The Mount Pleasant High School UIL Academic team continued its spring season on Friday and Saturday, February 9 and 10, at the Hallsville High School Tournament of Hearts featuring 28 schools from the East Texas area.

Individual results:

Calculator Applications (2nd place team)

10th grade: Julian Chancellor 6th

11th grade: Yahaira Piña 3rd, Sam Chappell 4th, Tanner Marshall 6th

12th grade: Nathaniel Martinez 1st, Kiara Rundles 4th

Overall: Nathaniel Martinez 2nd, Yahaira Piña 6th, Sam Chappell, Tanner Marshall

Mathematics (2nd place team)

10th grade: Julian Chancellor 5th

11th grade: Yahaira Piña 2nd, Sam Chappell 3rd, Gopi Amin 5th

12th grade: Nathaniel Martinez 1st

Overall: Nathaniel Martinez 2nd, Yahaira Piña, Sam Chappell, Julian Chancellor

Spelling (2nd place team) Brissia Alvarez 4th, Jenny Luna 6th

Lincoln Douglas Debate: Angelina Hernandez 5th

Ready Writing: Brissia Alvarez 2nd

Literary Criticism: Brissia Alvarez 6th

Social Studies: Estven Perez 3rd

Copy Editing: Brissia Alvarez 4th, Evie Hernadez 5th

Editorial Writing: Ana Ceballos 3rd, Celeste Landin 6th

Feature Writing: Jarely Esguerra 5th Noemy Dorantes 6th

The MPHS UIL Academic teams will travel to Sulphur Springs for the annual Judy Tipping Invitational Meet on February 16 and 17 as they continue to prepare for the district meet. The teams are coached by Gina Crouch (UIL Coordinator, Spelling, and Current Events), Osias Hernandez (Math, Calculator, and Computer Science), Gabrielle Robbins (Literary Criticism and Ready Writing), David Clark (Accounting and Social Studies), Lara Martin (Debate), John Whitten (Journalism), Kim Cox (Journalism), Larry Russell (Science), Randy Ballard (Number Sense), and Misty McCrumby (Extemp, Prose, and Poetry).

Pictured: members of the MPHS UIL Academic teams