12 advance to regional UIL meet
A dozen Albany High students are advancing to the Region II Academic Meet on April 26-27 after placing in the top three at the District 10-2A Academic Meet in Anson last Wednesday.
Albany finished the district competition in second place with 353 points. Haskell won the meet with 404.5points,andStamford was third with 247 points.
Students placing in the top three places individually and the first place teams will advance to the Region 2 Academic Meet at Grayson College in Denison.
Journalism students won the journalism team title, advancing in all five contests. Senior Robyn Trail is moving on to regional in all five journalism events, while senior Sidney Russell will compete in four of the five.
“Weonlyhadfourpeople competing in our events, but three of them are advancing to the regional meet in 11 of the 15 spots that move on,” journalism sponsor Donnie Lucas. “It is also really rare to have anyone advancing in all five or even four contests.”
While they do not compete as a team, the journalism students earned a total of 162 points to bring hometheJournalismTeam trophy and contribute to the overall point tally.
High school UIL coordinator Rick Davis said that the school had six students advancelastyear,doubling the number this year.
“The kids did a great job,” Davis said. “I wasn’t expecting to be the district runner-up for the entire meet since we had several contests without any competitors such as the speaking events.”
Albany also won the computer science team title, with two members placing first and second which led the team to the championship as well.
This is just the second year forAlbany to compete in computer science in several years. The event is sponsored by Albany ISD technology director Matthew Howard.
Albany also brought home the Social Studies team championship with two members of the team placing first and third individually.
Individual and team results at the district meet are as follows:
Copy Editing – 1. Sidney Russell. 2. Robyn Trail. 3. Avery Everitt.
News Writing – 1. Robyn Trail. 2. Sidney Russell. 4. Avery Everitt.
FeatureWriting – 1. Sidney Russell. 2. Robyn Trail. 4. Avery Everitt.
Editorial Writing – 2. Avery Everitt.3.RobynTrail.4.Sidney Russell.
Headline Writing – 1. Robyn Trail. 3. Sidney Russell.
Ready Writing – 2. Holden Sanchez. 4. Jonathan Coody.
Computer Science – 1. Holden Sanchez. 2. Kolt Koemel.
1st Place Team, Sanchez, Koemel, Adrian Wren, Chase McDaniel.
CurrentIssues&Events –1. John Birkla.
2nd place team – Birkla,LandonPicquet,Landon Kreitler and Jayce Tinkle.
Calculator – 4. Kolton Koemel.
Science – 2. Jonathan Coody.5.JohnBirkla.
1st place team – Coody, Birkla, Landon Picquet, Landon Kreitler.
Top Biology Score – 1. Jonathan Coody.2.JohnBirkla.
TopPhysics Score – 2. Landon Picquet.
Social Studies – 1. John Birkla. 3. Jayce Tinkle.
1stplace team – Birkla, Tinkla, Landon Kreitler.
Spelling – 5. Ashley Sanchez.
Places 1-3 advance to Regional Meet. Fourth place serves as alternate. Only first place teams advance.
The top three placing individuals and the top teams at the regional meet will advance to the State UIL Academic Meet on May 15-17 on the UT campus in Austin.
