The Mount Pleasant High School UIL Academic team took 2nd place team honors and hosted the annual Winter Tiger Invitational on Saturday, February 21. In addition to numerous individual medals, MPHS also took home 1st place team plaques in Calculator Applications, Mathematics, and Number Sense.

Individual results:

-Calculator Applications (1st place team)

9th grade: Logan Latiolais 1st, Jake Anderson 2nd, Zoe Zuniga 3rd

10th grade: Jayden Baker 1st, Leslie Hernandez 2nd, Lynndsie Phan 3rd, Evelyn Whisenhunt 4th, Yolette Mata 5th

11th grade: Karen Sandate 1st, Adriel Bagsic 2nd, Jannely Aguilar 3rd, Araceli Salazar 4th, Heidi Martinez 6th

12th grade: Julian Chancellor 1st, Alessandro Greco 2nd, Jamie Garrett 3rd, Marely Lopez 4th, Audrey Garrett 5th

-Mathematics (1st place team)

10th grade: Leslie Hernandez 1st, Lynndsie Phan 2nd, Evelyn Whisenhunt 3rd, Jayden Baker 5th

11th grade: Karen Sandate 1st, Araceli Salazar 2nd, Adriel Bagsic 3rd, Jannely Aguilar 6th

12th grade: Julian Chancellor 1st, Alessandro Greco 2nd

-Number Sense (1st place team)

9th grade: Zoe Zuniga 2nd, Logan Latiolais 4th

10th grade: Adrian Ayala 2nd, Ivan Martinez 4th, Evelyn Whisenhunt 5th

11th grade: Karen Sandate 1st, Carson Bell 2nd, Erick Bernardi 2nd, Jayden Loewen 4th, Jannely Aguilar 6th

12th grade: Julian Chancellor 1st, Aiyanna Brumfield 2nd, Alessandro Greco 3rd

-Spelling (2nd place team)

Brissia Alvarez 5th, Jenny Luna, Luke Brown, Juliet Luna

-Science:

10th grade: Jose Gonzalez 3rd

11th grade: Francisco Serrano 4th, Adriel Bagsic 6th

12th grade: Isaac Flores 5th

-Journalism

Copy Editing: Brissia Alvarez 2nd, Jenny Luna 5th

News Writing: Evelyn Hernandez 4th

Feature Writing: Evelyn Hernandez 6th

Editorial Writing: Jennifer Luna 4th, Brissia Alvarez 6th

Headline Writing: Evelyn Hernandez 1st, Brissia Alvarez 4th, Jennifer Luna 6th

-Accounting: Francisco Zapata 4th, Alex Perez 4th

-Informative Extemporaneous Speaking: Raquel Garza 1st

The team will travel to Sulphur Springs for the Judy Tipping Memorial UIL Invitational Meet on Saturday, February 28 as they continue to practice for the district meet in March.

Pictured: members of the MPHS UIL Academic teams