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(ARCHIVE PHOTO) Eighteen Newcastle High School students will be advancing to the UIL regional competition after their success at the district academic meet last week where they were named overall champions.
Eighteen Newcastle High School students will be advancing to the UIL regional competition after their success at the district academic meet last week where they were named overall champions.
The meet was held Friday, March 27 in Woodson with Newcastle teams placing first or second in almost every competition.
“Our team this year looks very different from the previous years as we graduated five seniors last year,” Newcastle mathematics and UIL teacher Courtney Bozeman said. “This year we are anchored by two strong veteran competitors, sophomore Cason Ford and senior Alba Adame, who have state experience and are both state champions.”
Bozeman said the other team members were new to the UIL mathematics competition, but were focused on continuing the success of the program for Newcastle. She said the students are excelling at number sense, calculator applications and mathematics.
“However, we can see the results from across the state and we know we came up short of our standards in our performance on the district test,” Bozeman said. “We have the target on our backs and all the top schools in 1A are looking at our scores and working hard with the intent to knock us off and win the state championship.”
Newcastle students also competed in the Texas Math and Science Coaches Association (TMSCA) competition in San Antonio held from March 19-21 and placed third overall in the 1A/2A Division.
Bozeman said she was pleased with the performance of the students at the TMSCA competition which allows her to enter all of her mathematics competition students and see how they stack up across the state against those in the 1A and 2A divisions.
UIL District Results
Accounting - 2nd place team
Camren Mallory - 2nd place
Ethan Baker
Kenzie King
Calculator Applications - 1st place team
Cason Ford - 1st place
Alba Adame - 2nd place
Ethan Baker - 3rd place
Addison Riley - 4th place
Copy Editing - 1st place team
Alba Adame - 1st place
Camren Mallory - 2nd place
Sara May - 3rd place
Current Events - 2nd place team
Rae’Lyn Bennett - 3rd place
Cooper Clayton
Sara May
Allison Melton
Editorial Writing - 1st place team
Kenzie King - 1st place
Alba Adame - 4th place
Allison Melton
Feature Writing - 1st place team
Bailey Youngblood - 2nd place
Lexi Gowens
Headline Writing - 1st place team
Rae’Lyn Bennett - 1st place
Sara May - 4th place
Allison Melton - 6th place
Literary Criticism - 1st place team
Kamalani Duffield - 1st place
Lexi Gowens - 4th place
Kinsey King
Kinzlee Sweat
Mathematics - 1st place team
Cason Ford - 1st place
Alba Adame - 2nd place
Addison Riley - 3rd place
Lexi Gowens - 4th place
News Writing - 1st place team
Alba Adame - 1st place
Rae’Lyn Bennett - 6th place
Kamalani Duffield
Number Sense - 1st place team
Cason Ford - 1st place
Addison Riley - 2nd place
Kinzlee Sweat - 3rd place
Lucas Gonzalez
Persuasive Speaking - 2nd place team
Kynlee Humphrey - 4th place
Poetry - 2nd place team
Kinsey Hawkins - 1st place
Flor Carranza - 2nd place
Lyla Dixon - 5th place
Prose - 2nd place team
Grayson Nunez - 4th place
Ready Writing
Jayden Ballard - 6th place
Kamalani Duffield
Kynlee Humphrey
Science - 1st place team
Cason Ford - 1st place, Chemistry
Lucas Gonzalez - 2nd place, Biology
Addison Riley
Jayden Ballard
Spelling
Kamalani Duffield
Bailey Youngblood
Keawe Duffield
Social Studies - 1st place team
Ethan Baker - 1st place
Kynlee Humphrey - 2nd place
Cooper Clayton
Bryce Moulder
