Academic Decathlon team aces regional meet, heads to state in March

The HPHS Academic Decathlon team brought home the first-place trophy from the Region X Meet Feb. 9, with a team score of 48,139 points. HP will advance to the state meet to be held March 8-10 in Frisco.

Individual overall winners for each division included:

Lucas Francisco - First place overall, Scholastic Division
Jenny Feng - Third place overall, Scholastic Division
Jules Heatley - Fourth place overall, Honor Division
McKenna Jordan - Fifth place overall, Varsity Division

Individual top-three medal winners included:

Honor Division

Jules Heatley, 8,948 pts:
- Third place, Math
- First place, Literature
- Second place, Art
- Third place, Social Science
- Third place, Speech
Jean Ye, 8,658 pts:
- First place, Math
- Second place, Music
- Second place, Literature
- First place, Social Science
Allison Baker, 7,999 pts:
- Second place, Literature
- Third place, Art
- Third place, Interview

Varsity Division

McKenna Jordan, 7,269 pts:
- Second place, Math
- Second place, Music
- First place, Literature
- First place, Social Science
Jack Slates, 6,882 pts:
- Third place, Literature
- Second place, Speech

Scholastic Division

Lucas Francisco, 8,269 pts:
- First place, Music
- First place, Economics
- Third place, Literature
- First place, Art
- First place, Social Science
Jenny Feng, 8,113 pts:
- First place, Math
- First place, Economics
- Third place, Science
- Second place, Art
- First place, Interview
- First place, Speech
Alvin Zou, 7,783 pts:
- Second place, Math
- Third place, Economics
- First place, Science
- Second place, Literature

In Super Quiz Relay, the team placed second, answering 30 out of 39 questions correctly.

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