The UIL academics team clinched sweepstakes for District 26-5A on April 6 while sending more than a dozen scholars to region on April 27 at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
The district winning performances of the cross-examination debate team and the one-act play “Iphigenia” set up rest of the team with victories heading into Saturday’s contests.
James Berry gets some help with his makeup from technical theater director James Black before a rehearsal for the one-act play “Iphigenia.” The cast and crew are headed to area after winning district and bidistrict.
The journalism team of Bethany Mann, Alex Whelchel and Dale Hodge continued the program’s 10-year district title streak. Mann and Whelchel battled for the top two spots in news, feature, editorial, headline and copy editing while Hodge placed third in headline and in the top six in editorial and news.
Trajan Falk and Thomas Barton led the science team to a second place finish. Falk took the top score in physics and second in chemistry, and Barton had the third highest score in biology.
In speech events, Grace Silvers took home gold in poetry interpretation as well as Wilson Smith in prose. Rowen Hamilton placed third in Lincoln Douglas debate and helped set the pace for the speech team’s second place.
Computer Science
5th David Garcia
Copy Editing
1st Alex Whelchel
2nd Bethany Mann
Editorial
1st Bethany Mann
2nd Alex Whelchel
6th Dale Hodge
Feature Writing
1st Bethany Mann
2nd Alex Whelchel
Headline Writing
1st Bethany Mann
3rd Dale Hodge
4th Alex Whelchel
Informative Speaking
4th Bella Munoz
5th Olivia Diaz
Lincoln Douglas Debate
3rd Rowen Hamilton
Mathematics
3rd Thomas Barton
News Writing
1st Alex Whelchel
2nd Bethany Mann
4th Dale Hodge
Number Sense
3rd Trajan Falk
Persuasive Speaking
6th Hailey Gutzweiler
Poetry Interpretation
1st Grace Silvers
Prose Interpretation
1st Wilson Smith
3rd Mariela Cuellar
Ready Writing
3rd Nayeli Garcia
Science
2nd Trajan Falk
3rd Thomas Barton
Spelling
4th Logan Breen
Accounting team placement
3rd Comal Smithson Valley
Calculator Applications team placement
4th Comal Smithson Valley
Computer Science team placement
2nd Comal Smithson Valley
Literary Criticism team placement
4th Comal Smithson Valley
Mathematics team placement
2nd Comal Smithson Valley
Number Sense team placement
2nd Comal Smithson Valley
Science team placement
2nd Comal Smithson Valley
Social Studies team placement
4th Comal Smithson Valley
Journalism team placement
1st Comal Smithson Valley
Speech team placement
2nd Comal Smithson Valley
Science top scorers
Biology top scorer
3rd Thomas Barton
Chemistry top scorers
2nd Trajan Falk
Physics top scorers
1st Trajan Falk
Cross Examination
1st Smithson Valley
One-act play
1st Smithson Valley
