SSHS UIL Academic Team Wins Sweepstakes at Whitehouse Meet

The UIL academic team attended the Whitehouse UIL Invitational this past weekend and returned with the overall sweepstakes trophy.  The contest took place over two days, with L-D Debate, C-X Debate, and Ready Writing being held on Friday evening and the remainder of the contests conducted on Saturday.

In L-D Debate, Corban Philo won 2^nd place, and Noah Hammons won 4^th place.

In C-X Debate, the team of Sean Allemang and Joshua Robertson won 1^st place, and the team of Dakota Soles and Felipe Alba won 3^rd place. Catherine Knotek won top speaker.

Kayla Overly coaches both L-D and C-X debate.

In Computer Applications, Dylan Joiner won 3^rd place, and Raynie Hooten won 4^th place.

Ruston Pennington coachs the Computer Applications contest.

In Ready Writing, Steven Payne won 1^st place, Jaspyn Johnson won 2^nd place, Lydia Burleson won 3^rd place, Keigan Lobin won 4^th place, Lainey Whittle won 5^th place, and Breana Wooten won 6^th place.

In Spelling and Vocabulary, Lydia Burleson won 1^st place with a perfect score, Carson McIllwain won 2^nd place, Mandy Eckhardt won 3^rd place, Chase Charlton won 4^th place, and Emily Johnson won 5^th place.  The team won 1^st place.

In Literary Criticism, Patricia Parks won 1^st place, and Chloe Ross won 2^nd place. They, along with Lucia Yanez, won 1^st place team. Gail Herman coachs the Ready Writing, Spelling and Vocabulary, and Literary Criticism competitiors.

In Current Issues and Events, Christian Diaz-Deleon won 2^nd place, Evan Ost won 3^rd place, and Brayden Fisher won 7^th place. The team placed 1^st overall.

In Social Studies, Andrew Foster won 1^st place, and Felipe Alba won 2^nd place. Brayden Fisher completed the 1^st place team. Beth Grafton coachs both Current Issues and Events and Social Studies.

In Number Sense, Austin Reyes won 2^nd place, and Rudy Perez won 3^rd place.

In Calculator Applications, Rudy Perez won 2^nd place along with top Junior for his score, Naimishaba Parmar won 4^th place, and Austin Reyes won 6^th place.  The team won 1^st place overall. Gerald Grafton coachs both Number Sense and Calculator Applications.

In the journalism events, Steven Payne won 2^nd place in Headline Writing, and Patricia Parks won 6^th place.  In Copy Editing, Steven Payne won 3^rd place, and Skylar Shumate won 5^th place. Steven Payne won 3^rd place in both News Writing and Feature writing. In Editorial Writing, Patricia Parks won 2^nd place, Steven Payne won 3^rd place, and Lili Gallagos won 6^th place. The team earned the 1^st overall journalism award. Brandon Nelson is the journalism coach.

In Computer Science, Sean Allemang won 1^st place, Trenton Brock won 2^nd place, Mauro Basio won 4^th place, and Timothy Charlton won 6^th place individually.  Winning 1^st place team were Allemang, Brock, and Tim Charlton.  Winning 2^nd place team were Basio, Austin Reyes, and Joshua Synder. Gina Wilder sponsors Computer Science and serves as the UIL coordinator for SSHS.