14 AHS students to compete at regional level
By Sandy Morris
Fourteen Albany High School students, many of them in multiple events, will compete in a total of 13 different contests at the Region 2-2A University Interscholastic League academic meet at Grayson College in Denison on Friday and Saturday, April 16-17.
“We have several students competing in more than one contest,” said UIL coordinator Rick Davis. “Tana Thompson qualified in five different writing events, and Luke Ivy is in four events.”
The regional contest begins on Friday with all of the writing events and continues on Saturday with all of the test categories.
Top regional winners and teams who place first through third in Denison will go on to the state contest, which will be held on April 29-May 1, with the location and schedule to be announced later.
Albany placed second overall at the district UIL meet held in Stamford on March 24, and students who placed in the top three in their events or were members of a first place team qualified for this weekend’s regional competition.
Students representing Albany at the regional meet include the following:
Sidney Bartee – Science, Mathematics Team
Jackson Chapman – Current Issues & Events
Susie Cormack – Editorial Writing
Sarah Cotter – News Writing
Carli Edgar – Number Sense Team
Morgan Garcia – Number Sense Team, Mathematics Team
Luke Ivy – Science, Top Biology Score, Top Physics Score, Mathematics, Copy Editing, Number Sense
Paige Picquet – Science Team
Corbin Roberts – Current Issues & Events
Sidney Russell – Spelling & Vocabulary
Tana Thompson – Ready Writing, News Writing, Feature Writing, Editorial Writing, Headline Writing
Hannah Trail – Mathematics, Editorial Writing, Science Team
Ella Webb – Current Issues & Events
William Webb – Current Issues & Events
Traveling to Denison with the team are journalism teacher Donnie Lucas, science instructor André Raymond, Ready Writing coach Jennifer Everitt, Current Issues and Events coach Glen Hill, and Davis, who sponsors mathematics and number sense.
