UIL Academics places high in almost every event

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Margaret Edmonson

The UIL Academics team stands together while holding their awards on Saturday, April 2.

The UIL academic team swept the competition away at the district meet Saturday at Clemens High School.

The cumulative team took first place team awards in journalism, speech, number sense, science, math, spelling, social studies and computer science, holding the top position in every event.

Team members who won third place individual awards or higher will continue on to the regional meet. Individual awards include the following:

Accounting:

Davis Jones 3rd place, Samuel Chroniak 4th place

Calculator:

Jessica Lafond 5th place

Current Issues:

Bradie Dean 6th place

Computer Science:

Ethan Howell 1st, Matuesz Garstecki 2nd, Colt Hermesch 6th

Editorial Writing:

Keagan Miller 3rd, Rebecca Covington 4th

Feature Writing:

Keagan Miller 3rd, Erin Herndon 4th

Headline Writing:

Erin Herndon 1st, Keagan Miller 2nd, Emma Sipple 6th

Informative Speaking:

Danielle Payne 2nd, Julia Lafond 3rd, Sidney Clark 5th

LD Debate:

Emma Tharp 1st, Morghan Armenta 2nd, Calli Pessina 4th

Mathematics:

Ethan Howell 1st, Colt Hermesch 2ns

Number Sense:

Ross Stoutamyer 1st, Drew Howard 2nd, Colt Hermesch 3rd

News Writing:

Keagan Miller 1st, Emma Sipple 2nd, Erin Herndon 5th

Persuasive Speaking:

Dillon Brooks 2nd place, Cassandra Frazier 5th place

Poetry Interpretation:

Chris Nelson-Ferguson 2nd place

Prose Interpretation:

McKaelyn Clark 4th place, Melanie Rouvroy 5th place,Brandon Fross 6th place

Ready Writing:

Jacob Hedgpeth 5th place, Keagan Miller 6th place

Science:

Colt Hermesch 1st place, top Chemistry, top Physics, top Biology; Jacob Emmons 3rd place, Jacob Foster 5th place

Social Studies:

Jared Pauletti 2nd place, Bradie Dean 6th place

Spelling:

Branden Klar 2nd place, Abby Millard 3rd place, Alyssa Seibel 5th place, Serena Valero 6th place