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5/3/07:
Wimberley High
School was the Sweepstakes Runner-Up at the UIL Academics State Meet in
Austin this past weekend, 4 1/2 points behind the winner. Those students
contributing to this wonderful achievement are: ONE-ACT PLAY Zane Gordon-Bouzard - All Star Cast Walker Pickens - Honorable Mention All Star Cast SOCIAL STUDIES - 1st Team Karl Flocke - 4th Malcolm McLean - 5th Lorrie Cope Zach Burke PROSE INTERPRETATION Chris Bakka - 5th CURRENT EVENTS - 2nd Team Karl Flocke - 1st (with the highest score in all the conferences!!!) Kendra Williams - 4th Daniel Willis Kate Fulkerson LITERARY CRITICISM - 2nd Team Celeste Riepe - 6th Jennifer Cloudt Hannah Bryan Grace Whisenant Recognition also needs to go to Kirk Lake, coach of the Social Studies and Current Events Teams; Gary Wyatt, director of the One-Act Play; and Lydia Miller-Wyatt, coach of the Speech and Literary Criticism teams. Other UIL coaches who have contributed to this year's success are: Pam McClintock, Brent Warren, Mary Latham, and Marty Wise. |
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4/14/07:
Wimberley High
School's UIL Academic team won Sweepstakes at the Regional Meet in
Kingsville Saturday. Several individuals and teams will advance to the State
Meet in Austin May 3, 4 and 5. The top three individuals in each contest will advance and the entire top team will also advance. CURRENT EVENTS - 1st Team 1st - Kendra Williams 2nd - Daniel Willis 5th - Karl Flocke 7th - Kate Fulkerson FEATURE WRITING 2nd - Chris Bakka HEADLINE WRITING 2nd- Walker Pickens LITERARY CRITICISM - 1st Team 1st - Celeste Riepe 4th - Hannah Bryan 6th - Jennifer Cloudt PERSUASIVE SPEAKING 4th - Kate Fulkerson PROSE INTERPRETATION 2nd - Chris Bakka SCIENCE 3rd - Kendra Williams SOCIAL STUDIES - 1st Team 2nd - Lorrie Cope 3rd - Karl Flocke 4th - Malcolm McLean 6th - Zach Burke |
| 4/13/07: "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", WHS's entry in the UIL One-Act Play Contest, advanced to the STATE Meet at the Regional OAP Contest in Kingsville Friday night. Zane Gordon-Bouzard was named Best Actor with Annie Bond and Chris Bakka on the All-Star Cast and Andy Patoski on the Honorable Mention All-Star Cast. This is the seventh year in a row for WHS to compete in the State Meet. The contest will be on May 3 in Bass Concert Hall on the UT campus. |
| 3/31/07: "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," WHS's UIL One-Act Play entry, advanced to the REGIONAL meet. Zane Gordon-Bouzard was named Best Actor. Chris Bakka and Annie Bond were named to the All-Star Cast. The REGIONAL competition will take place on Friday, April 13th at Texas A&M - Kingsville. Time to be announced on the Lone Star Theatre web site. |
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3/31/07:
The WHS Academic UIL Team took the District Championship for the 15th year
in a row. The students performed wonderfully - as you can see below: ACCOUNTING - 1st Team 1st - Austin Mason 3rd - Stephen Peyton 4th - Kailin Goforth 5th - Travis Bone CALCULATOR APPLICATIONS - 1st Team 1st - Daniel Willis 2nd - Tyler Turk 4th - Colton Anderson 6th - Johnny Mathews CURRENT ISSUES & EVENTS - 1st Team 1st - Kendra Williams 2nd - Karl Flocke 3rd - Daniel Willis COMPUTER APPLICATIONS 3rd - Stephen Peyton 4th - Myca Bowen-Taylor COMPUTER SCIENCE 6th - hasitha Dharmasiri EDITORIAL WRITING 3rd - Chris Bakka 5th - Walker Pickens FEATURE WRITING 3rd - Chris Bakka 6th - Walker Pickens HEADLINE WRITING 1st - Walker Pickens 5th - Chris Bakka 6th - Hannah Bryan INFORMATIVE EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING 4th - Chelsea LeFevre 5th - Mallory Watson 6th - Holly Hayes LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATE 3rd - Chelsea LeFevre LITERARY CRITICISIM - 1st Team 1st - Celeste Riepe 3rd - Jennifer Cloudt 5th - Grace Whisenant MATHEMATICS - 2nd Team 1st - Daniel Willis 6th - Kendra Williams NUMBER SENSE - 1st Team 1st - Daniel Willis 5th - Luke Ellis 6th - Tommy Yankovoy NEWS WRITING 4th - Walker Pickens 5th - Chris Bakka PERSUASIVE EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING 1st - Kate Fulkerson 4th - Calen Cabler 5th - Stacy Raby POETRY INTERPRETATION 1st - Elena Weinberg 6th - Austen Cabler PROSE INTERPRETATION 1st - Chris Bakka 2nd - Annie Bond READY WRITING 1st - Chris Bakka 3rd - Celeste Riepe SCIENCE - 1st Team 1st - Kendra Williams (1st Biology, 1st Chemistry, 1st Physics) 3rd - Daniel Willis 5th - Hasitha Dharmasira SOCIAL STUDIES - 1st Team 1st - Karl Flocke 6th - Malcolm McLean All 1st place teams and the top 3 finishers have qualified for the Regional Meet in Kingsville April 13, 14. |
| 3/23/07: "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," WHS's UIL One-Act Play entry, advanced to the AREA meet. Zane Gordon-Bouzard was named Best Actor. Chris Bakka, Annie Bond and Andrew Patoski were named to the All-Star Cast. Honorable Mention All Star Cast honors went to Cameron Allen and Harry Tork. The AREA competition will take place on Saturday, April 7th at Schretz-Steele. Time to be announced. |
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1/27/07: The WHS UIL Academics Team had the following results at the
Round Rock Invitational Tournament: CURRENT EVENTS - 1st Team Karl Flocke - 1st Daniel Willis - 2nd Kendra Williams - 3rd SOCIAL STUDIES - 1st Team Malcolm McLean - 6th Daniel Willis Lorrie Cope SCIENCE - 1st Team Kendra Williams - 1st Overall, 1st Chemistry Daniel Willis - 3rd Overall Malcolm McLean LITERARY CRITICISM Grace Whisenant - 5th NOVICE CX DEBATE Chris Blab/Jacob Giere - Quarterfinals NOVICE LD DEBATE Summer Wilson - Quarterfinals A total of 54 schools (mostly 4A and 5A) were in competition. |
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12/9/06:
The UIL Academic Team did extremely well at the Bandera UIL Invitational
tournament. LITERARY CRITICISM - 1st Team Celeste Riepe - 1st Grace Whisenant - 2nd Jennifer Cloudt - 3rd Hannah Bryan - 4th CURRENT EVENTS - 1st Team Kendra Williams - 1st Karl Flocke - 2nd Tyler Frazier - 7th ACCOUNTING - 1st Team Stephen Peyton - 5th Kailan Goforth - 6th (tie) Austin Mason - 6th (tie) SOCIAL STUDIES - 2nd Team Lorrie Cope - 2nd Karl Flocke Kendra Williams SCIENCE Kendra Williams - 3rd (1st Chemistry, 1st Physics) Laura Sudderth - 3rd (novice division) READY WRITING Mia Huey - 4th EDITORIAL WRITING Hannah Bryan - 4th HEADLINE WRITING Hannah Bryan - 2nd |
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11/4/06:
The WHS
Speech/Debate Team was Sweepstakes Runner-up at the LaVernia Invitational
Tournament. Those placing were: PROSE Annie Bond - 1st Chris Bakka -2nd Calen Cabler - 4th Walker Pickens - reached the Semis POETRY Austen Cabler - 4th Elena Weinberg - reached the Semis Dylan Bakka - reached the Semis LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATE Chelsea LeFevre - 3rd CROSS-EXAMINATION DEBATE Chris Gooch/Jacob Giere - reached the Quarterfinals |
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4/21/06: "Man Of La Mancha,"
WHS's UIL One-Act Play entry, advanced to the STATE
meet. Brooke Shedd was named
Best Actress and
Cole Sutera was Best Actor.
