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Students compete well at Haskell

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Albany High School students competed at the Haskell Pow Wow, a University Interscholastic League academic invitational meet, on Saturday, Jan. 26, and several Albany students brought home individual medals. In addition, Albany journalism students won the first place team plaque. 

“The students did great!” Rick Davis, UIL coordinator said. “I think we are well on our way to another successful year in UIL academics.”

Albany was the top journalism team with 93 points. Coleman was the second high journalism team with 76, and Guthrie took third with 53.

Haskell garnered more total points than any of the other schools with 243, Coleman was second with 233, Guthrie was third with 144, and Albany fourth at 136 points. 

Also at the event were Aspermont, Cisco, Hermleigh, Jayton, Lueders-Avoca, Munday, Olney, Quanah, and Stamford.

Individual Winners

Sophomore Sidney Bartee placed first in Ready Writing, second in Science, and had the Top Biology Score.

Addison Asher won first place in a new Copy Editing event and was also first in News Writing. The junior journalism student also placed fourth in Headline Writing and sixth in Feature Writing.

Junior Alayna Koemel took first in Editorial Writing and third in News Writing.

Caroline Masters, a senior, earned third in Prose Interpretation.

Tana Thompson placed fifth in Copy Editing and the sophomore also took sixth in Headline Writing.

Junior Jaleigh Morales was sixth in Spelling and Vocabulary.

Also entered at Haskell were Max Balliew, Jackson Chapman, Kade Everitt, Morgan Garcia, Seth Hale, Chris Rivera, Taylor Scott, Hannah Trail, and William Webb.

Upcoming Events

Davis is hopeful that a larger number of students will be able to attend a second practice meet that will be hosted by Stamford on Feb. 23. 

The district meet is scheduled for Tuesday, March 26, in Hawley.  

“I hate to have the district meet on a Tuesday, because that is when we have baseball and softball games,” said Davis. “But the coaches know about the UIL meet and students ball players should still be able to participate.”

The organizers at Hawley are starting the district meet early that morning, so student athletes should be done with most of the events in plenty of time to travel to their games. 

The regional UIL academic meet is in Odessa on April 13-14, and the state meet will be in Austin on May 2-4.