Campus Life

UIL team sweeps districts

Lucas Barr, Staff Reporter|March 26, 2018

After placing 2nd in state in 2015, the school’s UIL academic team hopes to be adding trophies to this display case with the 2018 season that started Saturday.

The school finished in first place at the UIL Academic District Meet on Saturday at Wakeland High School, after narrowly losing last year.

“We won sweepstakes by more than 100 points,” UIL Academic coordinator Courtney Benson. “We won in several events. Each person that placed added points to our overall sweepstakes, so even though they may not have progressed to regionals, they still added points and they were still valued.”

Nine students who placed first, second, or third in their competitions will move on to the regional competition in Prosper.

“The competition is always very tough, but some of our events that went to state last year like science and computer science,” Benson said. “It’s going to be competitive for them again but they have a good shot at it because a lot of them are returning members.”

Students Parker Butler and Elaine Mei placed first and second in Lincoln Douglas debate respectfully, sealing their spots at Prosper.

“They’re working through their cases, they’re going back through their flow sheets from when they were competing against other people, looking at their cases and how to defend against them,” debate coach and English teacher Melissa Maier said. “They never let me down in anything they do.”

The competition was a success for senior Abby Dasgupta who placed third in Editorial Writing in her first time ever competing.

“It was great,” Dasgupta said via text message. “I was kind of confused at first because I’d never done a UIL event before and I wasn’t familiar with the procedure, but other people from Liberty helped me out so it wasn’t that stressful. I’m just surprised that I advanced in general because this was my first UIL event and I wasn’t expecting anything but a cool experience.”

Event	Place	Points	School	Name
Accounting	1	15	Reedy HS Frisco	Anish Patel
	2	12	Liberty HS Frisco	Kaitlyn Wilcox
	3	10	Wakeland HS Frisco	Kate Maddox
	4	8	Wakeland HS Frisco	Jayda Garay
	5	6	Liberty HS Frisco	Macy Reed
	6	4	Heritage HS Frisco	Chase Steward

Calculator Applications	1	15	Liberty HS Frisco	Pradyun Sangineni
	2	12	Liberty HS Frisco	Vinit Shirvaikar
	3	10	Liberty HS Frisco	Govind Nandagopal
	4	8	Reedy HS Frisco	Kunal Kapoor
	5	6	Liberty HS Frisco	Andy Liu
	6	4	Lone Star HS Frisco	Tarun Sontam

Current Issues	1	15	Wakeland HS Frisco	Ishani Kaul
	2	12	Wakeland HS Frisco	Josiah Chacko
	3	10	Liberty HS Frisco	Michael Yang
	4	8	Liberty HS Frisco	Samy Boutouis
	5	6	Frisco H S Frisco	Logan Rosenberg
	6	4	Reedy HS Frisco	Abhishek Sule

Computer Applications	1	15	Reedy HS Frisco	Anish Patel
	2	12	Liberty HS Frisco	Wilcox Kaitlyn
	3	10	Heritage HS Frisco	Yash Sharma
	4	8	Reedy HS Frisco	Ishva Patel
	5	6	Lone Star HS Frisco	Tanner Denton
	6	4	Centennial HS Frisco	Ritson Jordan

Computer Science	1	15	Heritage HS Frisco	Brice Chen
	2	12	Liberty HS Frisco	Ben Wyatt
	3	9	Centennial HS Frisco	Emily Peterson
	3	9	Liberty HS Frisco	Sam Su
	5	6	Centennial HS Frisco	Rhythm Garg
	6	4	Heritage HS Frisco	Kerry Tu

Editorial Writing	1	15	Heritage HS Frisco	Jimena Pinzon
	2	12	Wakeland HS Frisco	Rohit Bolla
	3	10	Liberty HS Frisco	Abby Dasgupta
	4	8	Wakeland HS Frisco	Anjali Venna
	5	6	Heritage HS Frisco	Zainab Anjum
	6	4	Reedy HS Frisco	Amiya Chennappan