Zane Gordon-Bouzard and
Patrick Byers were named to the
All-Star Cast. This is the 6th year
in a row for WHS to advance to the State Meet. The competition
will take place on Thursday, May 4. The performances start at 4 pm in
Bass Concert Hall. Wimberley performs in 3rd position. |
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4/21/06:
The WHS UIL Academic
Team won the Regional Meet sweepstakes Saturday.
SCIENCE - 1st Team CURRENT EVENTS
- 1st Team SOCIAL STUDIES
- 1st Team LITERARY
CRITICISM - 2nd Team HEADLINE
WRITING PROSE
INTERPRETATION INFORMATIVE
EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING
LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATE |
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4/8/06: "Man
Of La Mancha," WHS's entry in the UIL One-Act Play contest, advanced to
REGIONALS.
Brooke Shedd was awarded
Best Actress. Named to the All-Star Cast were
Cole Sutera, Patrick Byers and
Zane Gordon-Bouzard, while
Bryan Chafin was named to
the Honorable Mention All-Star Cast. The
REGIONAL Contest will be held in Kingsville, TX on Friday, April 21st. |
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3/30/06:
The WHS UIL Academic
Team won
District
(AGAIN) with several teams and individuals advancing to Regional at
Kingsville on April 21/22. The Academic Team scored a total of 348.33
points to its closest competitor, Bandera, which had 277 points. Those
advancing and placing are:
Current Events Team
– 1st
Headline Writing
Lincoln-Douglas
Debate
Literary Criticism
Team – 1st
Mathematics – 2nd
Team
Persuasive
Extemporaneous Speaking
Poetry
Interpretation
Prose Interpretation
Ready Writing
Science Team – 1st
Social Studies Team
– 1st |
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3/23/06: "Man
Of La Mancha," WHS's entry in the UIL One-Act Play contest, advanced to AREA.
Cole Sutera was awarded
Best Actor. Named to the All-Star Cast were
Patrick Byers and
Zane Gordon-Bouzard, while
Bryan Chafin and
Brooke Shedd were named to
the Honorable Mention All-Star Cast.
Faith Chonko
was named to the Honor Crew. The AREA Contest will begin
at 1:00 PM in the Wimberley
Lone Star Theatre on Saturday, April 8. "Man Of La Mancha" will perform
third. |
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3/14/06
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Results
from the
State 3A Debate
Tournament: Matt Howard and Malone Allen brought home the first State Championship in Cross-Examination Debate in Wimberley High School history. The State CX Tournament was held on the UT-Austin campus March 13-14. While 64 teams started the tournament, only 16 remained on the second day. Seeded 15th, the team went undefeated the second day, winning the final debate against Lindale by a 3-0 decision. One finals judge, Terri Robinson of Georgetown (who was the framer of this year's debate question), said, "It was the best debate I've seen in years. I want a copy of the videotape to use as a teaching tool." This was the second year for Matt and Malone to qualify for the State Meet. They are also two-time District Champions!!! |
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1/28/06
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Results
from the
Round Rock Invitational: For the second year in a row, Lane Schwager won 1st place in Poetry Interpretation. That feat had never been accomplished in the history of the tournament. The CX Debate team of Matt Howard and Malone Allen won 1st, making it the first team in the history of WHS to do so. Reaching the Quarterfinals in CX were Lorrie Cope and Lanel Land. Also reaching the Quarterfinals was Chelsea LeFevre in Lincoln-Douglas debate. The Current Events Team won 1st place, with Kendra Williams placing 1st, Ruth Bryan 2nd, Daniel Willis 3rd, and Chris Dealing 5th. The Social Studies Team also won 1st place (great job, Mr. Lake!!! two first teams!), with Chris Dealing placing 3rd, Zach Burke 5th, and Ruth Bryan 6th. The Science Team took 2nd Team, with Chris Dealing placing 1st overall and Scott Sudderth placing 5th. Chase Patterson placed 1st in Biology. (Yea, Doc Richards!) Forty-two (42) schools competed in this tournament. These students and coaches deserve hearty congratulations. |
