Dateline: April 3, 2003
CHS UIL team sweeps contest
By Ashlee Kidd, Clarendon Enterprise
Clarendon
High School swept the competition away last week when 13 members of the
CHS academic team advanced to the regional UIL meet.
Clarendon
won the competition at Amarillo College by beating out 11 others schools
in District 2-1A.
Taylor Shelton led CHS in the competition walking away with three first place medals and one for second place and by himself had more points than both the Memphis High School and the Shamrock High School Academic teams.
Shelton
placed first in Current Issues and Events, News Writing, and Headline
Writing and second place in Editorial Writing, qualifying for regional
competition in all four events.
Lacey
Anderberg won two medals in the competition placing first in Editorial
writing and second in Persuasive Speaking.
Valerie Taylor was first in Literary Criticism, and Matt Aaron was fifth, leading the Literary Criticism team to a first place victory. Taylor also placed fifth in Ready Writing. Other members of the team include Shanna Shelton and Stephanie Fowler.
Carmen
Hamilton took first place in Spelling and led the spelling team to a first
place finish. The spelling
team consisted of Hamilton, Tim Sears, Joaenea Horn, and Andrea
Findley.
Vanna
Holton finished with a first place win in Lincoln Douglas Debate.
Eric
Pitts captured a first place medal in Ready Writing, and Ashlee Kidd
carried home a second place medal in Feature Writing.
Other
participants in the UIL competition included Sarah Depew, who placed fifth
in Feature Writing and fourth in News Writing; Tim Leeper sixth in
science, Jessie Anderberg who placed
sixth in Poetry; Sarah Ray who took fourth in Prose; Kensy Morrow who
placed fifth in Editorials; Robert Shelton fifth in Persuasive
Speaking; Branson Carter, third in Social Studies; Jamie Simmons, fourth
in Social Studies; and James Williams, seventh in Social Studies.
Those
participants qualifying for regional competition will travel to South
Plains College April 10-11.