When you put sporting events, the Royal Livestock Show, and UIL Academic District all in one week, our students and coaches rise to the occasion. Many UIL Academics team members competed in multiple activities and were able to help bring home recognitions for our team.
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Monday started the week off in Needville with our Literary Criticism team winning first place in district. The week was just the start for horticulture competitor and senior Vladimir Moreno. His 3rd place finish in Literary Criticism was followed by competitions in Headline Writing on Thursday and competitions in Number Sense, Calculator Applications, and Mathematics on Friday. Vladimir will represent our school at Regionals in Corpus Christi competing in not only Literary Criticism but also Calculator Applications, and Mathematics.
Junior Danahe Alcantar spent Wednesday night at a tennis tournament until after 11 PM and then was up for a 6:30 AM departure for journalism contests. As a first-time competitor, she brought home medals in Feature Writing and News Writing. She qualified for regional competition in news writing as the first alternate with a 4th place finish.
The stories of success are endless. From personal bests by science team members like junior Asahn Antonio, a fifth place finish in Poetry Interpretation by senior Cynthia Rivera, and first-time competitor and placer in two events- junior Monica Aguinaga.
In all, our 34 competitors had 13 members qualify for Regionals in a total of 24 competitions. Our journalism students compete individually but were able to, when combined, bring home the journalism team award for a second year in a row. This year our district team placed 3rd overall with a huge gap between our total points of 365 and the 4th place school’s score of 135.
The successes and growth of our team comes from the continued hard work of our students and also our coaches, including Mr. Ivan Arteaga, Dr. Enos Inniss, Mrs. Lisa Inniss, Mr. Robert Jones, Mr. Johnathon Venable, Mrs. Veronica Webb, volunteer coach Ms. Laray Odum, and volunteer coach Mr. Junior McKay. Practices began in October after we returned from the Student Activities Conference in Austin and continue on as we prepare for Regionals and beyond.
Congratulations to our entire District Team:
L-D Debate
- Gabriel Velasquez
Literary Criticism, 1st place team
- Alexcia Garcia, 1st
- Isabell Bishop, 2nd
- Vladimir Moreno, 3rd
- Zunaira Noman, 5th
Number Sense, 2nd place team
- Leonardo Robles-Lara, 3rd
- Vladimir Moreno, 6th
- Jorge Aguinaga
- Litzie Gonzalez
Ready Writing
- Eleanor Recinos, 3rd
- Nancy Cruz
- Gabriel Velasquez
Calculator Applications, 1st place team
- Leonardo Robles-Lara, 1st
- Roberto Montalvo, 2nd
- Monica Aguinaga, 3rd
- Katia Mendoza, 4th
- Vladimir Moreno
Poetry Interpretation
- Cynthia Rivera, 5th
- Maria Melendez
Computer Applications
- Johnathan Kosmalski, 4th
- Kevin Martinez, 5th
- Hassia Camacho, 6th
- Skyler Bartels
Accounting, 2nd place team
- Ian Arteaga, 5th
- Monica Aguinaga, 6th
- Roberto Montalvo
Spelling & Vocabulary, 2nd place team
- Stephanie De La Rosa, 4th
- Raychel Mayes, 6th
- Zunaira Noman
- Zariya Scott
- Jesus Rico
Current Issues, 2nd place team
- Isabell Bishop, 5th
- Ian Arteaga, 6th
- Isaac Martinez
- Demarys Torres
- Zunaira Noman
- Zariya Scott
Science
- Asahn Antonio
- Luis Diaz
- David Guerrero
- Jenna Johnson
- Isaac Martinez
- Leonardo Robles-Lara
Social Studies
- Ian Arteaga
- Max Arteaga
- Nancy Cruz
- Erick Robledo
- Jenna Johnson
- Demarys Torres
Mathematics, 1st place team
- Leonardo Robles-Lara, 1st
- Vladimir Moreno, 4th
- Roberto Montalvo, 6th
- Stephanie De La Rosa
- Litzie Gonzalez
- Gabriel Velasquez
Journalism Team, 1st place
News Writing
- Alexcia Garcia, 1st
- Eleanor Recinos, 3rd
- Danahe Alcantar, 4th
- Katelyn Rodriguez
Feature Writing
- Alexcia Garcia, 1st
- Danahe Alcantar, 5th
- Eleanor Recinos
- Stephanie De La Rosa
Editorial Writing
- Alexcia Garcia, 1st
- Eleanor Recinos, 2nd
- Danahe Alcantar
- Isaac Martinez
- Demarys Torres
Headline Writing
- Isaac Martinez, 6th
- Vladimir Moreno
- Katelyn Rodriguez
- Danahe Alcantar
Copy Editing
- Katia Mendoza, 2nd
- Ian Arteaga
- Alexcia Garcia
- Raychel Mayes
- Gabriel Velasquez