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Twenty THS students advanced to the UIL Academic Regional Meet in Corpus Christi April 26-27 and competed well against 52 schools total achieving 4th Place Overall, 3rd Place Speech Team and 1st Place-Champion-Journalism Team.

Placing at Regional and advancing on to the UIL Academic State Meet in Austin on May 14 are:

Mathew Martin - 3rd Place - Computer Science
Samuel Davis -
1st Place - Editorial
1st Place - News Writing
5th Place - Copy Editing - Alternate to State
Dakota Johnson -
2nd Place - Editorial
3rd Place - News Writing
Sarah Laurence - 3rd Place - Feature Writing
Aiden Epperson - 2nd Place - News Writing
Kayla Noren - 6th Place - Computer Applications - Alternate to State
Ben Schmidt - 4th Place - Headline Writing - Alternate to State
Jillian Hernandez -
5th Place - Prose Interpretation - Alternate to State
6th Place - Informative Speaking - Alternate to State
Ethan Dahl - 5th Place - Lincoln Douglas Debate - Alternate to State

Click Here for all individual and team results - 2023-2024 Academic results - 2A - Region 4 (District 27) as they will be posted online once finalized and released by tournament management

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The UIL Academic teams made a strong showing at the District Meet earning runner up in overall points. Students competed in 24 academic events including math, science, computer science, social studies, writing, speaking and theater. Twenty students advance to the Regional Meet that will be in Corpus Christi April 26-27.

Click Here for all individual and team results - 2A - 27

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CX Cross Examination -
2nd Place - Payton Gillmore & Samuel Davis

Lincoln Douglas Debate-
1st Place-Ethan Dahl
3rd Place-Asa Gibbs
4th Place- Deakin Horacek
5th Place-Jennifer Denning

Speech Team -
2nd Place Team-Thrall

One Act Play -
3rd Place-District and 6th Place-BiDistrict

Accounting -
3rd Place-Payton Gillmore - Advance to Regional
6th Place-Jesus Garcia
2nd Place Team-Thrall

Calculator Applications -
6th Place-Kayla Noren

Computer Applications -
2nd Place-Jesus Garcia - Advance to Regional
3rd Place-Kayla Noren - Advance to Regional
5th Place-Hannah Price

Computer Science -
1st Place-Mathew Martin - Advance to Regional
2nd Place-Isom Slone - Advance to Regional
4th Place-Edward Brown
1st Place Team-Thrall

Current Issues and Events -
2nd Place-Payton Gillmore - Advance to Regional

Informative Speaking -
1st Place-Jillian Hernandez - Advance to Regional
5th Place-Sarah Loeve

Literary Criticism -
4th Place-Arabella Cavender
5th Place-Samuel Davis

Mathematics -
4th Place-Patrick Zieschang
5th Place-Hannah Price

Number Sense -
2nd Place-Payton Gillmore - Advance to Regional
4th Place Tie-Patrick Zieschang

Persuasive Speaking -
1st Place-Michael Michala - Advance to Regional
2nd Place-Avery Koonce - Advance to Regional
6th Place-Kiaya Valdez

Poetry Interpretation -
3rd Place-Kiaya Valdez - Advance to Regional
4th Place-Avery Koonce
6th Place-Valeria Perez

Prose Interpretation -
1st Place-Jillian Hernandez - Advance to Regional
4th Place-Johanna Valchar

Science -
6th Place Tie-Levi Randig

Social Studies -
2nd Place-Carson Ball - Advance to Regional
5th Place-Streeter Chandler

Spelling -
5th Place-Samuel Davis

Writing Events -

Copy Editing

Editorial

Feature Writing

Headline Writing

News Writing

Ready Writing

2nd Place-Samuel Davis
- Advance to Regional

1st Place-Samuel Davis
- Advance to Regional

1st Place-Ava Finch
- Advance to Regional

1st Place-Sarah Laurence
- Advance to Regional

1st Place-Samuel Davis
- Advance to Regional

5th Place-Megan Johnson

3rd Place-Aiden Epperson
- Advance to Regional

2nd Place-Dakota Johnson
- Advance to Regional

2nd Place-Sarah Laurence
- Advance to Regional

2nd Place-Ben Schmidt
- Advance to Regional

2nd Place-Dakota Johnson
- Advance to Regional

5th Place-Ava Finch

5th Place-Dakota Johnson

3rd Place-Aiden Epperson
- Advance to Regional

Journalism Team -
1st Place Team - Thrall