Academic Decathlon wins regionals
By George Beltran
AHS team headed to state
The Alice High School Academic Decathlon Team competed at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi in the Region III meet. The event took place Friday, February 7 and Saturday, February 8th.
Alice High School is the Medium School Region III Super Quiz Champions for the second year in a row and they were also the Region III Academic Decathlon Medium School Team Champions. King High School had won the Large school championship from 2004 to 2016, while Alice had won the Medium School Championship from 2004 to 2016, when King dropped to Medium school, they defeated Alice the last 3 years and in 2020 Alice High School finally beat King High School, Ray, Veterans Memorial, Flour Bluff, Moody, Miller, Tuloso-Midway and others for the Championship.
Individually, Genevieve Toureilles in the Honors division was 3rd in Art with 720 points, 3rd in Economics with 740 points and 4th overall in Honors division individually with 7,782.7 points.
Madison Timmons in the Honors division was 2nd in Music with 780 points, 1st in Science with 920 points, 1st in Art with 980 points, 2nd in Economics with 840 points, 3rd in Social Science with 820 points and 2nd place overall in Honors division individually with 8,264.7 points.
Justin Pastrano in the honors division was 3rd in Essay with 974 points, and 2nd in interview with 993.3 points and had a total honors score of 7,256.9 points
Ali Shah in the Scholastic division was 2nd in Science with a score of 600 points, 2nd in Art with a score of 700 points, 1st in Social Science with a score of 840 points and 4th place overall individually in the Scholastic Division with 6031points.
Victor Trent Rodriguez in the Scholastic Division was 1st in Music with 660 points, 1st in Science with 660 points, 3rd in Art with 680 points, 2nd in Social Science with 720 points and 1st place overall individually in the Scholastic Division with 6,631 points.
Gavin Zerrato in the Scholastic Division was 2nd in Science with 600 points, 3rd in Economics with 520 points, 3rd in Social Science with 600 points and 5th place overall individually in the Scholastic Division with 6,022.8 points.
Ruth Jiminez in the Varsity Division was 2nd in Art with 440 points, 2nd in Social Science with 500 points and 5th place overall individually in the Varsity Division with 5,128.8 points.
Shan Shah in the Varsity Division was 1st in Language / Literature with 600 points, 2nd in Science with 520 points, 1st in Social Science with 700 points, and 4th place overall individually in the Varsity Division with 5,315 points.
Audrey Joslin in the Varsity Division was 1st place in math with 371 points and had an individual score of 4,256.1 points.
Alice High School had a total score of 39,153.2 points to advance to the
State Competition to be held in Frisco, Texas. The Academic Decathlon Team is Coached
