One is the best rating in UIL fine arts performances and its what the Redhawks choir mostly scored in their UIL competition with the non-varsity treble choir, and varsity treble choir earning 1’s across the board, while the school’s first mixed choir entry since 2018 scoring a 1 for stage performance.

“I’m really excited about how they did at UIL because the contest itself has been evolving over the years and they’ve started making things a little harder and just watching everybody rise to those challenges has been super impressive,” Ugolini sai. “It’s been an incredibly successful year just on paper like all of the choirs got straight 1’s on stage which is the best you can do and then did ‘excellence in superiors’ in sight reading, and so from that perspective it’s great but it’s also cool to watch them rise to those challenges and take individual accountability with their own skills to ensure that our choir was the best it could be, so I’m incredibly happy.”

Most choir performances are in front of an audiences of family, friends, and fellow students, but UIL is performed in front of judges, but for sophomore Analise Serna, the judge’s reaction filled her with pride.

“The highlight for the whole experience for me was towards the very end of our last song (“Birdsong”), which is an extremely emotional piece. I started feeling the joy that the composer meant for it to be presented with,” Serna said. “When the music stopped and the judges clapped, I felt so much pride in myself and my peers. It’s a feeling that really can’t be replicated anywhere but on stage.”