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1/14/06
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Results
from the Bandera Tournament:
Number Sense -
Zack Doran - 3rd
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1/7/06 -
The WHS
Forensics Team won Runner-up Sweepstakes at the Blanco Invitational
Speech/Debate Tournament. Those placing were: Cameron McClure - 1st - Novice Lincoln-Douglas Debate Cole Sutera - 1st - Poetry Interpretation Lorrie Cope/Lanel Land - 2nd - Novice Cross-Examination Debate Chelsea LeFevre - 3rd - Varsity Lincoln-Douglas Debate Matt Howard/Malone Allen - Quarterfinals - Varsity Cross-Examination Debate Annie Bond - 7th - Prose Interpretation |
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5/9/05 -
"The
Beggar's Opera", WHS's entry in the One-Act Play State Meet, placed
2nd. Helyn
Messenger
was named Best Actress and the winner of the Samuel French Award.
Zane
Gordon-Bouzard
was named to the All-Star Cast and Cole
Sutera was
on the Honorable Mention All-Star Cast. J. Gary Wyatt and Lydia
Miller-Wyatt are the directors.
The Science Team won 1st Place. Austin Deuschner placed 2nd overall. Ray Skunda was 1st in Chemistry for the second year in a row. This is the 6th State title for Dr. Ron Richards. The Current Events Team, coached by Kirk Lake, placed 2nd. Tony McDonald was 2nd overall, with Chris Dealing 5th. The Social Studies Team, also coached by Kirk Lake, placed 3rd. Tony McDonald was 2nd overall. Will Harrison placed 6th in Persuasive Extemporaneous Speaking. He is coached by Lydia Miller-Wyatt. Wimberley tied for 3rd place in Sweepstakes. |
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4/23/05 -
Several WHS
students advanced to the UIL
Academic State Meet
in Austin on May 5-7. In addition to the One-Act Play, other Regional
winners are:
1st Team
- Current Events 1st Team
- Social Studies 1st Team
- Science Julia Trinidad - 2nd - Poetry Interpretation Cole Sutera - 6th - Poetry Interpretation Will Harrison - 3rd - Persuasive Speaking | Quarterfinalist - Lincoln-Douglas Debate Bonnie Cope - 6th - Literary Criticism Clay Smith - 6th - Computer Science |
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3/31/05 - In
one of the closest battles in recent years, the WHS UIL Academic Team won
the District
Championship
by 9 points. This is the 14th consecutive year WHS has been
District Champion.
* indicates advancing to Regional Science -
1st Team* Current
Events - 1st Team* Social
Studies - 1st Team* Literary
Criticism - 1st Team* Computer
Science Journalism Poetry
Interpretation Prose
Interpretation Lincoln-Douglas
Debate Ready
Writing Mathematics Computer
Applications Informative
Speaking Number
Sense Spelling This success would not have been possible without the dedication and hard work of the Academic Coaches: Tim
Bjerke *
Pam McClintock *
Ron Richards *
Dick Smith |
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2/8/05
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DISTRICT
CHAMPIONS -
The Cross-Examination Debate Team of Matt
Howard and Malone
Allen won 1st
place at the UIL District CX Debate Tournament in Ingram. They now
advance to the State
Meet
in Austin March 14.
Please wish
them luck! |
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2/5/05 -
The Cross-Examination Debate Team of
Matt Howard
and
Malone Allen
won
1st place
at the Abilene Wylie Debate Tournament.
