JHS wins 9th straight UIL Academic District Championship

Joshua High School has won its ninth straight UIL Academic District Championship! JHS students racked up 584 points to give the campus its 16th title since 2006. The Owls' margin of victory of 298 points was more than the second-place team totaled.

Accounting 
• Team Champions
• Sarah Ingram - 1st - Advances to Region
• Jacob Pena - 2nd - Advances to Region
• Christina Sevilla - 6th - Advances to Region

Calculator Applications
• Austin Rees - 6th 

Computer Science 
• Team Champions - Advances to Region
• Nolan Girtz - 1st
• Austin Rees - 2nd
• Trevor Martin - 3rd
• Kyler Martin - 5th
• Lincoln Kolhagen - 6th

Current Issues and Events
• 2nd Place Team
• Gadiel Santana - 2nd - Advances to Region
• Lincoln Kolhagen - 4th
• Team also includes: Tobias Hollmann and Tobin Davis

Journalism
• Overall Journalism Team Award
• Payton Hewett - 1st Feature Writing, 3rd Editorial Writing, 5th Headline Writing - Advances to Region
• Autumn Jones - 1st Headline Writing, 3rd Copy Editing - Advances to Region
• Brian McCormick - 1st News Writing, 2nd Feature Writing, 3rd Headline Writing - Advances to Region
• Briana Rios - 2nd Editorial Writing - Advances to Region

Literary Criticism
• Team Champions - Advances to Region
• Lyla Walker - 1st - Advances to Region
• Audrey Villegas - 6th - Advances to Region
• Team also includes: Liam Flanigan and Shikah Pokhrel.

Mathematics
• Austin Rees - 3rd - Advances to Region

Ready Writing
• Haley Schooler - 6th

Social Studies 
• 2nd Place Team
• Savannah Trammell - 2nd - Advances to Region
• Gadiel Santana - 4th
• Subrav Pokhrel - 6th
• Team also includes: Briana Rios

Spelling and Vocabulary
• Team Champions - Advances to Region
• Lyla Walker - 1st
• Liam Flanigan - 4th
• Team also includes: Shikah Pokhrel and Audrey Villegas.

Speech and Debate 
• Team Champions
• Tobias Hollmann - 1st Persuasive Speaking - Advances to Region
• Presley Noojin - 3rd Persuasive Speaking - Advances to Region
• Kaylee Yuan - 4th Persuasive Speaking, 2nd Poetry Interpretation - Advances to Region
• Hiya Patel - 4th Poetry Interpretation
• Peter Mantilla - 2nd Prose Interpretation - Advances to Region
• Guadalupe Villanueva - 3rd Prose Interpretation - Advances to Region
• Payton Hewett - 5th Prose Interpretation
• Jacob Pena - 2nd Informative Speaking - Advances to Region
• Austin Rees - 3rd Informative Speaking - Advances to Region
• Tessa Wright - 3rd Lincoln Douglas Debate - Advances to Region
• Douglas Cowans - 4th Lincoln Douglas Debate
• Autumn Allen - 5th Lincoln Douglas Debate