The Mount Pleasant High School UIL Academic team continued its fall season on Saturday, November 1 at the Walk the Plank Invitational at Pine Tree. MPHS was the 2nd place team overall in the large school division boasting three 1st place and four 2nd place team finishes.

Individual results:

Spelling (1st place team) Luke Brown 1st, Juliet Luna 2nd, Gabe Arredondo 4th

Social Studies (1st place team) Declan O’Quinn 1st, Raymond Sanchez 2nd, Chris Garcia 4th, Samuel Carroll 6th

Journalism (1st place team)

Copy Editing: Evelyn Hernandez 1st, Juliet Luna 2nd

News Writing: Evelyn Hernandez 1st, Aurian Peoples 6th

Editorial Writing: Chelsea Mendoza 2nd, Maribel Ramirez 3rd, Aurian Peoples 6th

Headlines: Maribel Ramirez 1st, Evelyn Hernandez 2nd, Chelsea Mendoza 3rd, Aurian Peoples 5th

Calculator Applications (2nd place team)

10th grade: Leslie Hernandez 4th, Jayden Baker 5th

11th grade: Adriel Bagsic 3rd, Karen Sandate 4th

12th grade: Alessandro Greco 2nd

Overall: Alessandro Greco 4th

Mathematics (2nd place team)

10th grade: Lynndsie Phan 3rd, Leslie Hernandez 4th, Jayden Baker 5th

11th grade: Adriel Bagsic 5th, Karen Sandate 5th

12th grade: Alessandro Greco 2nd

Overall: Alessandro Greco 6th

Current Events (2nd place team) Raymond Sanchez 2nd, Declan O’Quinn 5th

Computer Science (2nd place team) Gabriel Castaneda 6th, Gael Hernandez, Carlos Vazquez

Number Sense

10th grade: Leslie Hernandez 4th, Jayden Baker 5th, Gabriel Castañeda 6th

11th grade: Karen Sandate 3rd, Adriel Bagsic 4th, Areli Castañon 5th

12th grade: Alessandro Greco 3rd

Science

11th grade: Karen Sandate 6th

12th grade: Alessandro Greco 6th

Persuasive Extemporaneous Speaking: Raif Fielder 4th

Informative Extemporaneous Speaking: Sabrina Otero-Svirska 1st

Ready Writing: Evelyn Hernandez 5th

Literary Criticism: Abi Parthak 1st

Next up for MPHS UIL, the Speech and Debate team will compete at Congress Regionals on Friday, November 7 at the Region 8 ESC and the full team will close out the fall season on Saturday, November 8 in Whitehouse.

Pictured: members of the MPHS UIL Academic teams