{"id":11494,"date":"2025-11-04T19:35:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/?p=11494"},"modified":"2025-11-10T19:42:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T01:42:51","slug":"mphs-uil-places-2nd-at-pine-tree-walk-the-plank-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/mphs-uil-places-2nd-at-pine-tree-walk-the-plank-invitational\/","title":{"rendered":"MPHS UIL Places 2nd at Pine Tree Walk the Plank Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>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.<\/h3>\n<h3>Individual results:<\/h3>\n<h3>Spelling (1st place team) Luke Brown 1st, Juliet Luna 2nd, Gabe Arredondo 4th<\/h3>\n<h3>Social Studies (1st place team) Declan O&#8217;Quinn 1st, Raymond Sanchez 2nd, Chris Garcia 4th, Samuel Carroll 6th<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Journalism (1st place team)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>Copy Editing: Evelyn Hernandez 1st, Juliet Luna 2nd<\/h3>\n<h3>News Writing: Evelyn Hernandez 1st, Aurian Peoples 6th<\/h3>\n<h3>Editorial Writing: Chelsea Mendoza 2nd, Maribel Ramirez 3rd, Aurian Peoples 6th<\/h3>\n<h3>Headlines: Maribel Ramirez 1st, Evelyn Hernandez 2nd, Chelsea Mendoza 3rd, Aurian Peoples 5th<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Calculator Applications (2nd place team)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>10th grade: Leslie Hernandez 4th, Jayden Baker 5th<\/h3>\n<h3>11th grade: Adriel Bagsic 3rd, Karen Sandate 4th<\/h3>\n<h3>12th grade: Alessandro Greco 2nd<\/h3>\n<h3>Overall: Alessandro Greco 4th<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Mathematics (2nd place team)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>10th grade: Lynndsie Phan 3rd, Leslie Hernandez 4th, Jayden Baker 5th<\/h3>\n<h3>11th grade: Adriel Bagsic 5th, Karen Sandate 5th<\/h3>\n<h3>12th grade: Alessandro Greco 2nd<\/h3>\n<h3>Overall: Alessandro Greco 6th<\/h3>\n<h3>Current Events (2nd place team) Raymond Sanchez 2nd, Declan O&#8217;Quinn 5th<\/h3>\n<h3>Computer Science (2nd place team) Gabriel Castaneda 6th, Gael Hernandez, Carlos Vazquez<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Number Sense<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>10th grade: Leslie Hernandez 4th, Jayden Baker 5th, Gabriel Casta\u00f1eda 6th<\/h3>\n<h3>11th grade: Karen Sandate 3rd, Adriel Bagsic 4th, Areli Casta\u00f1on 5th<\/h3>\n<h3>12th grade: Alessandro Greco 3rd<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Science<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>11th grade: Karen Sandate 6th<\/h3>\n<h3>12th grade: Alessandro Greco 6th<\/h3>\n<h3>Persuasive Extemporaneous Speaking: Raif Fielder 4th<\/h3>\n<h3>Informative Extemporaneous Speaking: Sabrina Otero-Svirska 1st<\/h3>\n<h3>Ready Writing: Evelyn Hernandez 5th<\/h3>\n<h3>Literary Criticism: Abi Parthak 1st<\/h3>\n<h3>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.<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Pictured: members of the MPHS UIL Academic teams<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}