{"id":4487,"date":"2018-04-02T12:26:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T17:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/?p=4487"},"modified":"2018-04-02T12:29:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T17:29:15","slug":"20-mphs-students-advance-to-uil-regionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/20-mphs-students-advance-to-uil-regionals\/","title":{"rendered":"20 MPHS Students Advance to UIL Regionals"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Mount Pleasant High School Academic UIL Team placed second in the District 16-5A Academic UIL Meet!\u00a0 This is a first for MPHS!\u00a0 Go Tigers!<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very proud of this achievement because this is the highest MPHS has ever scored as a team in a very difficult Academic UIL District,\u201d explained Dr. Judith Saxton, MPISD\u2019s Director of Communications. \u201cWhile several of our teams have advanced to regionals, and even state UIL, we have never beaten Hallsville, Sulphur Springs and the rest of the District in Academic UIL. To have reached second place is something to be celebrated.\u201d<\/p>\n

MPHS is sending five teams to the Regional Meet. The Calculator Applications team (David Barboza, Jose Liera, Pornphiphat Saiboonchan and Sanum Shahid), Math team (David Barboza, Jose Liera, Pornphiphat Saiboonchan and Nathon Segovia) and the Speech team (Audrey Courreges, Jaquacy Minter, Anthony Preciado, Ryan Sharp and Maritza Zambrano) all took first place at the District 16-5A UIL Academic Meet.<\/p>\n

The Current Events team (Audrey Courreges Addison Hunter, Enrique Martinez and Javier Martinez) and the Spelling and Vocabulary team (Rocio Hernandez, Annie Le, Ilse Vargas and Mary Vargas) both advanced to Regionals as Wild Card teams.<\/p>\n

Two students advanced to the Regional Meet in individual categories. Eric Vasquez advanced in Headline writing taking first in District. Nathon Segovia, who advanced as a member of the Math team, also advanced in Science. Two other students advanced in two categories: Audrey Courreges in Current Events and Persuasive Speaking and Ryan Sharp in Informative Speaking and Prose Interpretation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am thrilled that we have 20 students advancing to the Regional Meet,\u201d said MPHS Academic UIL Coordinator Regina Crouch. \u201cThey have all worked hard to get to this point. I know that they and their coaches are working hard to prepare for regional competition.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many students earned individual medals in addition to the team medals they won. Individual results in each category are:<\/p>\n

Accounting<\/strong>
\nJosh Menhennett \u2013 6th Place<\/p>\n

Calculator Applications (1st Place Team)<\/strong>
\nJose Liera 1st Place, Pornphiphat Saiboonchan \u2013 3rd Place<\/p>\n

Computer Applications<\/strong>
\nJosh Menhennett \u2013 4th Place, Blanca Antolin \u2013 6th Place<\/p>\n

Current Events (Wild Card Team)<\/strong>
\nEnrique Martinez \u2013 3rd Place, Audrey Courreges \u2013 5th Place<\/p>\n

Informative Speaking<\/strong>
\nRyan Sharp \u2013 1st Place, Anthony Preciado \u2013 2nd Place, Maritza Zambrano \u2013 3rd Place<\/p>\n

Journalism (2nd Place Team)<\/strong>
\nCopy Editing: Rebecca Yox \u2013 4th Place, Blanca Antolin \u2013 5th Place
\nEditorial Writing: Rebecca Yox \u2013 4th Place, Matthew Armstrong \u2013 6th Place
\nFeature Writing: Rebecca Yox \u2013 6th Place
\nHeadlines: Eric Vasquez \u2013 1st Place, Matthew Armstrong \u2013 4th Place
\nNews Writing: Eric Vasquez \u2013 5th Place, Harper Davis \u2013 6th Place<\/p>\n

Lincoln-Douglas (LD) Debate<\/strong>
\nDani Bernal \u2013 4th Place<\/p>\n

Math (1st Place team)<\/strong>
\nJose Liera \u2013 1st Place, Pornphiphat Saiboonchan, \u2013\u00a0 2nd Place, David Barboza \u2013 4th Place<\/p>\n

Persuasive Speaking<\/strong>
\nAudrey Courreges \u2013 3rd Place, Isabella Greco \u2013 4th Place<\/p>\n

Poetry Interpretation<\/strong>
\nJaquacy Minter \u2013 1st Place, Seth Robertson \u2013 4th Place, Aslin Barrientos \u2013 6th Place<\/p>\n

Prose Interpretation<\/strong>
\nRyan Sharp \u2013 3rd Place<\/p>\n

Science<\/strong>
\nNathon Segovia \u2013 2nd Place overall
\nTop Physics Score: Nathon Segovia<\/p>\n

The Regional Academic UIL Meet will be held at Prosper High School on April 13-14, 2018.<\/p>\n

Pictured:
\nUIL Regional: Members of the MPHS Academic UIL team who advanced to regionals with their coaches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Mount Pleasant High School Academic UIL Team placed second in the District 16-5A Academic UIL Meet!\u00a0 This is a first for MPHS!\u00a0 Go Tigers! \u201cWe are very proud of this achievement because this is the highest MPHS has ever scored as a team in a very difficult Academic UIL District,\u201d explained Dr. Judith Saxton, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487","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=4487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}