Academic meet to be held Tuesday
Twenty-one Albany High School students are entered in the District 8-2A University Interscholastic League academic meet scheduled for next Wednesday, March 26, at Hawley ISD, and although the local participants have placed well in previous showings, AHS UIL coordinator Rick Davis said Albany is not the front runner for overall high point this time around.
“I’m afraid that there are too many contests where we don’t have any participants for us to be able to win district,” Davis said. “My main goal next week is to see how many we can qualify to the regional meet.”
Davis expects quite a few local individuals and teams to advance to the Region 1 meet at Odessa College on April 12-13, including many members of the Journalism team.
He added that the Math, Spelling and Vocabulary, Current Issues, and Ready Writing participants have been working hard and also placed well at the most recent practice meet.
“Maybe that will be enough to pull it out for us,” said Davis.
Albany students are entered in several events including Computer Applications, Current Issues, Copy Editing, Editorial Writing, Feature Writing, Headline Writing, Mathematics, Number Sense, News Writing, Prose Interpretation, Ready Writing, Science, and Spelling and Vocabulary.
District 8-2A includes Albany, Cross Plains, Haskell, Hawley, Roscoe, and Stamford, and Davis expects some of those schools to be eligible to earn points in several contests, including several speaking events, that Albany students did not enter this year.
For students who place high enough at the regional meet next month, the academic state meet will be May 2-4 at the University of Texas Austin campus.
Representing Albany in Hawley next week will be Addison Asher, Max Balliew, Sidney Bartee, Aspen Box, Sarah Cotter, Braden Davis, Kade Everitt, Ty Everitt, Morgan Garcia, and Jillian Guinn.
Also entered at the district contest are Seth Hale, Luke Ivy, Alayna Koemel, Caroline Masters, Gregori Mikeska, Jaleigh Morales, Brooks Neece, Christopher Rivera, Taylor Scott, Tana Thompson, and Hannah Trail.
