Speech Individual Events Season Summaries

* Last updated at 10:11 am on Sunday, October 19, 2025

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Season summaries include titles won (and the class they were won in), final place in state, final won-lost record, and head coach for all seasons submitted by the school or gathered from IHSA records.

A few titles are missing (complete list of missing titles). Changes and additions to these records may be made by school personnel through the IHSA Schools Center.

Key to titles: D–district, R–regional, S–sectional, U–super-sectional, Q–team qualifier for state finals, P–Chicago Public League champion (only when an automatic qualifier).

Danville (H.S.)

Season Class Titles Place Won Lost Tied Coach
1966-67   D          

Darien (Hinsdale South)

Season Class Titles Place Won Lost Tied Coach
2018-19              
2019-20              
2021-22     1        

Decatur (Lakeview)

Season Class Titles Place Won Lost Tied Coach
1964-65   D          

Decatur (MacArthur)

Season Class Titles Place Won Lost Tied Coach
1974-75   D          
1975-76   D          
1976-77   S          
1981-82   D          
1982-83   R          
1983-84   RS          

Decatur (St. Teresa)

Season Class Titles Place Won Lost Tied Coach
1961-62   D          

Deerfield (H.S.)

Season Class Titles Place Won Lost Tied Coach
1969-70   D          
1973-74   D          
1974-75   D          
1975-76              
1976-77              
1982-83   R          
1983-84   R          
1984-85   R          

DeKalb

Season Class Titles Place Won Lost Tied Coach
1940-41              
1942-43              
1943-44              
1959-60              
1960-61              
1966-67   D          
1967-68   D          
1968-69   D          
1969-70   D          
1970-71   D          
1972-73   D          
1973-74   D          
1985-86              
1986-87   R          
1990-91   R          
1994-95   R         Greg Solomon
1995-96   RS         Greg Solomon
1996-97   R         Greg Solomon
1997-98   R         Greg Solomon
1998-99   R         Greg Solomon
1999-00   R         Greg Solomon
2001-02   R          
2002-03   R         Greg Solomon & T. J. Fontana
2003-04   R         Greg Solomon & T. J. Fontana
2004-05   RS         Greg Solomon & T.J. Fontana
2005-06   RS         Greg Solomon & T. J. Fontana
2006-07   RS         Greg Solomon
2007-08   RS         Greg Solomon
2008-09   RS         Greg Solomon
2009-10   RS         Greg Solomon
2010-11   RS         Greg Solomon
2011-12   RS         Greg Solomon
2012-13   RS         Greg Solomon & T.J. Fontana
2013-14   RS         Greg Solomon
2014-15   R         Greg Solomon & T.J. Fontana
2015-16   R         T.J. Fontana, Greg Solomon
2016-17   R         Greg Solomon & T.J. Fontana
2017-18   RS          
2019-20   S         Greg Solomon & TJ Fontana

Des Plaines (Maine North)

Season Class Titles Place Won Lost Tied Coach
1975-76              

Des Plaines (Maine West)

Season Class Titles Place Won Lost Tied Coach
1971-72   D          
1976-77              
1981-82   D          
1986-87   R          
1987-88   R          

Dolton (Thornridge)

Season Class Titles Place Won Lost Tied Coach
1962-63              
1963-64   DS          
1964-65   DS          
1965-66              
1967-68   D 1       Jan Benjamin
1968-69   D 1       Jan Benjamin
1969-70   DS 1       Jan Benjamin
1970-71   S 1       Jan Benjamin
1971-72              
1974-75   D          
1975-76   D          
1980-81              
1981-82   D          
1982-83   RS          
1983-84   R          
1984-85   RS 3       Jan Benjamin
1985-86   S          
1989-90              
1993-94     3        
1996-97              
2008-09             Yvonne Nesbitt

Downers Grove (North)

Season Class Titles Place Won Lost Tied Coach
1982-83   R          
1997-98              
2000-01              
2001-02              
2006-07             Missy Carlson
2007-08             Missy Carlson
2008-09   R         Missy Carlson & Bill Fleming
2009-10   R         Missy Carlson & Bill Fleming
2010-11             Missy Carlson & Bill Fleming
2011-12     2       Missy Carlson
2012-13             Missy Carlson
2013-14             Missy Carlson
2015-16             Missy Carlson
2016-17             Missy Carlson

Downers Grove (South)

Season Class Titles Place Won Lost Tied Coach
1981-82   D 3       John Hires & Jan Heiteen
1982-83             John Hires & Jan Heiteen
1983-84   R 3       John Hires & Jan Heiteen
1984-85   RS 1       John Hires & Jan Heiteen
1985-86   RS         John Hires & Jan Heiteen
1986-87   S 1       John Hires & Jan Heiteen
1987-88   RS 2       John Hires & Jan Heiteen
1988-89   RS         John Hires & Jan Heiteen
1989-90   RS 2       John Hires & Jan Heiteen
1990-91   RS 2       John Hires & Jan Heiteen
1991-92   RS 1       John Hires & Jan Heiteen
1992-93   RS         John Hires & Jan Heiteen
1993-94   RS 1       John Hires & Jan Heiteen
1994-95   R 1       John Hires & Jan Heiteen
1995-96   RS 1       John Hires & Jan Heiteen
1996-97   RS 1       John Hires & Jan Heiteen
1997-98   RS 2       John Hires & Jan Heiteen
1998-99   RS 2       John Hires & Jan Heiteen
1999-00   R 3       John Hires & Jan Heiteen
2000-01   RS 1       Jan Heiteen
2001-02   R 2       Jan Heiteen
2002-03   RS 2       Jan Heiteen
2003-04   RS 1       Jan Heiteen
2004-05   RS 1       Jan Heiteen
2005-06   RS 1       Jan Heiteen
2006-07   RS 1       Jan Heiteen
2007-08   RS 1       Jan Heiteen
2008-09   S 1       Jan Heiteen
2009-10   S 3       Jan Heiteen
2010-11   RS 1       Jan Heiteen
2011-12   RS 1       Jan Heiteen
2012-13   RS 2       Nicole Carreno
2013-14   R         Nicole Carreno
2014-15   S 3       Justin Matkovich
2015-16             Justin Matkovich
2016-17   RS 1       Justin Matkovich
2017-18   RS 1       Justin Matkovich
2019-20     1       Justin Matkovich
2021-22     2        
2023-24     2        
2024-25     2       Justin Matkovich

Dundee

Season Class Titles Place Won Lost Tied Coach
1972-73   D          
1973-74   S          
1975-76              

Dunlap

Season Class Titles Place Won Lost Tied Coach
1989-90              
2016-17   R         Stacy Brooks
2018-19   R         Stacy Brooks
2019-20   RS         Stacy Brooks

DuQuoin (H.S.)

Season Class Titles Place Won Lost Tied Coach
1940-41              
1941-42              
1942-43              
1944-45              
1945-46              
1946-47              
1947-48              
1948-49              
1951-52              
1952-53              
1955-56             Jeanette Lloyd & Ralph Enstrom
1958-59     2        
1960-61   D          
1961-62   DS          
1962-63   D          
1963-64   D 2        
1964-65   S          
1968-69              
1974-75              
1982-83   R          
1996-97   S          
1997-98   RS          
2006-07             Crystal Harsy

Dwight

Season Class Titles Place Won Lost Tied Coach
1942-43              
1944-45