Brewer (HDA – 2 slots in a row)
Natalie Pear (Poe – 4 slots in a row) (Only after you’re memorized)
Janelle Finch (OD – 2 slots in a row)
Tushar Dwivedi (SOS – 2 slots in a row)

Monday

2:45 – 3:15 [Team meeting]

[Regional Coaches’ Meeting]

Tuesday

2:45 – 3:15 Tushar Dwivedi
3:15 – 3:45 Tushar Dwivedi
3:45 – 4:15 Roshni Koul
4:15 – 4:45 Dillon Tartaglia and Megan Swindle
4:45 – 5:15 Dillon Tartaglia and Megan Swindle
5:15 – 5:45 Dillon Tartaglia and Quinn Brewer
5:45 – 6:15 Dillon Tartaglia and Quinn Brewer
6:15 – 6:45 Janelle Finch
6:45 – 7:15 Janelle Finch
7:15 – 7:45

Wednesday

3:00 – 3:30 Monika Martinek
3:30 – 4:00 Monika Martinek
4:00 – 4:30 Akshay Ravi
4:30 – 5:00 Akshay Ravi
5:00 – 5:30 Alex Shura
5:30 – 6:00 Alex Shura
6:00 – 6:30 Natalie Pear
6:30 – 7:00 Natalie Pear
7:00 – 7:30 Natalie Pear
7:30 – 8:00 Natalie Pear

Thursday

[Regional Runthrough]

Friday

2:45 – 6:45 Practice for everyone

Congratulations to all of you who made the State Series today. As most of you know, this is a crucial week. It does not matter whether you take 1st or 4th this weekend, so long as you keep on keeping on to Sectionals on Feb. 13.

This past month does not matter. Each meet is a new meet. Take each moment of the meet one round at a time. You can only control one thing…yourself.

Breathe……

Please bring a copy of your script and be memorized. I can’t fix anything with your memory issues if the piece is not memorized in the first place!

Archit (1 Slot)
Sruthi (1 Slot)
Alex (IMP 1 Slot)
Monika (1 Slot)

Monday
3:15 – 4:15
4:15 – 5:15

Tuesday
2:45 – 3:45
3:45 – 4:45

Wednesday
No Rehearsals

Thursday
Regional run through

Friday
Tweaking regional pieces as needed per Mehta

Lots of information below!

1) Team members need to bring the following (if you do not bring this, you will not be competing!):

DI and IMP – please bring a 12 pack of 12oz Coke
DDA and INFO – please bring a 12 pack of 12oz Pepsi
HI and SOS – please bring a 12 pack of 12oz Sprite
HDA – please bring a 12 pack of 12oz Diet Coke
OC – please bring a 12 pack of 12oz Diet Pepsi
EXT – please bring a 12 pack of 12oz Dr. Pepper
DEC, PROSE, POETRY, RADIO, and OO – please bring a 30 case of 20oz bottled water

All category leaders must bring 2 boxes of classic mix snack pack of chips (see below) in addition to what we wrote above:

2) We need parents to help us out with concessions during the following times:

7:00a – 9:00a
9:00a – 12:00p
12:00p – 3:00p

If your parents can help, please have them email Pontarelli ASAP. (This is really, really important.)

3) Here is the information you need for Saturday!

Who’s going where?

The tentative roster can be seen here. Please let me know if there are any problems/questions!

What time should you be at the Birkett Center?

6:30a. Be there early!

When will it end?

8:00p. Don’t plan on leaving early

Extemp and Radio?

ES/RS will both prep once in prelims and once for finals.

Close to State Series. So very close…

I expect full memorization. Bring me a clean, unmarked copy of your current script. Also any critiques received so far. Sign up for the first available time slot in a given day, and do not sign up twice. Do not hit post twice.

Monika (HI) (1 Slot)

Sruthi (PR) (1 Slot)

Akshay (OO) (1 Slot)

Janelle (DEC) (1 Slot)

Quinn and Dillion (HDA) (2 Slots One Early in the week, one Friday)

Tushar (SOS) (1 Slot)

Monday

3:15 – 4:15 Quinn and Dillon

4:20 – 5:20 Tushar

5:20 — 6:20

Tuesday

2:45 – 3:45 Quinn and Dillon

3:45 – 4:45 Sruthi

4:45 – 5:45 Janelle

Friday

2:45 – 3:45 Akshay

3:45 – 4:45 Quinn and Dillon

Please select a time to meet with me. If the times do not work for you then you must let me know; email is best.

