North Lamar wins District UIL Academic Competition

 

In the closest competition in the history of UIL District 14 4A, the North Lamar High School Academic Team earned the 2017 District Championship at Texarkana College on Friday, March 24.  The 28 member team from North Lamar edged out Pleasant Grove by 4 points to capture their 11th district championship in the last twelve years.

“Strong performances by students from North Lamar, Pleasant Grove, Atlanta, and Paris created an exciting see-saw battle that continued throughout the day,” said NL UIL coach Dennis Hodgkiss.  “The issue was not decided until the late afternoon on Friday when the last event was completed in an amazingly close competition during which three different schools held the lead at one time or the other.”

The top three individual winners and the top team in each event will go on to compete at region on Saturday, April 8, on the campus of Texas A&M University Commerce.  North Lamar students placing were:

Kylie Jackson – 10^th in Accounting

Coral Smith – 12^th in Accounting

Jess Chollet – 4^th in Calculator, 10^th in Mathematics, 6^th in Number Sense

Heather Armstrong – 10^th in Calculator, 2^nd in Mathematics, 5^th in Number Sense, 2^nd

in Science, Top Chemistry Score, Top Physics Score

Rael Memnon – 11^th in Calculator, 4^th in Literary Criticism

Abraham Prado – 9^th in Current Events

Sam Greenwell – 11^th in Current Events, 9^th in Mathematics, 12^th in Number Sense

Colin Hodgkiss – 4^th in Computer Applications, 12^th in Social Studies

Mason Remaley – 6^th in Computer Applications

Hope Ricketts – 2^nd in Editorial Writing, 1^st in Headline Writing

Alison Thrasher – 5^th in Editorial Writing

Jericka Johnson – 5^th in Feature Writing

Megan Grogan – 5^th in Headline Writing

Taylor White – 1^st in Literary Criticism

Kyra Conlin – 2^nd in Literary Criticism

Landon Carter – 7^th in Literary Criticism

Ty Rast – 10^th in Science

Steele Musgrove – 1^st in Spelling

Laura Carl – 8^th in Spelling

North Lamar Teams – 2^nd in Science, 1^st in Literary Criticism, 3^rd in Calculator, 3^rd in

Mathematics, 2^nd in Number Sense

 

North Lamar UIL Academic Coaches are Teresa Bussell (Science), Cody Head (One Act Play), Carolyn Hiller (Number Sense, Calculator, Math), Kristi Hodgkiss ( Speech and Debate), Steven Jones (Current Events), Cheryl LaRue (Journalism, Ready Writing), Sandra Patterson (Spelling), Pam Tuttle (Prose and Poetry), Dennis Hodgkiss (Social Studies), and Linda Winfrey (Literary Criticism).