Ganado High School will be sending five students to compete in the Class 2A, Region 4 UIL Academic Meet at the end of April.
Ganado finished fifth at the District 28-2A UIL Academic Meet held Friday at Victoria College.
Shiner won the meet with 520.333 points, followed by Weimar with 361, Schulenburg with 252.333, Flatonia with 156, Ganado with 155.333, Louise with 98, and Bloomington with 9.
Chandler Gabrysch won the Literary Criticism competition, which consists of an essay and multiple- choice test over literary terms, literary history, and several written works announced months prior; and Kara Tupa won the Ready Writing competition, which challenges students to choose one of two topics provided and write an essay on the spot.
Ganado students and teams who qualified for regionals or finished as an alternate include: Current Issues and Events, Team: 2nd, Ganado (Carter Kovar, Colby Cook, Gracie Moore, Briana Hoskins), Alternate.
Current Issues and Events, Individual: 5th, Carter Kovar, Alt.; 6th, Colby Cook, Alt.
Informative Speaking, Individual: 3rd, Gracie Moore, Regional Qualifier.
Lincoln Douglas Debate, Individual: 6th, Erika De La Torre, Alt.
Literary Criticism, Team: 2nd, Ganado (Chandler Gabrysch, Kara Tupa, Alina Ayala, Nevaeh Thedford), Alt.
Literary Criticism, Individual: 1st, Chandler Gabrysch, RQ; 4th, Kara Tupa, Alt.
Mathematics, Individual: Tie 5th, Cain Hayden, Alt.
Persuasive Speaking, Individual: 2nd, Colby Cook, RQ.
Ready Writing, Individual: 1st, Kara Tupa, RQ.
Science, Individual: 3rd, Trace Green, RQ Social Studies, Individual: 4th, Kara Tupa, Alt.
Spelling, Individual: 6th, Noah Susil, Alt.
The regional meet will be April 25-26 at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