Arrive several minutes before the given time slot so we can start at the exact time.

Lateness will not be tolerated and at this point of the season it shold not be an issue.

This is who I will need to see tomorrow…

Alex (ES)

Rishi (ES)

Archit (Info)

Michaela (Deca)

Sruthi (PR)

Time slots are as follows:

4:00-4:30

4:30-5:00

5:00-5:30

5:30-6:00

6:00-6:30

Please comment and let’s get some good reps in for tomorrow.

And so begins the final week of regular competition…

No excuses. Work. Work. Work. This is crunch time for pieces; work the kinks out of the scripts, tape yourself and watch what you do well and what you need to improve, record your voice (radio people) to hear the mistakes and fix those issues that just don’t “seem” right; they probably need fixing.

Practice. Practice. Practice.

Check before you click “post” to be sure no one else has your desired time slot.

To see this week – I already put you on days. If this is an issue, please work it out with someone else on another day.
Alex (Imp)
Roshni
Hailey
Akshay (OO)

Monday
2:45 – 3:00 – Meeting
3:00 – 4:00-ish – Alex

Tuesday
2:45 – 3:45 – Roshni
3:45 – 4:30 – Hailey

Wednesday
No rehearsals

Thursday
2:45 – 3:45-ish – Akshay

Friday
Setup at Gold (but there will be someone in the speech hallway for people to rehearse)

I need to see the following people this week!

As before, emergencies may cause me to cancel these practices, but I’ll do my best to keep these dates/times!

Dillon Tartaglia and Quinn Brewer (HDA – 4 slots in a row) (Do not meet with me until this is perfect and ready to go)

Dillon Tartaglia and Megan Swindle (DDA – 4 slots in a row) (Do not meet with me until this is perfect and ready to go)

Monika Martinek (HI – 4 slots in a row) (Do not meet with me until this is memorized)

Alex Shura (Extemp – 2 slots in a row)

Rishi Pandey (Extemp – 1 slot)

Alex Shura (IS – 2 slots in a row)

Hailey Kingsbury (IS – 1 slot)

Zach Honer (OC – 2 slots in a row)

Quinn Brewer (Poetry – 4 slots in a row)

Tushar Dwivedi (SOS – 4 slots in a row)

Zach Honer and Sruthi Rameshkumar (DDA – 1 slot)

Chloe Rappe and Sydney Karbonik (DDA – 1 slot)

Monday

2:45 – 3:15 [Team meeting]
3:15 – 3:45 Sruthi Rameshkumar and Zach Honer
3:45 – 4:15 Zach Honer
4:15 – 4:45 Zach Honer
4:45 – 5:15
5:15 – 5:45
5:45 – 6:15
6:15 – 6:45
6:45 – 7:15
7:15 – 7:45

Tuesday

2:45 – 3:15 Tushar Dwivedi
3:15 – 3:45 Tushar Dwivedi
3:45 – 4:15 Tushar Dwivedi
4:15 – 4:45 Tushar Dwivedi
4:45 – 5:15 Alex Shura
5:15 – 5:45 Alex Shura
5:45 – 6:15 Rishi Pandey
6:15 – 6:45 Sydney Karbonik and Chloe Rappe
6:45 – 7:15
7:15 – 7:45

Wednesday

3:00 – 3:30 Monika Martinek
3:30 – 4:00 Monika Martinek
4:00 – 4:30 Monika Martinek
4:30 – 5:00 Monika Martinek
5:00 – 5:30 Quinn Brewer
5:30 – 6:00 Quinn Brewer
6:00 – 6:30 Quinn Brewer
6:30 – 7:00 Quinn Brewer
7:00 – 7:30 Alex Shura
7:30 – 8:00 Alex Shura

Thursday

2:45 – 3:15
3:15 – 3:45 Hailey Kingsbury
3:45 – 4:15 Quinn Brewer and Dillon Tartaglia
4:15 – 4:45 Quinn Brewer and Dillon Tartaglia
4:45 – 5:15 Quinn Brewer and Dillon Tartaglia
5:15 – 5:45 Quinn Brewer and Dillon Tartaglia
5:45 – 6:15 Dillon Tartaglia and Megan Swindle
6:15 – 6:45 Dillon Tartaglia and Megan Swindle
6:45 – 7:15 Dillon Tartaglia and Megan Swindle
7:15 – 7:45 Dillon Tartaglia and Megan Swindle

Friday

[Setting up for tournament]