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PSHS
Academic Decathlon Team Captures Regional Championship
February 2, 2006
Congratulations to the Plano Senior High School Academic Decathlon
Team, which captured first place at the regional competition
held in late January, advancing to the
state event to be held February 24-26 in Aldine. The
students earned 27 team medals and 25 individual medals.
Congratulations also go to the Plano East and
Plano West senior high school teams which
ranked 7th and 9th place, respectively, also advancing
to the state competition.
Regional Event Medals by School
Plano Senior High School (Regional Champions)
Rebecca Chase, Alvin Chen, Lorelei Nguyen, Aaditya Nagaraj, Diana
Shen, Jacob Turner, Jenny Ding, Lisa Wang, Erin Yu. Coaches
- Sheila Kolb and Bill Borowicz
Varsity Category
- Rebecca Chase - Overall Varsity Student – 1st
Math - 1st, Music - 1st, Economics - 1st, Science - 1st,
Language and Literature - 1st, Art - 2nd, Essay - 1st
- Alvin
Chen - Overall Varsity Student - 3rd, Math - 1st; Economics - 2nd
Scholastic Category
- Aaditya Nagaraj - Math - 1st
- Diana Shen - Overall Scholastic Student-
3rd; Music - 2nd;
Language and Literature - 2nd; Art - 1st;
Speech - 1st
- Jacob Turner - Essay - 3rd; Speech - 2nd
Honors Category
- Erin Yu - Overall Honors Student – 2nd
Math - 3rd, Music - 3rd, Economics - 3rd, Language
and Literature - 1st
- Lisa Wang - Art - 1st
Plano East Senior High School
David Quigley, David Tsai, Stephanie Allen, Adam Kiehl, Apoorva Jain,
Jason Smith, Adam Bayyouk, Samyuktha Anand, Brandt
Gentry. Coaches - Rex Howard and Jan Molepske
Individual Medals
- David Tsai - Math / gold
- David Quigley - Math /
silver, Economics / silver
- Adam Kiehl - Economic
/ silver, Music / silver
- Samyuktha Anand - Speech
/ Gold
Plano West Senior High School
Harsh Vardhan, Dan Mija, Lisa Li, Xuan Yue,
Enhao Li, Lisa Wang, John Fernandez, Nick Naranjo
and Joe Welsch. Coaches - Shawn Coryell and Bill Stone
Individual Medals
- John Fernandez
3rd place essay, 3rd place Economics, 2nd place Math,
Varsity Team Medal
- Enhao Li
2nd place Art, 3rd Economics, 2nd Math
- Xuan Yue
3rd Place Speech, 2nd Place Interview
- Lisa Li
1st Place Interview
About Academic Decathlon
Academic Decathlon is a national competition that provides an opportunity
for high school students to experience the challenges
of rigorous academic competition in 10 academic events: speech, interview,
essay,
super quiz, language and literature, economics, art,
music, social science and math. Competition levels include district,
regional, state
and national.
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