Last week, a number of our Vernon High School students participated in the District 7-3A UIL Academic & Literary Meet. We had two individuals advance to regionals, and two event teams finished second and will serve as alternates to the regional meet. We also had three individuals finish fourth and will serve as the first alternate in their events.
In the overall team standings, VHS improved its point total more than 50 points from last year, earning 128 points to finish fifth in the Overall School Sweepstakes. The Speech Team finished second, and the Journalism Team finished fourth in their team competition.
Qualifying for the Class 3A Region 1 UIL Academic & Literary Meet as individuals were Lily Beam and Logan Wehrwein. The top 3 individuals in each event move on to regionals. Logan finished second in Lincoln-Douglas Debate, while Lily was third in Mathematics.
The first-place team in each event advances to regionals and VHS just missed out in two events. The Literary Criticism team of Mindee Wiebe, Gabbi Hernandez, A.J. Ragland, and Flor Ortega finished second, as did the Mathematics team of Lily Beam, Bowie Eakin, Joseph Menendez Garcia, and Claire Mayo.
Below is a list of our event teams showing how the team placed, team members and where they placed in the individual standings:
-- Mathematics – 2nd place
Lily Beam, 3rd
Bowie Eakin, 8th
Joseph Menendez Garcia, 15th
Claire Mayo, 16th
-- Literary Criticism – 2nd place
Mindee Wiebe, 5th
Gabbi Hernandez, 7th
A.J. Ragland, 8th
Flor Ortega, 9th
-- Calculator Applications – 3rd place
Myka Lopez, 10th
Joselyn Fuentes, 12th
Guadalupe L. Uribe Munoz, 13th
Brandon Juarez, 14th
-- Computer Science – 3rd place
Timothy McLaughlin, 6th
Brandon Juarez, 8th
Aung Men, 9th
Kenneth Cordero, 11th
-- Science – 4th place
Aidan Hernandez, 5th
Madyson Zamora Raines, 10th
Aye Thuzar Khine, 13th
Gabriel Juarez, 19th
Aye Ham, 25th
Gabbi Hernandez, 29th
-- Number Sense
Rodrigo Olivas, 11th
Bowie Eakin, 12th
Claire Mayo, 13th
-- Spelling & Vocabulary
Sriram Kadiyala, 11th
Christian Perez, 13th
Tristan Arellanos, 18th
-- Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Logan Wehrwein, 2nd
Zachary Sanchez, 4th
-- Informative Extemporary Speaking
Logan Luster, 4th
Garrett Munson, 6th
-- News Writing
Flor Ortega, 4th
-- Ready Writing
Mindee Wiebe, 5th
-- Poetry
Nayeli Calvillo, 6th
-- Current Events
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