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PSHS Earns 7th Consecutive Regional Academic Decathlon Championship Title
February 5, 2010
The Plano Senior High School Academic Decathlon Team captured its seventh consecutive regional championship this past weekend. The win qualifies the team for the state meet to be held February 26-28 in Houston. PSHS is currently ranked ninth in the state out of 40 teams that will attend the state meet. Also at the regional meet, teams from Plano East and Plano West ranked fifth and sixth, respectively. Plano East's team will also advance to state.
Plano ISD Team & Individual Results
Plano Senior High School
Regional Academic Decathlon Championship Team: Cindy Li, Julie Chang and Daniel Huang (A team); Yue Ding, Isabella Kuo and Taylor Roth (B team) and Shahid Ahmed, Stell Edling and Connor McCrorey (C team). Coaches are Bill Borowicz and Sheila Kolb.
Team Medals
Superquiz team - 3rd; Superquiz relay - 2nd
Individual Medals
| Honors Division |
Varsity Division |
Scholastic Division |
Cindy Li
Music – 1st
Economics – 2nd
Science – 3rd
Lang & Lit – 1st
Art – 1st
Superquiz
Individual – 1st
Overall Honors
Student – 1st
Julie Chang
Math -- 2nd
Economics – 1st
Science – 2nd
Lang & Lit. – 2nd
Essay – 3rd
Overall
Honors Student -2nd
Science – 2nd
Daniel Huang
Math – 1st
Economics – 2nd
Science – 1st
Overall Honors
Student – 3rd |
Shahid Ahmed
Economics – 1st
Lang & Lit. – 3rd
Essay – 1st
Speech – 2nd
Overall Varsity Student – 2nd
Stell Edling
Lang. & Lit. – 3rd
Essay – 2nd
Connor McCrorey
Math – 2nd
Lang. & Lit. – 2nd
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Yue Ding
Math – 3rd
Isabella Kuo
Music – 2nd
Superquiz
Individual – 2nd
Taylor Roth
Music – 2nd
Lang. & Lit. – 1st
Art – 3rd
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Plano East Senior High School
Nicole Shu, Crystal Chen, Jenny Chen, Richa Thakur, Brendon Lu, Sachein Sharma, Dwight Chacko, Joshua Burke, Amaris Laracuente, Sarah Frankovich (alternate). Coaches are Rex Howard and Jan Molepske.
Team Medal
Fifth Place Overall
| Honors Division |
Varsity Division |
Scholastic Division |
Nicole Shu
Music – 3rd
Super Quiz – 2nd
Crystal Chen
Economics – 3rd
Jenny Chen
Math – 3rd |
Richa Thakur
Math – 1st
Science – 1st
Economics – 3rd
Brendon Lu
Overall
Individual – 1st
Music – 1st
Super Quiz – 1st
Art – 1st
Math – 3rd
Language & Literature – 3rd
Sachein Sharma
Math – 3rd
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Dwight Chacko
Economics - 3rd
Joshua Burke
Essay - 3rd
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Plano West Senior High School
Plano West Teammates include Jennifer Jassawalla, Brian Sutton, Andrew Halcomb, Morgan Carmody, Kathleen Gaskins, Andrea Harrison, Hannah Kang, Nick Bhattacharya and Visakha Suresh. Ishita Madan and Eric Choi (alternates). Coaches are Shawn Coryell and Chance Harris.
Individual Medals
- Andrew Halcomb - Varsity Division - Science - 3rd
- Brian Sutton - Varsity Division - Math - 3rd
Regional Academic Decathlon Top Scoring Teams
- PSHS (42,483 points)
- Richardson Berkner (39,340 points)
- Rowlett (38,448 points)
- Garland (38,416 points)
- PESH (38,046 points)
- PWSH (35,441 points)
About Academic Decathlon
The Academic Decathlon® is a 10-event scholastic competition. Each high school enters a team of nine students: 3 “A” or honor students, 3 “B” or scholastic students, and 3 “C” or varsity students.
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