NHS academic UIL team in Livingston

Nacogdoches High School’s Academic UIL Team won the overall title at a competition in Livingston last weekend. The NHS team was the top point winner and also brought home first place trophies in speech, current events and journalism.

Individual medalists include:

Olivia Ajero, 1st place number sense, 2nd place mathematics

Justin Phillips, 1st place current events, 2nd place informative speaking, 4th place social studies, 6th place copy editing

Mel Chandler-Ezell, 4th place current events

Charlie Hodge, 2nd place current events, 4th place informative speaking

Anna Gutierrez, 2nd place Lincoln-Douglas debate

JaBrandon Chatman, 2nd place cross-examination (CX) debate

Jean Choi and Abigail Allman, 3rd place CX debate

Jean Choi, 1st place persuasive speaking

Mark Sifuentes, 1st place editorial writing, 3rd place news writing, 3rd place headline writing

Elia Leon, 1st place feature writing, 4th place news writing, 4th place editorial writing

Rogelio Garcia, 3rd place informative speaking

Trenton Littleton, 6th place informative speaking