UIL students take district title

PHOTO BY CHERI JAY-WIENECKE Lometa students fared well at recent UIL contests, with a number of them moving to the next level of competition.

Months of effort and hours of practice yielded tremendous results for Lometa High School last week as UIL students dominated the competition to claim the District 29-A UIL Academics title.

Out-distancing its closest rival by well over 100 points -- not including the addition of the school's advancing One-Act Play and all-star point accumulation -- 13 Lometa students advanced to regional competition in Brenham next week.

"I am extremely happy that these students continued our school's longstanding tradition of academic excellence and winning the district UIL meet," said David Rice, Lometa ISD superintendent.

"They are a committed and hard-working group of young people and I am proud of their success."

Regional qualifiers were James Logsdon, Josh Logsdon, Shawnee Odom, Cassidy Wienecke, Alexis Ivey, Jessica Brooks, James Smith, Taylor Bradley, Kylie Bradley, Sam Pauly, Jasmine Vandergriff, Michelle Bearden and Elisha Whisenhunt.

The school also claimed team titles in Speaking and Literary Criticism. Also placing at the top were the Current Events, Calculator Applications and Spelling teams with second, and Number Sense with third.

District results follow:

Calculator Applications: 4. Marcy Garcia. 6. Michelle Bearden. 7. Martin Jasso; 10. Maria Jasso.

Current Events: 4. James Logsdon. 8. Sam Pauly. 9. James Smith. 18. Taylor Bradley.

Feature Writing: 2. Elisha Whisenhunt. 4. James Logsdon.

Headline Writing: 5. Elisha Whisenhunt.

Informative Speaking: 2. Taylor Bradley. 3. Cassidy Wienecke. 6. Curtis Crain.

Lincoln Douglas Debate: 1. Josh Logsdon. 2. James Logsdon. 3. Shawnee Odom.

Literary Criticism: 3. Kylie Bradley. 7. Cassidy Wienecke. 8. Michelle Bearden. 16. Jasmin Vandergriff.

Number Sense: 4. Josh Logsdon. 9. James Logsdon. 27. Dalton Parsons.

Persuasive Speaking: 2. Jessica Brooks. 3. James Smith. 4. James Logsdon.

Poetry: 1. Cassidy Wienecke. 3. Alexis Ivey. 6. Shoshanah Vandergriff.

Prose: 2. Kylie Bradley. 3. Sam Pauly.

Social Studies: 3. James Smith. 7. Elisha Whisenhunt.

Spelling: 2. (tie) Josh Logsdon and Cassidy Wienecke. 25. Cheyenne Burr.

Cross-Examination Debate: 1. Elisha Whisenhunt and Jessica Brooks. 3. Colt Maldonado and Cassidy Wienecke.