PHS students advance to UIL Academic Regional Competition

Posted Date: 04/18/2016

By Tim Taylor

Paris High won two individual events and one team event at the this year’s District 15-4A UIL Academic Spring Meet held at Texarkana College and the Region 8 Educational Service Center in Pittsburg.

The top three individual event winners qualify to advance to the Region 2-4A UIL Academic Spring Meet on Saturday, April 23, at Texas A&M-Commerce.  Paris finished in fourth place overall.  Atlanta won the team chase.

The majority of Paris points was provided by the regional qualifying calculator applications team, led by a 1-2-4 finish from sophomore Anna Floyd, junior Chelsea Savage, and junior Matt Cochran.  Sophomore Erica Cole won the spelling and vocabulary event.  Other regional qualifiers were sophomore Meghan Lamberson (second in feature writing), freshman Quinn Andrews (third in computer applications), and senior Shreya Singh (third in L-D Debate).

PHS Results (regional qualifiers in italics)

· Team Totals: Atlanta 497.5, North Lamar 422, Pleasant Grove 190, Paris 167, Liberty-Eylau 110, Pittsburg 54.5

· Accounting: 5. Sharvionna Yates

· Calculator Applications: 1. Anna Floyd, 2. Chelsea Savage, 4. Matt Cochran

· Computer Applications: 3. Quinn Andrews

· Computer Science: 4. Nicholas Vasilakoupolos

· Feature Writing: 2. Meghan Lamberson, 6. Lilly Lewis

· Lincoln Douglas Debate: 3. Shreya Singh

· Literary Criticism: 6. Rachel Young

· Mathematics: 4. Matt Cochran

· News Writing: 4. Meghan Lamberson, 5. Lilly Lewis

· Prose Interpretation: 5. Josephina Mata

· Spelling and Vocabulary: 1. Erica Cole

· Calculator Applications Team: 1. Paris

· Computer Science Team: 2. Paris

· One Act Play: 4. Paris

UIL Regional Competition Qualifiers

Left to Right: Shreya Singh, Matt Cochran, Meghan Lamberson, Justice Flowers, Erica Cole, Chelsea Savage, Anna Floyd  Not Pictured: Quinn Andrews

PHS UIL Academic Team

First Row  Left to Right: Alyssa Penny,  Rios Belicia, Shreya Singh, Anna Floyd, Romy Newberry, Emma Napier, Meghan Lamberson. Josephina Mata, Shelby Wilson, Justice Flowers, Andria Gentry, Erica Cole    Middle Row:  Enrique Dolar, Matt Cochran, D.J. Samuels, Kizen Hogue, Rachel Young, WHO IS NEXT Lilly Lewis, Nicole Hawkes, Nick Reed, Codi Clark, Sharvionna Yates, Brenden Henry, Chelsea Savage, Graham Bain, Muriel Allen    Back Row:  Charles Kennedy, Nicholas Vasilakoupolos,Zachary De La Garza, Dalton Kee    Not Pictured: Quinn Andrews, Patxsonnia Brown, Mason Hevron, Alexis Willison, Bryan Torres

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