Cortlyn Dees
Canyon High School earned the 2014 district 3-AAA academic championship.
Students on the UIL Academic Team competed in the District 3-4A Academic meet at West Texas A&M University Thursday, March 20 and the One-Act cast and crew competed Tuesday, March 25 at Amarillo College. Canyon High School won first place with a total of 477 points.
Students placed in numerous events including accounting, calculator applications, current issues and events, computer applications, computer science, editorial writing, feature writing, headline writing, informative speaking, literary criticism, spelling and vocabulary, mathematics, number sense, news writing, ready writing, persuasive speaking, prose interpretations, poetry interpretations, CX debate and social studies. Students who placed in the top three will advance to the regional meet May 2-3 in Abilene. The state meet will be held May 19-21 in Austin.
“UIL is a great program that allows you to strengthen your abilities in many different areas,” sophomore Quade Salazar said. “It has really given me an idea on how to handle myself publicly and professionally, because if a debate between you and a person is good enough, who wins comes down to how did you dress, are you a natural speaker, how confident are you? I’ve been told by many adults that those are defining factors in real life interviews.”
Junior Abby Caviness said she participates to learn more about journalism.
“For me, it’s not about competing and getting a medal,” Caviness said. “If I place, it’s about learning how to better my paper. My favorite part about contest is getting my paper back and seeing what I got points counted off for and see what I needed to do better. I always do my absolute best and try to place first, but it’s not my first thought when it comes to contest.”
Individual Event Results. Click on event to see a UIL video explaining the event. Click here to see results for entire district on UIL website.
Accounting – Coach: Michaeleen Bainum
1st – Chance Turner*
5th – Macy Wright
Calculator Applications – Coach: Marlene Taylor
1st – Landon Work*
Computer Applications – Coach: Lance Culbert
3rd – Malea McWest*
Computer Science- Coach: Lance Culbert
1st – Josh Fetsch*
4th – Calvin Rueda
Current Issues & Events – Coach: Joel Cochran
2nd – Pate Salazar*
Editorial Writing – Coach: Laura Smith
1st – Cortlyn Dees*
2nd – Tasha Brown*
6th – Kori Adair
Feature Writing – Coach: Laura Smith
1st – Erin Westermann*
2nd – Abby Caviness*
4th – Kori Adair
Headline Writing – Coach: Laura Smith
1st – Callie Boren*
Informative Speaking – Coach: Stefanie Suto
1st – Quade Salazar*
6th – Garet Wilhelm
Literary Criticism – Coach: Jamie Crosswhite
3rd – Georgia Hansen*
6th – Courtney Karr
Mathematics – Coach: Marlene Taylor
1st – Landon Work*
Number Sense – Coach: Marlene Taylor
2nd (tie) – Landon Work*
5th – Callie Boren
News Writing – Coach: Laura Smith
1st – Allison Koontz*
2nd – Cortlyn Dees*
3rd – Tasha Brown*
Persuasive Speaking – Coach: Stefanie Suto
5th – Bella Barnett
Poetry Interpretation – Coach: Stefanie Suto
3rd – Lucy Frish*
Prose Interpretation – Coach: Stefanie Suto
1st – Amy Clayton*
2nd – Bella Barnett*
5th – Kendall Tipton
Ready Writing – Coach: Laura Smith
2nd – Josh Collins*
4th – Ashley Vanderford
Social Studies – Coach: Andrew Neighbors
5th – Andrew Walsh
Spelling & Vocabulary – Coach: Jamie Crosswhite
5th – Trevor Macklin
* = Regional Qualifier
Ranking Team Events
Accounting – 1st Place*
Calculator Applications – 2nd Place
Currents Issues & Events – 1st Place*
Computer Science – 2nd Place
CX Debate – CHS Team 1, 1st Place; CHS Team 2, 2nd Place
Journalism – 1st Place
Literary Criticism – 2nd Place
Mathematics – 2nd Place
Number Sense – 2nd Place
Speech – 2nd Place