The Wimberley High School UIL Academic Team has been named the runner-up in the overall school sweepstakes at the 4A-Region IV Academic Meet.
The meet was held April 21–22 at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi. At the competition, three Texan teams finished first in their events to qualify for the state meet. In addition, WHS has four individual event qualifiers who have advanced to the state contest.
The three advancing teams were Current Issues and Events (scoring team members were Alex Caldwell, Josh Bober, John Moore, and Hyatt Romp), Science (scoring team members were Jacob Mantsch, Kaitlyn Marinos, Kayla Pierce, and Tyler Youens), and Social Studies (scoring team members were Trinity Rivera, Samuel Crow, Chloe Thompson, and Rachel Caldwell).
Individual event qualifiers (top-three in their event at Regionals) were Josh Bober, who won Informative Speaking; Azula Hunter- Thiam, who won Prose Interpretation; Chloe Swindle, who finished second in Poetry Interpretation; and Peyton Shaw, who was third in Feature Writing.
Full results from the Region IV Meet are available online.
The Academic and Speech State Meet will be held on the University of Texas in Austin on Wednesday, May 17 through Thursday,
