{"id":7965,"date":"2022-01-18T11:33:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T17:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/?p=7965"},"modified":"2022-01-18T11:37:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T17:37:22","slug":"mphs-uil-competes-at-pine-tree-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/mphs-uil-competes-at-pine-tree-invitational\/","title":{"rendered":"MPHS UIL Competes at Pine Tree Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Mount Pleasant High School UIL Academic team opened its spring season on Friday and Saturday, January 7 and 8, at the Pine Tree High School UIL Invitational in Longview.<\/h3>\n<h3>Debate opened the competition on Friday night with the following results:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Lincoln Douglas:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2nd place\u2014Angelina Hernandez<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cross Examination:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3rd place&#8211;Taylor Hubbs and Merlin Cardona<\/p>\n<p>4th place\u2014Connelly Cowan and Anthony Orellana<\/p>\n<p>Top Speaker\u2014Taylor Hubbs<\/p>\n<h3>Saturday continued with academic and speech events with the following results:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Spelling (1st place team):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1st place\u2014Isabel Gonzales<\/p>\n<p>2nd place\u2014Sophie Greco<\/p>\n<p>5th place\u2014Angelina Hernandez<\/p>\n<p><strong>Calculator Applications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(9th grade) 3rd place\u2014Tanner Marshall, 5th place\u2014Luke Thurman<\/p>\n<p>(11th grade) 2nd place\u2014Param Poudel, 4th place\u2014Alan Garrett<\/p>\n<p>(12th grade) 5th place\u2014Jackelin Gomez<\/p>\n<p>Overall: 4th place\u2014Param Poudel<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mathematics:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(9th grade) 2nd place\u2014Tanner Marshall, 5th place\u2014Luke Thurman<\/p>\n<p>(11th grade) 2nd place\u2014Perla Guzman, 6th place\u2014Param Poudel<\/p>\n<p>(12th grade) 6th place\u2014Mary Kait Heeren<\/p>\n<p><strong>Current Events:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3rd place\u2014Connelly Cowan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ready Writing:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4th place\u2014Makayla Spigner<\/p>\n<p>6th place\u2014Angelina Hernandez<\/p>\n<p><strong>Computer Apps:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>6th place\u2014Jakob Carr<\/p>\n<p><strong>Social Studies:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3rd place\u2014Luiz Olvera<\/p>\n<p>4th place\u2014Odalys Adame<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speech (2nd place team)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Informative Extemporaneous Speaking:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1st place\u2014Connelly Cowan<\/p>\n<p>2nd place\u2014Taylor Hubbs<\/p>\n<p><strong>Persuasive Extemporaneous Speaking:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4th place\u2014Anthony Orellana<\/p>\n<p><strong>Science:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(12th Grade) 6th place\u2014Esteban Trejo<\/p>\n<p>(11th grade) 5th place\u2014Natalie Crockett<\/p>\n<h3>The MPHS UIL Academic teams will compete again at the Whitehouse Invitational on January 28 and 29 as they prepare for the district meet. The teams are coached by Gina Crouch (UIL Coordinator, Spelling and Current Events), Osias Hernandez (Math and Calculator), Gabrielle Robbins (Ready Writing), Tammy Thomas (Computer Science), David Clark (Computer Apps and Accounting), Leanne Blalock (Social Studies), Enrique Martinez (Speech and Debate), John Whitten (Journalism), Larry Russell (Science), Randy Ballard (Number Sense), and Angela Priefert (Literary Criticism).<\/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 opened its spring season on Friday and Saturday, January 7 and 8, at the Pine Tree High School UIL Invitational in Longview. Debate opened the competition on Friday night with the following results: Lincoln Douglas: 2nd place\u2014Angelina Hernandez Cross Examination: 3rd place&#8211;Taylor Hubbs and Merlin Cardona 4th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7965","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\/7965","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=7965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}