They had a perfect undefeated record.
Please wish them well, as they compete at the District CX tournament
Tuesday, February 8th in Ingram. |
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1/29/05 -
The WHS UIL
Academic Team won Runner-up Sweepstakes at the Round Rock UIL
Invitational meet.
Poetry
Interpretation Current
Events - 1st Team Science -
2nd Team Literary
Criticism Social
Studies News
Writing Editorial
Writing Headline
Writing The Cross
Examination Debate Team of Matt Howard/Malone Allen reached the
quarterfinals. |
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1/22/05 -
The WHS Science Team, coached by 5-time State Champion coach Ron
Richards, won First
Place
at the O'Connor Spring Invitational Tournament.
12th Grade Kevin O'Brien - 2nd | Ray Skunda - 6th | Ian Howe - 8th 11th Grade Chris Dealing - 1st | Scott Sudderth - 3rd | Biology - Kevin O'Brien - 3rd Chemistry - Ray Skunda - 3rd Physics - Kevin O'Brien -2nd Mathematics
- Chris
Dealing - 7th (11th Grade) |
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1/8/05 -
The WHS Forensics Team won
Sweepstakes
at the Blanco Speech/Debate Tournament, while the UIL Academic Team placed
2nd
at the Blanco Academic Tournament. |
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Those
placing in Speech & Debate were:
Julia Trinidad - 1st - Persuasive Extemporaneous Speaking / 3rd - Poetry Interpretation Will Harrison - 2nd - Persuasive Extemporaneous Speaking Lane Schwager - 2nd - Poetry Interpretation Lara Hardeman - 3rd - Prose Interpretation Annie Bond - 6th - Prose Interpretation Matt Howard/Malone Allen - 3rd - Cross-Examination Debate |
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placing in Academics were:
Tony McDonald - 1st - Current Events / 4th - Social Studies Bonnie Cope - 1st - Literary Criticism / 5th - Spelling Austin Deschner - 1st - Science Tyler Smith - 2nd - Feature Writing / 3rd - Headline Writing / 4th - Editorial Writing / 6th - News Writing Andy Patoski - 3rd - Editorial Writing Andrew Glasscock - 3rd - Science Lorrie Cope - 4th - Spelling Zach Doran - 4th - Number Sense Clay Smith - 4th - Computer Science / 4th - Headline Writing / 4th - Feature Writing Dani Folks - 5th - Computer Applications Ashley Peyton - 5th - Current Events Ray Skunda - 5th - Science Emma Vann
- 6th - Ready Writing |
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11/13/04 - The Wimberley UIL Academic Team won Sweepstakes at the Giddings Invitational UIL Academic Tournament. This is the 8th year in a row that WHS has won the top trophy. Students placing were: |
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NEWS WRITING
POETRY INTERPRETATION
Clay Smith -
1st FEATURE WRITING Clay Smith - 1st PROSE INTERPRETATION Tyler Smith -
2nd EDITORIAL WRITING Annie Bond -
6th INFORMATIVE EXTEMP SPEAKING Johnathan Gooch - 5th SCIENCE - 1st Team Kevin O'Brien -
2nd |
HEADLINE
WRITING
Tyler Smith - 1st CROSS-EXAMINATION DEBATE Clay Smith -
5th COMPUTER APPLICATIONS Megan McCarty - 6th SOCIAL STUDIES T. J. Giere -
3rd SPELLING Lorrie Cope - 4th COMPUTER SCIENCE Clay Smith - 2nd LITERARY CRITICISM - 1st Team Bonnie Cope -
1st CURRENT EVENTS Tony McDonald -
1st |
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11/6/04 - The WHS Forensics Team (speech/debate) won Sweepstakes! The following students won individual awards: POETRY
INTERPRETATION PROSE
INTERPRETATION PERSUASIVE
EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING LINCOLN-DOUGLAS
DEBATE CROSS-EXAMINATION
DEBATE |
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