Feature Writing	1	15	Independence Frisco	Surekha Balakrishnan
	2	12	Heritage HS Frisco	Fiza Kuzhiyil
	3	10	Wakeland HS Frisco	Anjali Venna
	4	8	Independence Frisco	Sage Steele
	5	6	Reedy HS Frisco	Lena Partain
	6	4	Heritage HS Frisco	Nadine Said

Headline Writing	1	15	Liberty HS Frisco	Lucas Barr
	2	12	Independence Frisco	Surekha Balakrishnan
	3	10	Centennial HS Frisco	Anisha Zaman
	4	8	Independence Frisco	Sage Steele
	5	6	Heritage HS Frisco	Jessica Duvall
	6	4	Heritage HS Frisco	Shannon-Renee Odoi

Informative Speaking	1	15	Centennial HS Frisco	Gary Frankel
	2	12	Independence Frisco	Shivani Gollapudi
	3	10	Independence Frisco	Joseph Jiang
	4	8	Centennial HS Frisco	Naman Mathur
	5	6	Centennial HS Frisco	Peter Chung
	6	4	Liberty HS Frisco	Elana Breslav

Lincoln Douglas Debate	1	15	Liberty HS Frisco	Parker Butler
	2	12	Liberty HS Frisco	Elaine Mei
	3	10	Centennial HS Frisco	Nidhi Nidhi Sonwalkar
	4	8	Liberty HS Frisco	Aarti Poduvai
	5	6	Wakeland HS Frisco	Seth Hulse
	6	4	Lone Star HS Frisco	Alaia Snell

Literary Criticism	1	15	Centennial HS Frisco	Connie Hu
	2	12	Liberty HS Frisco	Elizabeth Piper
	3	10	Independence Frisco	Tealia Abrahamson
	4	8	Wakeland HS Frisco	Jack Walter
	5	6	Independence Frisco	Rebekah Ramos
	6	4	Centennial HS Frisco	Abhinav Kolli

Mathematics	1	15	Centennial HS Frisco	Garg Rhythm
	2	12	Reedy HS Frisco	Anikait Kolluri
	3	10	Liberty HS Frisco	Lisa Punnen
	4	8	Reedy HS Frisco	Ansh Jain
	5	6	Heritage HS Frisco	Dave Banerjee
	6	4	Lone Star HS Frisco	Tarun Sontam

Number Sense	1	15	Centennial HS Frisco	Rhythm Garg
	2	12	Reedy HS Frisco	Ansh Jain
	3	10	Liberty HS Frisco	Pradyun Sangineni
	4	8	Reedy HS Frisco	Kunal Kapoor
	5	6	Reedy HS Frisco	Anikait Kolluri
	6	4	Liberty HS Frisco	Vinit Shirvaikar

News Writing	1	15	Independence Frisco	Shriya Katari
	2	12	Wakeland HS Frisco	Anjali Venna
	3	10	Independence Frisco	Sage Steele
	4	8	Heritage HS Frisco	Nadine Said
	5	6	Independence Frisco	Surekha Balakrishnan
	6	4	Heritage HS Frisco	Fiza Kuzhiyil

Persuasive Speaking	1	15	Centennial HS Frisco	Brian Lee
	2	12	Independence Frisco	Anjali Shashidhar
	3	10	Centennial HS Frisco	Hamza Suhail
	4	8	Independence Frisco	Anjika Bhalla
	5	6	Centennial HS Frisco	Jeff Bao
	6	4	Independence Frisco	Tanvi Bellam

Poetry Interpretation	1	15	Heritage HS Frisco	Janel Agbor
	2	12	Reedy HS Frisco	Joshua Kurtz
	3	10	Centennial HS Frisco	Tayisia Chernen
	4	8	Heritage HS Frisco	Eli Doggett
	5	6	Centennial HS Frisco	Neerul Gupta
	6	4	Lone Star HS Frisco	Avery Shelton

