For the second time this year, the Mount Pleasant High School Academic UIL team brought home the first-place trophy. This time it was from the North Lamar Meet where the MPHS team beat 21 teams. They earned 355 points, 116 more than the second-place team from Princeton High School.

Mt. Pleasant took first place in Calculator Applications, Current Events, Journalism and Mathematics. The team placed second in Literary Criticism, Spelling and Science. Social Studies team placed third.

“I am so proud of these students and their coaches,” said MPHS Academic UIL Coordinator Regina Crouch. “They work extremely hard preparing for these meets. They not only work in class but after school as well.  It takes a lot of time and their efforts are paying off!”

Many students earned individual medals in addition to the team medals they won. Individual results in each category:

Calculator Applications (1st Place Team)
10th grade: Sanum Shahid 1st place, David Barboza 2nd place
12th grade:    Carlos Barboza 1st place, Daniel Hernandez 2nd place, Husban Shahid 3rd place
Overall: Carlos Barboza 1st place, Daniel Hernandez 2nd place, Husban Shahid 3rd place, Sanum Shahid 6th place

Current Events (1st place team)
Jacob Baker 2nd place

Journalism (1st place team with 14 of the 30 medals awarded)
Copy Editing: Eryn Armstrong 1st place, Rebecca Yox 4th place, Matthew Armstrong 6th place
Editorial Writing: Eryn Armstrong 1st place, Matthew Armstrong 6th place
Feature Writing: Eryn Armstrong 2nd place, Raegan Davis 5th place
Headlines: Matthew Armstrong 2nd place, Abby Sneed 3rd place, Eryn Armstrong 4th place, Connor Reese 5th place
News Writing: Raegan Davis 1st place, Eric Vasquez 3rd place, Connor Reese 5th place

Literary Criticism (2nd place team)
Team: Regan Ball, Abby Sneed, Rebecca Yox
Overall: Reagan Ball 3rd place

Math (1st place team)
10th grade: Jose Liera 1st place, David Barboza 2nd place
11th grade: Nathon Segovia 2nd place, Orlando Olivares 4th place
12th grade: Daniel Hernandez 1st place, Husban Shahid 2nd place, Carlos Barboza 3rd place
Overall: Jose Liera 1st place, Daniel Hernandez 2nd place, David Barboza 3rd place,
Husban Shahid 5th place, Carlos Barboza 6th place

Number Sense
12th grade: Daniel Hernandez 2nd place

Ready Writing:
Morgan Thurman 5th place, Harper Davis 6th place

Science (2nd place team)
10th grade: Jose Liera 1st Place, Tripp Hinton 3rd Place
11th grade Nathon Segovia 1st Place
12th grade Husban Shahid 5th Place
Overall: Nathon Segovia 2nd Place, Jose Liera 3rd Place

Social Studies (3rd place team)
Team: Aner Baltizar, Tyreesha Douglas, Enrique Martinez, Clarissa Santos
Overall: Clarissa Santos 4th place

Spelling (2nd place team)
Annie Le 3rd place, Rocio Hernandez 4th place, Ilse Vargas 5th place, Itzle Vargas 6th place, Itzamari Vargas 7th place, Rachel Sharp 8th place

Mount Pleasant High School will host a meet this Friday and Saturday. Thirty-two schools have registered for the meet.

Pictured: The MPHS Academic UIL Team