This past week the UIL Academic Team competed in the District Competition in Devine. Placing in events were:
In Computer Applications: 3rd place Johnny Paredes
In Current Events: 6th place Antonio Gonzales
In Headline Writing: 5th place Quinn Hout
In Literary Criticism: 4th place Adam Leyva
In Poetry Interpretation: 2nd place Victoria Simmons
In Prose: 2nd place Rachel Terzado
In Social Studies: 4th place Christopher Lacy. The Social Studies Team of Mauricio Castillo, Chris Lacy, Jacob Lytle, and Joseph Perez placed 2nd.
In Spelling: Maddi Gaylor placed 4th and Bri McDonald placed 1st, and the team of Maddi Gaylor, Bri McDonald, and Matthew San Miguel placed 1st as a team and will all be competing in Regionals.
Bri McDonald showed her senior experience during the week and brought home 3 gold medals and one 4th place. Bri placed:
1st in Spelling
1st in Feature Writing
1st in Editorial Writing
and 4th in news writing. She will be competing in 3 events at the Regional UIL Meet in April.
The Lytle Team had a lot to be proud of this year. The Freshmen and Sophomore classes havefilled the UIL team back up, and 6 out of the 8 coaches are new to their events. A big thanks goes to Joe Alaniz, Joe Lytle, Jessica Barney, Greg Michalak, Kayla Speaker, Mitch Hale and Hannah Lara Mueller for all their work.
Lytle High School