Four of our high schools went to Sacramento for the weekend's statewide competition in the 30th annual California Academic Decathlon. Here's how they did:
- West High, 14th overall
- Torrance High, 16th overall
- South High, 26th overall
- Redondo Union High, 31st overall
Moorpark High from Ventura County won first place. LAUSD's El Camino Real from Woodland Hills came in second.
West, South and Redondo students scooped up some individual medals. Students can medal in each of seven subject-based tests plus speech, interview and essay competition. Nine-member teams are divided into three subsets by GPA and each subset has medals.
West High medals (from coach Ann Cortina)
--Patrick Xiao, gold in math
--Albert Lee, bronze in math
--Daniel Beckmann, gold in social science
South High medals (from coach Deborah Maculey)
--Jamie Chang, gold in art, bronze in music
--Luxas Hahn, gold in economics, silver in social science
--Esther Kim, silver in economics, bronze in social science
--Danny Dai, bronze in social science
--Neelofer Shaikh, bronze in social science
Redondo Union High medals (from coach Julie Ferron)
--Ryan Mendias, gold in essay
--Veronica Romeo, gold in interview, silver in speech
--Michael Wood, silver in math, silver in interview
--Stephanie Crowley, silver in language/lit, silver in art
--Lori Rodriguez, bronze in math, bronze in Super Quiz
(Please note that these are subject to correction once the state's Academic Decathlon organization posts final results on Tuesday.)
*OK, results are up (PDF) listing all the individual awards. Two big local achievements that we didn't know about Monday: Daniel Naphas of Torrance High came in third out of all participants and Patrick Xiao of West High came in 10th. Congrats, guys!
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