|
|
|
Plano
Senior High School Captures
State Academic Decathlon Title!
February 27, 2006
Congratulations to Plano Senior High School which
captured the Academic Decathlon State Championship for the first
time in the
school's history!
Earning more than $23,000
in scholarships at the rigorous academic event, the PSHS team will
represent Texas at the National Academic
Decathlon competition to be held at the end of April in San Antonio.
Plano East and Plano West teams also put forth astounding effort.
Congratulations to all teammates and coaches.
Team
and Individual Medals
Plano Senior High School
PSHS Academic Decathlon State
Champions!
(Back, l-r) Coach Bill Borowicz and Teammates:
Aaditya Nagaraj, Jacob
Turner, Alvin Chen, and Coach Sheila Kolb; (Middle, l-r)
Diana Shen, Rebecca Chase, Lorelei Nguyen and Lisa Wang; and
(Front, l-r) Jenny Ding and Erin Yu.
- Overall Team - 1st 46,554 points out of 60,000
- Superquiz
Team - 1st (top 6 written and relay)
- Superquiz Relay - 1st
(all nine team members)
- Total Scholarships - $23,050
- 27 Individual medals; 27 team medals
Varsity Category
- Rebecca Chase
- Essay – 2nd
- Science – 2nd
- Language & Literature – 3rd
- Superquiz – 3rd
- Overall Varsity – 2nd
- Scholarship -- $3700
- Alvin Chen
- Essay – 2nd
- Scholarship -- $1200
- Lorelei Nguyen
- Language & Literature – 1st
- Scholarship -- $1200
Scholastic Category
- Aaditya Nagaraj
- Essay – 1st
- Math – 1st
- Science – 2nd
- Language & Literature – 2nd
- Overall Scholastic – 1st
- Scholarship -- $4700
- Diana Shen
- Essay – 1st
- Music – 2nd
- Economics – 3rd
- Overall Scholastic – 3rd
- Scholarship -- $2700
- Jacob Turner
- Economics – 1st
- Art – 3rd
- Superquiz – 3rd
- Overall Scholastic – 2nd
- Scholarship -- $4700
Honors Category
- Jenny Ding
- Superquiz – 3rd
- Overall Honors – 5th
- Scholarship -- $1950
- Lisa Wang
- Math – 3rd
- Language & Literature – 1st
- Scholarship -- $1200
- Erin Yu
- Music – 2nd
- Art – 2nd
- Overall Honors – 3rd
- Scholarship -- $2700
Plano East Senior High School
Plano East Team: (Back, l-r)
David Tsai, David Quigley, Brandt Gentry, Adam Kiehl and Adam Bayyouk;
(Middle, l-r) Coach Rex Howard, Apoorva Jain, Jason Smith and Coach
Jan Molepske; and (Front, l-r) Stephanie Allen, Samyuktha Anand
and Isha Joshi
Gold Medals for Top Scorers
- Varsity - Brandt Gentry
- Scholastic - Adam Kiehl
- Honors - David Tsai
Individual Medals and Honors
- Adam Kiehl - Silver Medal in Economics
- 10th in overall competition.
- 4th in both Music
and Math
- 6th in Art
- 9th in Renaissance History and
Anatomy & Physiology
- 10th in Essay
- Brandt Gentry
- 6th in Music
- 8th in Economics
- Samyuktha Anand
- 9th in Science
- 5th in
Math
- 9th in Speech
- Adam Bayyouk
- 7th in Science
- 9th in Interview
- Jason Smith
- Stephanie Allen
- David Tsai
- 8th in Art
- 9th in Math
- 7th in Economics
- 8th
in Economics
- David Quigley
- 8th in Music
- 10th in Math
- 4th in Economics
Other team members: Apoorva Jain and Isha Joshi (alternate)
Plano West Senior High School
Plano West Team: (Back, l-r) Nick
Naranjo, John Fernandez and Dan Mija, Harsh Vardhan; (Middle, l-r)
Coach Bill Stone,
Joe Welsch, Xuan Yue and Coach Shawn Coryell; and (Front, l-r)
Lisa Wang, Enhao Li and Lisa Li
- Enhao Li
- Silver Medal for Economics
- Gold
Medal for Top Team Scholastic Member
- Xuan Yue
- Dan Mija
- Gold Medal for Top
Team Honor Member
- John Fernandez
- Gold Medal for Top
Team Varsity Member
Top
10 State Teams
- PSHS 46554
- Holmes 44311
- Lubbock 43872
- Nimitz 43111
- King 42524
- Coppell 42195
- Creekview 41972
- Pearce 41671
- Rowlett 41387
- Marcus 41375
Related Link
|
|
|
|
