Pine Tree High School UIL Academics Captures District Champion Title
The Pine Tree HS UIL Academics team recently captured the District 16-4A title. Students earned 60 individual medals, 16 first place individual medals, and 10 team first places. In addition, a record-setting 35 students qualified for 52 regional placements. Both the Speech and Debate team and the Journalism team were the overall winners. Pine Tree finished the competition with 734 points compared to the 2nd place school, which had 278 points. The last time Pine Tree HS won the district title was 18 years ago. Go Pirates!
JOURNALISM – 1st OVERALL
COPY EDITING
1st – Jennifer Chen*
2nd – Mitchell Eggerman*
FEATURE WRITING
1st – Jennifer Chen*
5th – Lucia McCree
EDITORIAL WRITING
1st – Jennifer Chen*
2nd – Mitchell Eggerman*
3rd – Rachel Malloy*
NEWS WRITING
1st – Rachel Malloy*
3rd – Jennifer Chen*
4th – Lucia McCree*
HEADLINE WRITING
1st – Stanford O’Quinn*
2nd – Jennifer Chen*
5th – Rachel Malloy
SPEECH & DEBATE – 1ST OVERALL
INFORMATIVE EXTEMP
1st – Liv Brannon*
5th – Jy’Mon Hatcher
PERSUASIVE EXTEMP
1st – Aiden McQueary*
2nd – Jacobie Humphrey*
3rd – Emma Willis*
LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATE
2nd – Liv Brannon*
6th – Jy’Mon Hatcher
POETRY INTERPRETATION
1st – Claire Rutledge*
5th – Melyssa Juarez
PROSE INTERPRETATION
1st – Parker Dalton*
3rd – Emma Willis*
CX DEBATE
1st – Aiden McQueary & Jacobie Humphrey^
5th – Rylie Apple & Sophiya McCain Hussein
FIRST PLACE FINISHES
CALCULATOR APPLICATIONS – 1ST*
2nd – Sophia Nix*
3rd – Emily Willadson*
5th – Viktoria Roudkovski
Laurelise Beakley
COMPUTER SCIENCE – 1ST*
1st – Ryan Abbott*
2nd – Matthew Sprague*
4th – Gabriel Cabudoy
6th – Angela Deel
LITERARY CRITICISM – 1ST*
1st – Zoey Bowers*
2nd – Kristyn Edwards*
Alexis Klein
Kaylee Lacy
MATHEMATICS – 1ST*
1st – Emily Willadson*
3rd – Viktoria Roudkovski*
5th – Alex Chen
6th – Eryka Furlong (tie)
6th – Matthew Sprague (tie)
NUMBER SENSE – 1ST*
2nd – Emily Willadson*
3rd – Matthew Sprague*
4th – Alex Chen
5th – Ashlyn Dunn
6th – Eryka Furlong
SCIENCE – 1ST*
1st – Cread Ray*
2nd – Brandon Hayes*
3rd – Ryan Abbott*
6th – Seth McFarland
TOP BIOLOGY
1st – Cread Ray*
TOP CHEMISTRY
1st – Cread Ray*
2nd – Brandon Hayes
TOP PHYSICS
1st – Cread Ray*
2nd – Brandon Hayes
SOCIAL STUDIES – 1ST*
5th – Kristyn Edwards
Levi Walker
Deborah Pitman
Brooklyn Bowen
SPELLING – 1ST*
1st – Mae Shen*
2nd – Ashlyn Dunn* (tie)
2nd – Keegan Felker* (tie)
4th – Emma Bourn
READY WRITING
1st – Alexis Klein*
SECOND PLACE TEAM
ACCOUNTING
3rd – Adrian Juarez*
6th – Stanford O’Quinn
ONE-ACT PLAY
BEST PERFORMER – Claire Rutledge
ALL-STAR CAST – Haylie Gresham
HONORABLE MENTION – Emma Willis
OUTSTANDING CREW – Emmaline Edge
*denotes regional qualifying individual or team
^denotes state qualifiers