WJHS finishes 3rd at UIL meet

Members of the eighth grade UIL team at Whitehouse Junior High School

Whitehouse Junior High School competed in the University Interscholastic League academic competition in April. The students did a great job bringing back third place overall and third place for eighth grade.

Individual and team awards include:

Eighth Grade

Poetr y Reading: Cody Barton, second place.

Prose Reading: Kaylah Gonzalez, sixth place.

Maps, Graphs & Charts: Alex Johnson, first place; team, second place (Johnson, Andrew Strubble, Seth Swinney, Kim Carpio).

Modern Oratory: Johnson, fourth place.

Spelling: Carpio, third place; team, second place (Carpio, Shelby Russell, Fariba Ahmed, Logan Liptak).

Calculator Applications: Arjun Rawal, fourth place; team, third place (Rawal, Johnson, Tim Cummins, Lukas Gilbreath).

Dictionary Skills: Brandon Cottrell, third place; team, third place (Cottrell, Correy Davis, Dalton Dickerson).

Mathematics: Cummins, fifth place; Johnson, sixth; team, third place (Johnson, Cummins, Jackson Driggs, Aaron Uribe).

Members of the seventh grade UIL team at Whitehouse Junior High School

Social Studies: James Cannon, first place; team, first place (Cannon, Ahmed, Rawal).

Science: Nathan Adams, second place; Cannon, third place; team, first place (Adams, Cannon, Johnson, Cummins).

Ready Writing: Johnson, third place.

Editorial Writing: Darian Russell, fourth place.

Seventh Grade

Poetr y Reading: Jordan Spaude, sixth place.

Prose Reading: Hunter Stainback, third place.

Maps, Graphs & Charts: Josh Noble, third place; team, second place (Noble, Veronica Grable, Eric Le, Destiny Miles).

Spelling: Anna Hayden, fourth place; Samah Khan, sixth; team, third place (Khan, Hayden, Angelina Phillips).

Dictionary Skills: Angela Knight, first place; Marin King, fifth; team, first place (Knight, King, Kim Brown).

Number Sense: Cory Lusk, sixth place.

Social Studies: Holly Moran, first place; Sophia Wade, sixth; team, first place (Wade, Moran, Noble).

Science: Chris Kunzman, third place; Wade, fourth; Drew Fulsom, sixth; team, first place (Kunzman, Wade, Fulsom).

Listening Skills: Holly Moran, third place; Wade, fifth; team, third place (Wade, King, Moran).

Editorial Writing: Emily Farley, sixth place.