page_title: Walker-Hackensack-Akeley High School
section_title: Speech
hierarchical_section_title: Walker-Hackensack-Akeley High School / Speech
caption_attribution_description: English: State Speech team at Walker-Hackensack-Akeley High School
context_page_description: Walker-Hackensack-Akeley High School is a public high school located in Walker, Minnesota, United States. It is part of Independent School District #113. Students come from Walker, Hackensack, Akeley, Onigum, and Laporte, Minnesota.
  The school offers honors classes as well as Post Secondary Enrollment Options. PSEO is a Minnesota Department of Education program that allows qualifying high school juniors and seniors to take college classes for high school credit at no cost to the student. Foreign languages at WHA include Spanish for grades 9 through 12 and German, although being phased out, for eleventh and twelfth grades.
context_section_description: The WHA speech team has competed for 44 years.  In those 44 years, participants have earned 209 state speech medals, 39 state championships, and speakers have competed 32 times on the national level.
  WHA has a number of National Forensic League Academic All-Americans.
  At the 2007 state tournament, the WHA speech team had a record five state champions. The WHA team also had a record number of state medals with 17 total medals in 2007. In 2008, the WHA speech team won the section tournament for the 17th consecutive year.
  At the 2008 NFL National Qualifying tournament, a record six speakers qualified for the NFL National Tournament in Las Vegas, Nevada in June 2008.
  In the 2010 speech season, WHA won sections for the 20th year in a row.
caption: 9 of the 17 2007 National Forensic League State Medalists
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