The Wimberley High School UIL Academic Team dominated the District 27-4A Academic Meet, winning with a staggering 604 points — 342 points more than second place Fredericksburg High School.
In all, WHS came home with five team and eight individual victories from the meet, held on March 24–25 in Boerne. The UIL Academic Sweepstakes consists of oneact play, speech and debate events and academics. The total sweepstakes points were as follows: Wimberley 604, Fredericksburg 262, Boerne High School 244.5, Bandera High School, 239, Navarro High School 139, Davenport High School 99, Canyon Lake High School 89 and Judson Early College Academy 16.5.
The top-three individual finishers in each event advance to the Regional Academic Meet on April 21–22 at Texas A&M University’s campus in Corpus Christi. In addition, the first place team advances to the regional meet, as does the highest-scoring second place team in each event from each region as a wildcard entry. WHS will be represented by a total of 23 individual qualifiers and eight team qualifiers. (The computer science, math and number sense teams all finished second at district, and had the highest scores of all second place finishers in 4A-Region IV to qualify as wildcard teams.)
Full WHS results are listed below.
• Accounting (3rd Place Team): 2nd - Madeline Plant, 7th - Kate Westmoreland, 12th Ian Sowersby, 13th - Nate Riser
• Calculator Applications (4th Place Team): 10th - David Fraprie, 12th Ella Malone, 15th - Kate Westmoreland, 16th - Reid Leinneweber, 19th - Karina Navarro, 22nd - Maggie Moore
• Computer Science (2nd Place Team): 3rd - Aiden Alberston, 4th - Liam McLemore, 6th Aiden Parkerson, 13th - Isaiah Carrera, 15th - Marco Perez, 16th - Shepherd Carter
• Copy Editing: 4th Gage Trudeau, 6th - Alex Davenport
• Current Issues and Events (1st Place Team): 1st - John Moore, 2nd - Josh Bober, 3rd - Hyatt Romp, 4th - Bryce Phillips, 5th - Alex Caldwell, 6th Sammy Shelor
• Editorial: 5th Gage Trudeau
• Feature Writing: 2nd - Peyton Shaw, 4th - Eden Kruse, 6th - Alex Caldwell
• Headline Writing: 6th - Peyton Shaw
• Informative Speaking: 1st Josh Bober, 2nd - Alex Davenport, 4th - Chloe Swindle • Lincoln Douglas Debate: 2nd - Ella Fertitta, 5th - Sadie Osterhues, 6th - Sophia Vitela
• Literary Criticism: 3rd - Alex Davenport, 4th - Kathryn McKinney
• Mathematics (2nd Place Team): 5th - Joshua Hill, 8th - Jacob Mantsch, 10th - Kayla Pierce, 11th - Thomas Watson, 20th Reid Leinneweber, 22nd - Brennan Ramsey
• News Writing: 5th - Alex Caldwell, 6th - Elena Martin
• Number Sense (2nd Place Team): 4th - Tison Sames, 5th - Maddox Gonzales, 9th - Jack Boyle, 15th - Joseph Hill, 17th Thomas Watson, 19th - Maggie Moore
• Persuasive Speaking: 1st - Gage Trudeau, 2nd Kathryn McKinney, 6th - Sophia Vitela
• Poetry Interpretation: 1st - Macey Hollar, 2nd - Chloe Swindle, 3rd - Alex Davenport
• Prose Interpretation: 1st - Azula Hunter-Thiam, 3rd - Carys Bowling, 6th - Walker Williams
• Ready Writing: 1st - Josh Bober, 6th McKenzie Giesen
• Science (1st Place Team): 1st - Jacob Mantsch (top performer in Chemistry), 2nd - Kaitlyn Marinos (top performer in Biology), 4th - Kayla Pierce (top performer in Physics), 9th - Tyler Youens Social Studies (1st Place Team): 1st Samuel Crow, 3rd - Trinity Rivera, 4th - Chloe Thompson, 5th - Rachel Caldwell, 6th - John Moore, 7th - Alex Caldwell Spelling (1st Place Team): 2nd - Isis Kawas, 4th - Lydia Krause, 7th - Risa Espinoza, 8th (tie) - Ava Kroening, 16th - Maral Charyyeva