Prose Interpretation	1	15	Lone Star HS Frisco	Athena Hawkins
	2	12	Lone Star HS Frisco	Victoria Pernia
	3	10	Heritage HS Frisco	Ileagh MacIvers
	4	8	Reedy HS Frisco	Arub Ahmad
	5	6	Lone Star HS Frisco	Griffin Quinn
	6	4	Independence Frisco	Sreeya Pandugu

Ready Writing	1	15	Liberty HS Frisco	Kevin Li
	2	12	Centennial HS Frisco	Maria Pelayo
	3	10	Lone Star HS Frisco	Samantha Searfoss
	4	8	Liberty HS Frisco	Elizabeth Piper
	5	6	Independence Frisco	Telia Abrahamson
	6	4	Lone Star HS Frisco	Matthew Willis

Biology	1	3	Wakeland HS Frisco	Harish Suryadevara

Chemistry	1	3	Lone Star HS Frisco	Ritvik Ramakrishnan

Science	1	15	Liberty HS Frisco	Sai Koukuntla
	2	12	Liberty HS Frisco	William Wang
	3	10	Liberty HS Frisco	Charles Yang
	4	8	Liberty HS Frisco	Siddhi Patadia
	5	6	Centennial HS Frisco	Mayur Pabba
	6	4	Wakeland HS Frisco	Alexa Borchardt

Physics	1	3	Liberty HS Frisco	Sai Koukuntla

Social Studies	1	15	Wakeland HS Frisco	Labiba Uddin
	2	12	Wakeland HS Frisco	Hannah Lee
	3	10	Liberty HS Frisco	Michael Yang
	4	8	Wakeland HS Frisco	Ishani Kaul
	5	6	Centennial HS Frisco	Sophie Rittenberry
	6	4	Heritage HS Frisco	Kamran Hakeem-George

Spelling and Vocabulary	1	15	Lone Star HS Frisco	Yogita Manikandan
	2	12	Lone Star HS Frisco	Sai Harsha Kolachina
	3	10	Lone Star HS Frisco	Journey Aquino
	4	8	Independence Frisco	Tealia Abrahamson
	5	6	Liberty HS Frisco	Kelly Sun
	6	4	Lone Star HS Frisco	Vikti Mehta

Teams:

Event	Place	Points	School
Accounting	1	10	Wakeland HS Frisco
	2	5	Heritage HS Frisco

Calculator Applications	1	10	Liberty HS Frisco
	2	5	Frisco H S Frisco

Current Issues	1	10	Wakeland HS Frisco
	2	5	Liberty HS Frisco

Computer Science	1	20	Centennial HS Frisco
	2	16	Liberty HS Frisco
	3	12	Heritage HS Frisco

Cross Examination Debate	1	20	Liberty HS Frisco Team 1
	3	16	Lone Star HS Frisco Team 2
	4	12	Frisco H S Frisco Team 2
	5	10	Lone Star HS Frisco Team 3
	6	8	Lone Star HS Frisco Team 1

Journalism	1	10	Independence Frisco
	2	5	Heritage HS Frisco

Literary Criticism	1	10	Liberty HS Frisco
	2	5	Centennial HS Frisco

Mathematics	1	10	Reedy HS Frisco
	2	5	Liberty HS Frisco

Number Sense	1	10	Reedy HS Frisco
	2	5	Liberty HS Frisco

One Act Play	1	60	Heritage HS Frisco
	1	48	Wakeland HS Frisco
	1	56	Centennial HS Frisco
	4	37	Liberty HS Frisco
	5	32	Independence Frisco
	5	22	Reedy HS Frisco

Science	1	10	Liberty HS Frisco
	2	5	Wakeland HS Frisco

Social Studies	1	10	Wakeland HS Frisco
	2	5	Centennial HS Frisco

Speech	1	10	Centennial HS Frisco
	2	5	Lone Star HS Frisco

Spelling and Vocabulary	1	10	Lone Star HS Frisco
	2	5	Centennial HS Frisco