The Mount Pleasant High School UIL Academic team completed its final push toward district at the Judy Tipping Memorial UIL Invitational Meet at Sulphur Springs High School on February 16-17. This was the last meet for the full academic team before spring break with the district meet scheduled April 6 in Hallsville.

Full results include:

Calculator Applications (2nd place team)

9th grade: Karen Sandate 4th

10th grade: Julian Chancellor 2nd

11th grade: Luke Thurman 1st, Yahaira Piña 3rd, Tanner Marshall 3rd, Gopi Amin 6th

12th grade: Clinton DeBord 1st

Overall: Clinton DeBord 2nd, Luke Thurman 5th

Mathematics (2nd place team)

10th grade: Julian Chancellor 6th

11th grade: Yahaira Piña 1st, Luke Thurman 2nd, Gopi Amin 3rd, Tanner Marshall 5th, Samuel Chappell 5th

12th grade: Clinton DeBord 2nd

Overall: Clinton DeBord 4th, Yahaira Piña 5th

Spelling (2nd place team) Sophie Greco 1st, Brissia Alvarez 4th

Number Sense

11th grade: Luke Thurman 3rd, Tanner Marshall 5th, Gopi Amin 6th, Samuel Chappell 6th

12th grade: Andrew Guerette 5th, Ethan Sanchez 6th

Science

10th grade: Vanessa Sampson 6th

11th grade: Luke Thurman 5th

Current Events Angelina Hernandez 1st

Persuasive Extemporaneous Speaking Lesly Flores 1st

Informative Extemporaneous Speaking Angelina Hernandez 1st, Sabrina Otero 3rd, Raquel Garza 4th

Lincoln Douglas Debate Angelina Hernandez 1st, Natalia Aspeitia 4th, Raquel Garza 6th

Journalism

Copy Editing: Brissia Alvarez 3rd, Evelyn Hernandez 5th

News Writing: Idania Castanon 6th

Feature Writing: Idania Castanon 5th, Noemy Dorantes 6th Headline Writing: Celeste Landin 5th

Ready Writing Sophie Greco 2nd

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 2023-2024 MPHS UIL Academic team