Lit Crit team wins district academic meet, 17 students qualify for region
March 26, 2023
Led by junior Gabi Probst, the Literary Criticism team won the district title at the District 25-6A UIL Academic Meet. Probst placed first, junior Lucy Draper second, junior Gage Gruett sixth, and senior Abby Lincks additionally qualified for the region meet at UTSA on Saturday, April 22 with the team.
Senior Nihar Janga won the district title in Science and Chemistry, specifically, while senior Benyamin Zilber placed first in Biology and sixth overall in Science. The Science team also qualified for the region meet as the second place wild card team, which additionally includes sophomore Ninaad Nair and junior Paige Radloff.
Other wildcard second place teams that qualified for the region meet include Mathematics (Ryan Chin, Ninaad Nair, Ayush Singh, Jason Kim) and Social Studies (Selena Xu, Isabela Iglesias, Lourdes Hernandez Peraza).
The top three finishers in each competition automatically qualify for the region meet, while fourth place finishers will act as alternates. Teams finishing second are also alternates if not the wild card qualifier. Wild car teams had the highest score amongst runner ups in the Region IV.
Regional Qualifiers (17 students): Nihar Janga in Science and Chemistry, first place; Benyamin Zilber in Biology, first place; Gabi Probst in Literary Criticism, first place; Lucy Draper in Literary Criticism, second place; Grant Royer in Accounting, second place; Isabel Young in Editorial Writing and Copy Editing, thiird place; Dayna Ung in Headline Writing, third place; Ryan Chin in Mathematics, third place
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