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Students qualify for state academic meet
From left to right, Cypress Ridge students Fernando Morales, Daniel Ortiz and Ryan Stephenson celebrate their school’s first-place team win in the Speech category at the UIL Region III Academics Meet last weekend in Katy. Morales placed fourth in Prose Interpretation to qualify as a state alternate, while Ortiz and Stephenson automatically qualified by placing second in Poetry Interpretation and Informative Speaking, respectively. |
April 19, 2011 — Twelve CFISD individual students and three teams qualified for the UIL State Academic Meet after placing in the top three in 25 events at the Region III meet April 15-16 at Seven Lakes High School in Katy.
Cypress Woods High School finished with the fourth-highest overall point total in the region with 114, while Cypress Creek High School placed sixth with 84 points. Other schools earning points were Cypress Ridge (54), Cypress Falls (15), Cypress Springs (15) and Cypress Ranch (8) high schools.
The following students qualified for state, which is scheduled for May 5-7 at the University of Texas:
Individual Qualifiers |
Event |
Student / High School |
Place |
Computer Applications |
Darius Xu, Cypress Woods |
1 |
Thomas Lam, Cypress Woods |
3 |
Lincoln Douglas Debate |
Brian Hodge, Cypress Falls |
1 |
Ready Writing |
Lindsay Oncken, Cypress Woods |
1 |
News Writing |
Christine Nguyen, Cypress Creek |
1 |
Poetry Interpretation |
Carunya Achar, Cypress Creek |
1 |
Daniel Ortiz, Cypress Ridge |
2 |
Accounting |
Ian Echols, Cypress Woods |
2 |
Computer Science |
Harry Dibenedetto, Cypress Woods |
2 |
Informative Speaking |
Ryan Stephenson, Cypress Ridge |
2 |
Persuasive Speaking |
Yasmin Alaoui, Cypress Ridge |
2 |
Literary Criticism |
Jordan Jones, Cypress Woods |
3 |
Team Qualifiers |
Event |
Student/High School |
Place |
Speech |
Cypress Ridge High School |
1 |
| Journalism |
Cypress Creek High School |
3 |
Computer Science |
Cypress Woods High School |
Wild Card |
“This team has worked so much this year, with so many of the students being self-motivated,” said Crystal Link, Cypress Ridge speech and debate coach, regarding her team’s first-place award in the Speech category. “I am so proud that their hard work and effort has been rewarded and can’t wait to see them compete in Austin.”
Other students and teams that placed in the top six are:
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Wynne Davis, Cypress Creek, fourth place (state alternate), Feature Writing; Christine Nguyen, Cypress Creek, fourth place (state alternate), Headline Writing; Ty Joplin, Cypress Woods, fourth place (state alternate), Lincoln Douglas Debate; Laura Elizondo, Cypress Woods, fourth place (state alternate), Persuasive Speaking; Anita Wilson, Cypress Springs, fourth place (state alternate), Poetry Interpretation; Fernando Morales, Cypress Ridge, fourth place (state alternate), Prose Interpretation; Luke Tseng, Cypress Woods, fifth place, Computer Science; Cypress Woods High School, fifth place (tie), Speech; and Andrew Liu, Cypress Woods, sixth place, Computer Science.
Additionally, the cast and crew of the Cypress Creek High School one-act play, The Farnsworth Invention, will advance to the state meet after placing in the top two at the Region III One-Act Play competition on April 16 at San Jacinto College.
The Farnsworth Invention is directed by Marilyn Miller, Alexander Garza and Marilyn Ocker. Cast members are Justin Salinas, Morgyn Utzman, Brianna Ripkowski, Nathan Crooks, Allan Lawrence, Jon Cozart, Cesar Escalante, Brice Phillips, Brandon Blake, Natalie Tischler, Nat Margolis, Nick Hall, Aaron Lloyd, Lauren Harsany and Alex Martinez. Crew members are Erin Jensen, Lizzi Cook, Lindsey Vrana, Hayley Morlock and Helen Hoang. Alternates are Ian Alexander and Will Haralson.
Cypress Ridge students Ryan Stephenson and Yasmin Alaoui look forward to competing in the UIL State Academic Meet May 5-7 in Austin after placing second in Informative Speaking and Persuasive Speaking, respectively, at the regional competition. |
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