The Mount Pleasant High School UIL Academic team competed at the District 15 AAAAA UIL Academic Meet on March 26-27 at the MPISD Administration Building and Mount Pleasant Junior High. Overall, MPHS took third place and advanced 16 to the Regional Meet.

Full results:

Social Studies—(1st place team, team regional Qualifiers), Juan Cigarroa 1st place (Regional Qualifier), Odalys Adame (Regional Qualifier), Desline Chavez (Regional Qualifier), Brock Shavers (Regional Qualifier)

Lincoln Douglas Debate—Reid Pinckard 1st place and Top Speaker (Regional Qualifier), Taylor Hubbs 2nd place, (Regional Qualifier), Anthony Orellana 4th place (Regional alternate)

Informative Extemporaneous Speaking—Connelly Cowan 1st place (Regional Qualifier), Taylor Hubbs 2nd place (Regional Qualifier), Ryan Sharp 3rd place (Regional Qualifier)

Persuasive Extemporaneous Speaking—Reid Pinckard 1st place (Regional Qualifier), Isabella Greco 3rd place (Regional Qualifier)

Computer Applications—Victor Diaz 1st place (Regional Qualifier), David Perez 2nd place (Regional Qualifier)

Calculator Applications—(2nd place team) Miguel Segura 3rd place (Regional Qualifier), Patricia Roque 5th place, Devin Castaneda, Nicholas Segovia

Current Events—Connelly Cowan 2nd place (Regional Qualifier)

Journalism—Megan Adams 3rd place Copy Editing (Regional Qualifier) and 6th place Editorial Writing

Mathematics—Miguel Segura 5th place

Accounting—Victor Diaz 6th place

Advancing teams and individuals will compete at the Regional Meet to be held April 16 at the MPISD Administration Building and April 17 at Whitehouse High School. Those placing in the top 3 in each event will qualify for the State Meet in May.

Pictured: MPHS UIL Academic Team District Medalists