The Reitz Memorial High School speech team won the 2024 Hoosier Heartland Districts Tournament championship March 2 in Indianapolis. This was the school’s third consecutive district championship. Memorial set school records by winning three out of eight category championships and by qualifying five entries for the NSDA National Speech and Debate Tournament, which will be held June 16-21. Memorial senior Katelyn Fehrenbacher won the District Student of the Year Award. The district champions and national qualifiers were Fehrenbacher in U.S. Extemporaneous, Emma Payne in Humorous Interpretation and Amanda Vollmer in Dramatic Interpretation. National qualifiers who placed second in their category were Blake Hershberger and Jackson Memmer in Duo Interpretation and Chris Sermersheim in International Extemporaneous.