Academic teams win district championship

Morgan Hykin

Academic UIL events have begun, giving students the opportunity to enhance their education in a competitive way. UIL teams such as Debate and marching band have already competed successfully.

Katie Curry, Staff Reporter

For the second year in a row, the school’s UIL academic teams won the District 13-4A championship. Below is a list of students and the event for which they have advanced to at the regional meet at UT Arlington May 1-3.

 

Accounting:

Chloe Tedder

Rachel Tedder

Melissa Martin (Alternate)

Current Issues:

Kerry Joiner (Alternate)

Computer Applications: 

Marcus Mao

Jost Luebbe

Computer Science: 

William B Speicher

Brandon Tsui

Nicholas Larsen

Feature Writing:

Lauren Payne

Hallie Fischer (Alternate)

 Headline Writing: 

Sarah Hamilton

 Informative Speaking: 

Colin Cross

Lincoln Douglas Debate:

Blake R Parker

Max Anderson

Ellie Hager

 Mathematics:

Marcus Mao

Calvin Liu

Number Sense:

Marcus Mao

Calvin Liu

Aaron J Hintz

News Writing: 

Savannah Whitmer

Persuasive Speaking: 

Abby Orr (Alternate)

Poetry Interpretation: 

Nathan Wutzke

Prose Interpretation: 

Emma Holmes

Avery Flessner

Sonali Mehta (Alternate)

Ready Writing:

Jackson D Larimer

Megan Tran-Olmsted (Alternate)

Chemistry: 

Damon L Printz

Science: 

Michael F Pezzulli

Damon L Printz

Physics: 

Michael F Pezzulli

Social Studies: 

Austin L Tedman

Kerry Joiner

Spelling and Vocabulary: 

John Reaves

Nidhi Prakuzhy

 

TEAM EVENTS

 

Accounting (1st): 

Chloe Tedder

Rachel Tedder

Melissa Martin

Andrew Kalinke

Current Issues (2nd): 

Joiner Kerry

Stu Mair

Jolen A Martinez

Austin Tedman

Computer Science(1st): 

William B Speicher

Brandon Tsui

Nicholas Larsen

Blake Kohl

Cross Examination Debate(1st): 

Jolen Martinez

Matthew Norwood

John T Haynes

Stu Mair

Mathematics(1st): 

Marcus Mao

Calvin Liu

Aaron J Hintz

William B Speicher

Number Sense(1st): 

Marcus Mao

Calvin Liu

Aaron J Hintz

William B Speicher

One Act Play(1st):

Farren Barnett

Meredith Bergwall

Rachel Bradley

Haley Brown

Mitch Cross

Trace Glorioso

Pierce Goddard

Catherine Hathaway

Blake Herring

Emma Holmes

Rachel Jackson

Zoe Kahana

Kamie Lloyd

Ben Meaders

Dillon Raforth

Morgan Riddle

Caroline Smith

Erin Vatteroni

Mckay Walters

Olivia Whitehead

Dillon Raforth

Science(1st): 

Michael F Pezzulli

Damon L Printz

Brady J Johnson

Carol Xia

Calvin Liu

Marcus Mao

Social Studies(1st): 

Austin L Tedman

Kerry Joiner

Jolen A Martinez

Megana Tangella

 Speech/Debate(1st): 

Max Anderson

Bryce Broomham

Collin Cross

Avery Flessner

Reed Fraser

Ellie Hager

Elizabeth Hannah

Emma Holmes

Jacob Kalinke

Sonali Mehta

Abby Orr

Blake Parker

Nate Wutzke

Spelling and Vocabulary(1st): 

John Reaves

Nidhi Prazkuzhy

Noah Corbitt

Megan Tran-Olmstead