RELEASE DATE: January 25, 2007
Academic Decathlon teams from the five Mesquite ISD high schools competed in the Region 12 Academic Decathlon Meet and two, Dr. John D. Horn and Dr. Ralph H. Poteet high schools, earned the right to advance to the state meet. Horn won the large school division and Poteet, which finished third in the medium division, advances based upon its point total. Mesquite High School finished second and North Mesquite took third to complete the sweep of the large school division.
The regional met was held Jan. 19-20 at McKinney North High School and featured teams from across the Metroplex.
The JHHS Academic Decathlon team advances to the state competition for the fifth consecutive year. The team walked away with gold medals in Super Quiz Relay, Super Quiz Team written, and overall team score and took home 79 out of a possible 126 medals. The large school state finals are Feb 23-24 in Katy.
PHS took third place overall in its division. Highlights include a second place finish in the Super Quiz Relay and third place Super Quiz Overall. PHS students earned 17 medals. The medium school state finals are Feb. 23-24 in San Antonio. Both JHHS and PHS will compete for a chance to represent Mesquite ISD at the national finals in Hawaii.
The Academic Decathlon is designed to include students from all academic backgrounds. Each nine-member team consists of three “A” students, three “B” students and three “C” students. In addition to a seven-minute interview, a one-hour essay and two speeches (four minutes prepared and two minutes impromptu), written comprehensive exams are given in music, art, language/literature, mathematics, economics, (social) science, and the Super Quiz.
A complete list of Mesquite ISD winners follows:
North Mesquite High School
Olivia Webb
Gold—Language and Literature
Silver—Social Studies
Bronze—Art
Bronze—Economics
Bronze—Speech
Sarah Newton
Gold—Language and Literature
Gold—Music
Silver—Super Quiz
Gold—Essay
Robert Pottorff
Gold—Art
Bronze—Economics
Bronze—Super Quiz
David Edwards
Bronze—Math
Gold—Economics
Gold—Essay
Andrea Parr
Gold—Math
Ryan Mullowney
Silver—Economics
West Mesquite High School
Ashley Hernandez
Gold–Team highest scorer at the varsity level
Caleb Carrizales
Silver—Math
Marcus Omolaja
Gold— Team’s highest scorer at the scholastic level
Bronze—Language and Literature
Bronze—Music
Silver– – Interview
Sarah Browning
Gold—Highest scoring honor student on the team
Bronze— Interview
Silver – Speech
Mesquite High School
TEAM MEDALS
Bronze—Super Quiz Relay
Bronze—Super quiz Total
Silver—Overall
INDIVIDUAL MEDALS
Colin Pardue
Gold – Individual highest score
Gold – Art
Gold – Math
Gold – Social Science
Gold – Superquiz
Silver – Econ
Silver – Interview
Silver – Music
Silver – Language and Literature
Jessica Birchler
Gold – Individual High Score, Varsity Division
Gold – Music
Gold – Math
Gold – Art
Silver – Language and Literature
Bronze – Interview
Devin Sasser
Gold – Interview
Bronze – Social Science
Bronze – Speech
4th – Individual High Score, Scholastic Division
Christina Willingham
Silver – Interview
Bronze – Music
Brian Jacob
Bronze – Interview
John D. Horn High School
TEAM MEDALS
Gold – Super Quiz Relay
Gold – Super Quiz Team Written
Gold – Overall Team Score
INDIVIDUAL MEDALS
Meagan Martin
Bronze – Music
Gold – Social Studies
Silver – Language and Literature
Bronze – Art
Bronze – overall individual score, Varsity Division
Drew Sapundjieff
Bronze – Essay
Gold – Speech
Silver – Social Studies
Gold – Language and Literature
Silver – overall individual score, Varsity Division
Drew Johnson
Silver – Speech
Bronze – Language and Literature
Gold – Super Quiz individual
4th – overall individual score, Varsity Division
Zack Saucier
Silver – Speech
Bronze – Music
Bronze – Math
Silver – Social Studies
Bronze – Language and Literature
Silver – Art
Silver – overall individual score, Scholastic Division
Andrew Funderburgh
Bronze – Essay
Silver – Language and Literature
Silver – Super Quiz individual
Bronze – overall individual score, Scholastic Division
Casey Gilbert
Silver – Essay
Gold – Speech
Gold – Music
Gold – Economics
Gold –Social Studies
Gold – Language and Literature
Bronze – Art
Gold – Super Quiz individual
Gold – overall individual score, Scholastic Division
Alaina Zermeño
Silver – Essay
Gold – Interview
Silver – Speech
5th – overall individual score, Honors Division
Paulina Faundez
Bronze – Interview
Gold – Speech
Bronze – Language and Literature
Kim Villavicencio
Bronze – Essay
Bronze – Music
Bronze – Social Studies
Silver – Language and Literature
Silver – Art
Bronze – Super Quiz individual
Bronze – overall individual score, Honors Division
Poteet High School
Team Medals
Bronze – overall
Silver – Super Quiz Relay
Bronze – Super Quiz Overall
Individual Medals
Grant Hall
Bronze – Essay
Silver – Math
Bronze – Music
4th – Overall
Pearl Rajan
Gold – Math
Bronze – Music
Bronze – Super Quiz
4th – Overall
Nincy Mathew
Gold – Music
Gold – Economics
5th – Overall
Brent Spencer
Silver – Interview
Silver – Speech
Silver – Social Science
Gold – Language and Literature
Bronze – Art
Gold – Super Quiz
Gold – Overall
Patrick Lozano
Bronze – Math
Gold – Music
Bronze – Economics
5th – Overall
Final School Total
Large schools:
First – Horn
Second – Mesquite
Third – North Mesquite
Medium Schools:
Third – Poteet
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