The UIL academic team took sweepstakes at the Texas Tech “March Madness” meet on March 1. This was the final practice meet before district competition on March 26 in Monahans.
In accounting, senior Isaac Neudorf was second, and senior Nathen Camacho was third.
In calculator applications, senior Jack Chen was sixth.
In 12th grade calculator applications, Chen was first, senior Peyton Casey was second, senior Geydis Cuesta Rodriguez took third and senior Grace Howard was sixth.
In copyediting, sophomore Anaiah Beydoun was first, and junior Melissa Gutierrez Tarango was fourth.
In current issues and events, senior Ethan Salazar was second, while sophomore Cooper Sales took fifth.
In editorial writing, sophomore Mattie Hice was first.
In feature writing, Gutierrez Tarango was third, while Hice took fifth.
In headline writing, Hice was second and Gutierrez Tarango was third.
In literary criticism, junior Serena Wiebe was first, Beydoun took fourth and junior Tristan Goodwin was fifth.
In mathematics, junior EvaThiessen was first overall, while Chen was second and senior Olivia Hicks took fifth.
In 12th grade mathematics, Chen was first and Hicks was second, while Cuesta Rodriguez took fourth.
In 11th grade mathematics, Thiessen was first.
In 10th grade mathematics, sophomore Jaxon Hand was fourth.
In news writing, Beydoun was first, while Gutierrez Tarango took third.
In number sense, Chen took first overall. while Thiessen was third.
In 12th grade number sense, Chen took first.
In 11th grade number sense, Thiessen was second.
In 10th grade number sense, sophomore Sophie Guenther was third, while sophomore Mason Rochelle took fifth.
In ready writing, freshman Hadassah Wiebe was sixth.
In science, Cuesta Rodriguez took fourth overall.
In 12th grade science, Cuesta Rodriguez was second.
In ninth grade science, H. Wiebe took third.
In team competition, SHS took first overall in literary criticism, number sense, mathematics and journalism.