Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First

P-D Speech Team Heads Back To State

The Potter-Dix High School speech team is heading back to State.

The Coyotes, five-time State champions since 2002, qualified for the D1 state competition at Kearney High School on March 19 after winning this year's District and Minuteman Activities Conference championships.

Potter-Dix's speech pedigree is most impressive.

Since the turn of the century, the team won D1 state titles in 2002 and 2012 and D2 titles in 2011, 2016 and 2019. For good measure, they were D1 runners-up in 1998, 2010 and 2013.

On top of that, the team remains the most recent D2 champion because the pandemic canceled Sta...