April 15, 2024 – UIL Academic Team Updates (District UIL Academics Highlights 2024)
April 5 & 10 – District 15-4A Academic Meet
The SSHS Wildcat UIL Academic Team competed Friday, April 5 and Wednesday, April 10 at the District 15-4A Academic Meet. The team won the District 15-4A championship with 823 points, garnering 63 individual medals, 5 first place teams, and 3 second place teams. SSHS students also earned the titles of District Journalism and Speech Champions. In all, 33 students qualified for region competition and 6 are alternates to region. Here is a list of our 2024 medalists. Congratulations to these hard-working competitors and coaches and thanks to the staff and administration of Sulphur Springs High School for your support.
Copy Editing (Madison Millsap & Gail Herman – Coaches) Jolene Reed – 1st Place (R) Abigail Bautista – 2nd Place(R) Payton Hooks – 3rd Place(R)
News Writing (Millsap & Herman – Coaches) Jolene Reed – 1st Place(R) Payton Hooks – 2nd Place(R) Dylan McKinney – 3rd Place (R)
Feature Writing (Millsap & Herman – Coaches) Jolene Reed – 1st Place(R) Payton Hooks – 2nd PlaceR Kolbie Moughon – 6th Place
Editorial Writing (Millsap & Herman – Coaches) Asia Chen – 1st Place(R) Anthony Small – 2nd PlaceR Jolene Reed – 3rd Place(R)
Headline Writing (Millsap & Herman – Coaches) Abigail Bautista – 1st Place(R) Betzy Chacon – 2nd PlaceR Jolene Reed – 3rd Place(R)
Journalism – 1st Place Team (Madison Millsap & Gail Herman – Coaches)
Ready Writing (Gail Herman – Coach) Anthony Small – 2nd Place(R) Alan Tellez – 3rd Place(R) Alexis Villarino – 4th Place(A)
Accounting (Jamie VanWinkle – Coach) Holden Moss – 1st Place(R)
Calculator Applications (Gerald Grafton – Coach) Asia Chen – 1st Place(R) Barrett Thesing – 3rd Place(R) Katlyn Noe – 5th Place Briana Macedo – 6th Place TEAM – 1st Place(R)(Chen, Thesing, Noe, Macedo)
Computer Applications (Jill Crump – Coach) Makieya Boren – 1st Place(R)
Current Issues & Events (Madison Millsap – Coach) James “Mac” McCoy – 1st Place(R)Crawford Johnson – 2nd Place(R) Abigail Bautista – 3rd Place(R) Kolbie Moughon – 4th Place(A)Craig Draper – 5th Place TEAM – 1st Place(R)(McCoy, Johnson, Bautista, Moughon)
Literary Criticism (Gail Herman – Coach) Alexis Villarino – 1st Place(R) Kami White – 2nd Place(R) Alan Tellez – 3rd Place(R) Betzy Chacon – 4th Place(A) Dylan McKinney – 6th Place TEAM – 1st Place(R)(Villarino, White, Tellez, Chacon)
Mathematics (Gerald Grafton – Coach) Asia Chen – 2nd Place(R) Anthony Small – 5th Place TEAM – 2nd Place(A)(Chen, Small, A. Villarino, K. White)
Number Sense (Gerald Grafton – Coach) Katlyn Noe – 4th Place(A)
Science (Kristen Shelton – Coach) Asia Chen – 4th PlaceA Jessie Li – 6th Place TEAM – 2nd PlaceA(Chen, Li, C. Murillo, R. Offutt)
Social Studies (Madison Millsap – Coach) Grayson Wall – 1st Place(R) Davin Ly – 2nd Place(R) Julia Garcia-Ricker – 3rd Place(R) Crawford Johnson – 4th Place(A) Conner Curtis – 5th Place Cameron Davis – 6th Place TEAM – 1st Place(R)(Wall, Ly, Garcia-Ricker, Johnson)
Spelling & Vocabulary (Gail Herman – Coach) Abigail Bautista – 1st Place(R) Kami White – 2nd Place(R) Kale Burgin – 3rd Place(R) Celeste Hernandez – 4th Place(A) Laney Bankston – 5th Place Camila Hidalgo – 6th Place TEAM – 1st Place(R)(Bautista, White, Burgin, Hernandez)
Speech – 1st Place (Coaches: Trevor King, Jamie VanWinkle, Lesha Woodard)
Prose (Lesha Woodard – Coach) Tally Brown – 1st Place(R) Aiden Woodard – 2nd Place(R) Aspen Mayhew – 3rd Place(R)
Poetry (Lesha Woodard – Coach) Emma Boatman – 1st Place(R) Addison Bradley – 2nd Place(R) Nathan Bilyeu – 3rd Place(R)
Informative (Trevor King – Coach) Carolina Murillo-Barcenas – 2nd Place(R)
Persuasive (Trevor King – Coach) Jordan VanWinkle – 1st Place(R) Reese Offutt – 2nd Place(R)
(R) – Regional Qualifier, (A) – Alternate for Region
Previous Events Contributing to District Totals:
CX Debate (Offutt-Murillo) 2nd Place Team (Advanced to State CX)
ONE ACT PLAY District Champs (Advanced to Bi-district competition)
Upcoming dates:
April 26 – SSHS UIL @ Region 2 UIL Meet (TAMU – Commerce)
May 13 – 15 – SSHS UIL @ State UIL Academic Meet (UT – Austin)
In UIL 4A District 15 Academic Contest, overall school sweepstakes resulted in the following…
Sulphur Springs earned 823 points. Paris earned 268 points. Texarkana Pleasant Grove earned a total of 243 points. Paris North Lamar earned 178 points. Texarkana Liberty-Eylau collected 106 points, and Pittsburg earned 17 points. UIL Academic Event Scoring was 0.
Speech Team results included…
Sulphur Springs in first place with with a Team Score of 129, and 10 points. Texarkana Pleasant Grove in second place with a team score of 72, with 5 points. Paris North Lamar in third place with a team score of 64, with 0 points. In fourth place was Paris with a team score of 36, with 0 points. Texarkana Liberty-Eylau landed in fifth place with a score of 22, with 0 points.
UIL 4A District 15 Academic Contest Journalism team results looked like this.
First place went to Sulphur Springs with a Team Score of 179, with 10 points. Texarkana Liberty-Eylau landed in second place with a Team Score of 46, with 5 points. Texarkana Pleasant Grove was in third place with a Team Score of 42 and 0 points. Fourth place went to Paris with a Team Score of 8, with 0 points.
KSST would like to thank Sulphur Springs ISD Communications Coordinator Angela Grimes for this information. Way to go, Wildcats, and all students excelling in 2024!
