The Mount Pleasant High School UIL Academic team opened its season on Saturday, October 17, hosting the Fall Tiger Classic on the MPHS campus. The annual event is a fund raiser for the MPHS Academic teams and helps to fund their travel to events throughout the year. In all, seventeen schools from our local area participated.

Individual results:

Current Events (1st place team): Declan O’Quinn 1st, Ian Crockett 6th, Samuel Carroll

Speech Team (1st place team):

Cross Examination Debate – Isabella Oliva and Kenya Rosales 3rd

Congressional Debate – Isaac Hernandez 4th

Informative Extemp – Christian Martinez 2nd

Persuasive Extemp Wyatt Adkins 2nd

Prose Kaytlynn Sims 2nd

Poetry Jayanna Townlin-Crow 2nd, Christian Martinez 3rd

Spelling (2nd place team) Luke Brown 3rd, Juliet Luna 6th

Social Studies (2nd place team) Eduardo Torres 4th, Adriana Hipolito 6th, Declan O’Quinn

Calculator Applications

10th grade: Jake Anderson 5th

11th grade: Jayden Baker 4th, Lynndsie Phan 6th

12th grade: Karen Sandate 4th

Number Sense

10th grade: Josiah Caballero 2nd, Josue Aguilar 5th, Sebastian Carreon 6th

12th grade: Karen Sandate 5th

Science: Erick Torres 6th

Literary Criticism: Zoei Craig 5th

Journalism Headlines: Sage Jordan 6th

Journalism Editorial: Zoei Craig 3rd

Next up for the full MPHS UIL Academic team is the Walk the Plank Invitational at Pine Tree on November 7. The teams are coached by Gina Crouch, Osias Hernandez, Jack Jones, Shelby Criss, Joel Whitaker, John Whitten, Kim Cox, Larry Russell, Randy Ballard, and Britney Lunsford.

Pictured: members of the 2026-2027 MPHS UIL Academic teams