Congratulations to the winners of Chinese Speech Contests at WMU!
2025 WINNERS
Outstanding Individual Award
Middle school level - Sophia Smalligan
High school level - Sri Sang
Excellent Performance Award for Speech Contest
High school level 4:
- First place - Harriet Ogilvie
- Second place - Maxwell McGrath
- Third Prize - Liam Watson
High school level 3:
- First place - Winston Camp
- Second place - Minhao Chen; Kaylee Milliron
- Third Prize - Blake Gale
High school level 1:
- First place - Sri Sang
- Second place - Eleazar Hakizimana
Middle school level 2:
- First place - Sophia Smalligan
- Second place - Emilly Wang; Nia Peterson
- Third place - Berniece VanBennekom; Isabella He; Linda Xiao
Excellent Performance Award for Knowledge Competition
High school level 4:
- First place - Maxwell McGrath
- Second place - Liam Watson
- Third place - Harriet Ogilvie; Kaitlyn Konyndyk
High school level 3:
- First place - Kiri Newton
- Second place - Minhao Chen
- Third place - Sofía Burdick; Yuna Park
High school level 1:
- First place - Sri Sang
Middle school level 2:
- First place - Sophia Smalligan
- Second place - Emilly Wang; Nia Peterson
- Third place - Berniece VanBennekom; Ronin Milliron
Excellent Performance Award for Talent Show
- First place - Sri Sang
- Second place - Sophia Smalligan
- Third place - Rose Konrad
2024 WINNERS
Outstanding Individual Award
Middle school level 2 - Sophia Smalligan
Excellent Performance Award for Speech Contest
High school level 4:
- First place - Ava Tuohy
- Second place - Taylor Sowers
- Third Prize - Violet Chamberlain
High school level 3:
- First place - Eddie Wuerthele
- Second place - Minhao Chen; Winston Camp
- Third Prize - William Watson; Philip Chamberlain
High school level 2:
- First place - Rayyan Sanusi
- Second place - Aniya Foster
Middle school level 2:
- First place - Emilly Wang; Kaylee Milliron
- Second place - Yuna Park
- Third place - Kiri Newton; Zoe VanTongeren
Excellent Performance Award for Knowledge Competition
College level:
- First place - Ferris Harper
High school level 4:
- First place - Ava Tuohy
- Second place - Spencer Porter
High school level 3:
- First place - Minhao Chen
- Second place - Helen Jeon; Winston Camp
- Third place - DeeDee Cairns; Eddie Wuerthele
High school level 2:
- First place - Jackson Lam
Middle school level 2:
- First place - Sophia Smalligan
- Second place - Yuna Park
- Third place - Kiri Newton
Excellent Performance Award for Talent Show
- First place - Jessica Liu
- Second place - Brooke Gordon; Sophia Smalligan
- Third place - Lennox Crawford; Ferris Harper
2023 WINNERS
Outstanding Individual Award
Middle school level 2 - Sam Ogilvie
High School Level 3 - Maxwell McGrath; Harriet Ogilvie
Excellent Performance Award for Speech Contest
High school level 4:
- First place - Haley Cook
- Second place - Chole Ellis; Violet Chamberlain
High school level 3:
- First place - Maxwell McGrath
- Second place - Edward Wuerthele; Lucy Stegeman
- Third Prize - Emma Simpson
High school level 2:
- First place - Hannah Boothby
Middle school level 2:
- First place - Minhao Chen
- Second place - Yuna Park, Zoe VanTongeren
- Third place - Kiri Newton, Helen Jeon
Excellent Performance Award for Knowledge Competition
High school level 4:
- First place - Tess McGrath
- Second place - Chloe Ellis, Haley Cook
- Third place - Violet Chamberlain, Aaron Chrenk
High school level 3:
- First place - Elizabeth Buth
- Second place - Edward Wuethele; Maxwell McGrath
- Third place - Gabriel Williams; Harriet Ogilvie; Lucy Stegeman
High school level 2:
- First place - Hannah Boothby
Middle school level 2:
- First place - Yuna Park
- Second place - Minhao Chen, Kiri Newton
- Third place - Matthew Langen, Winston Camp, Keaton Cook, Sofia Burdick
Excellent Performance Award for Talent Show
- First place - Harriet Ogilvie
- Second place - Victor Konrad; Giselle Wong
- Third place - Brooke Gordon; Benjamin Pease
Team Participation Award
- FHN CHIN 2750
- FHN Chin 2100 (5th hour)
2022 WINNERS
Outstanding Individual Award
High school level 3 - Celina Du
High school level 1 - Hannah Boothby
Middle school - Tristan Zhang
Excellent Performance Award for Speech Contest
High school level 4:
- First place - Ava Hamilton
- Second place - Camille Gerville-Reache
High school level 3:
- First place - Kendall Crawford
- Second place - Celina Du
High school level 2:
- First place - Maxwell Lee
- Second place - Spencer Jones
High school level 1:
- First place - Hannah Boothby; Shalini Sunder
- Second place - Aniya Foster
- Third place - Lexsie Nguyen
Middle school:
- First place - Tristan Zhang
- Second place - Minhao Chen
Excellent Performance Award for Knowledge Competition
High school level 4:
- First place - Tyler Mick
- Second place - Annierae Lang
High school level 3:
- First place - Celina Du
- Second place - Tess McGrath; Chloe Ellis
- Third place - Kendall Crawford; Reagan Finkler; Lucy Stegeman; Haley Cook; Jakob Glessner
High school level 2:
- First place - Spencer Jones
- Second place - Maxwell Lee
High school level 1:
- First place - Dalea Campbell
- Second place - Hannah Boothby
Middle school:
- First place - Minhao Chen
- Second place - Jacob Zhang
Excellent Performance Award for Talent Show
- First place - Victor Konrad
- Second place - Tristan Zhang; Celina Du
- Third place - Annierae Lang; Jacob Zhang; Caius Hoffman
2021 WINNERS
High school level 4:
- First place - William Rechner
- Second place - Sophia McGrath
- Third place - Averie Fitzjohn
High school level 3:
- First place - Tess McGrath
- Second place - Celina Du
- Third place - Violet Chamberlain
High school level 2:
- First place - Soo-Yeon Kim
- Second place - Cameron Dancel
- Third place - Lianara Garcia
High school level 1:
- First place - Nicholas Plentis
- Second place - Dryw Cate Starkey-Williams
- Third place - Jane Marian Swartz