Paradise High School

UIL Academics

Students Compete at Regional Meet

UIL Academics competed at the regional level at Tarleton State University in Stephenville on Saturday, April 20th. Hunter Anthony placed fifth in Computer Applications, coached by Rhea Mitschke, and was only two points out of placing third, which would have advanced to state.

In all, we had 29 Paradise High School students advance to the regional level of competition in either one-act play, academics, or both. Eight students competed in both one-act play and in one or more academic events.

Paradise Competes at District Meet

BROCK-Last week, on Monday, March 25th (writing events) and Thursday, March 28th (all other academic events), approximately 50 students represented Paradise High School in 21 different academic events. We had many successes those two days, and as a result, we are taking 17 students on to regional competition at Tarleton State University in Stephenville that will take place on April 20. As an academic team, we came in 3rd against some stiff competition from Brock and Ponder.

Here are the results of this year's district meet: (* - advancing to regionals; ** - regional alternate):

Calculator Applications

  • Amy Walton – 6th place

    • Current Issues and Events

  • *Hannah Eisen – 2nd place

    • Computer Applications:

  • *Hunter Anthony – 2nd place
  • *Blake Bryant – 3rd place
  • **Stormie Lamb – 4th place

    • Computer Science

  • Blake Bryant – 3rd place
  • Colby Dial – 6th place
  • *1st place team: Blake Bryant, Colby Dial, Chance Dial, Brandon Lopez

    • Editorial Writing

  • *Katy Skogberg – 1st place

    • Feature Writing

  • *Jarrett Roper – 3rd place
  • Taylor Rector – 5th place

    • Headline Writing

  • *Jacob Owens – 1st place
  • Zach Fletcher – 6th place

    • Informative Speaking

  • *Sierra Brandon – 1st place
  • *Amy Walton – 2nd place
  • Jennifer Welch – 6th place

    • Number Sense:

  • *Jordan Carter – 1st place

    • News Writing:

  • *Katy Skogberg – 3rd place

    • Persuasive Speaking

  • *Cimmi Alvarez – 3rd place
  • Damian Silvas – 6th place

    • Poetry Interpretation:

  • Darla Walterscheid – 5th place

    • Prose Interpretation

  • **Christian McCormick – 4th place
  • Kaelyn McCormick – 6th place

    • Ready Writing

  • *Julianna Smith – 1st place

    • Science

  • Wesley Meadows – 5th place overall, 2nd place Biology

    • Social Studies

  • *Kylie Davis – 2nd place

    • Spelling & Vocabulary

  • Jessica Presley – 5th place
  • 2nd place team – Camily Gonzalez, Hanna Kelly, Jessica Presley

    • Paradise Meet Results Posted

    On February 23, Paradise held an invitiational meet in which 11 schools participated. Results are here.

    Cross-Ex Team Excels at District

    The PHS Cross Examination Debate Team placed third at the district competition in Ponder today. They will be advancing to State as alternate. Team members are Jennifer Welch and Sara Horton, coach is Cheryl Hoover.

    Students Do Well at Brock Meet

    We had 32 students represent us Saturday, January 19, at Brock's annual Academic UIL Invitational meet. It was a good day, and many students placed and/or saw marked improvement in their respective competitions. The following students placed in the indicated events:

    Headline Writing

  • Hannah Eisen – 4th place
  • Jacob Owens – 6th place
  • Zach Fletcher – 3rd place

    • Current Events

  • Jacob Owens – 5th place

    • Number Sense

  • Jordan Carter – 2nd place

    • Accounting

  • Monika Qualls – 1st place
  • Taylor Bates – 4th place

    • Prose

  • Kaelyn McCormick – 1st place
  • Devan McAsey Perez – 4th place

    • Poetry

  • Lexi Gilbreath – 1st place
  • Angie Tipton – 4th place

    • Informative Speaking

  • Sierra Brandon – 1st place
  • Kaitlyn Godwin – 7th place

    • Students Win Awards at Princeton

    We had 41 students represent us at Princeton on January 12 at their 16th annual UIL Invitational Spring Classic. There were approximately 25-30 schools there, many of them larger schools, so the competition was tough to say the least. These are the results of this meet:

    Number Sense:

  • Jordan Carter: 2nd place, senior division
  • 1st place team, small school (1A – 3A) division: Jordan Carter, Skyler Clawson, Hanna Kelly

    Calculator Applications:

  • Brandon McCutchen: 5th place, sophomore division
  • Amy Walton: 5th place, senior division
  • 2nd place team, small school division: Brandon McCutchen, Amy Walton, Hunter Anthony

    Headline Writing:

  • Jacob Owens: 2nd place

    Literary Criticism:

  • Janae McMurry: 5th place

    Students Do Well at Gainesville Meet

    On December 12, a group of PHS students traveled to Gainesville High School to compete in the Lindsay/Gainesville Winner Wonderland Academic UIL Invitational meet. Here is a summary of how our students did:

    Ready Writing: Julianna Smith – 1st place; Faith Allen – 5th place

    Feature Writing: Kailin Carwile – 3rd place

    News Writing: Kailin Carwile – 2nd place; Kaitlynn Godwin – 6th place

    Literary Criticism: Julianna Smith – 5th place

    Mathematics: Cyle Cox – 3rd place

    Calculator Applications: Brandon McCutchen – 3rd place; Amy Walton – 4th place; 1st place TEAM (Brandon McCutchen, Amy Walton, Allison Rutledge)

    Headline Writing: Hannah Eisen – 1st place; Jacob Owens – 2nd place; Zach Fletcher – 3rd place; Sierra Brandon – 5th place

    Editorial Writing: Allison Rutledge – 1st place; Kaitlynn Godwin – 4th place; Kailin Carwile – 6th place

    Cross-Examination Debate (novice division): Jennifer Welch/Sara Horton – 6th place

    Lincoln-Douglas Debate (varsity division): Cimmi Alvarez – 1st place

    Extemporaneous Informative Speaking: Sierra Brandon – 6th place

    Others that competed were: Caiden Berry, Zildjian Brooks, Makenna Burt, Drew Carter, Zack King, Nick Loney, Luke Miller, and Dylan Noble.

    UIL Academic Dates are Released

    November 3rd (Sat.)/Mansfield Legacy HS – speech events only (leaving at 5:30 am)

    November 10th (Sat.)/Mansfield HS – no speech events (leaving at 6:00 am)

    December 7th – 8th (Sat.)/Gainesville HS (leaving time to be determined)

    *January 12th (Sat.)/Princeton HS (leaving at 5:00 am)

    January 19th (Sat.)/Brock HS (leaving at 7:15 am)

    February 1st (Fri.)/Cross-Examination Debate District – First Baptist Church, Ponder (leaving time to be determined)

    February 2nd (Sat.)/Mansfield Legacy HS (leaving at 6:00)

    February 23rd (Sat.)/PARADISE HS

    March 22nd (Fri.)/District One-Act Play – Graham Memorial Auditorium, Graham (leaving time to be determined)

    March 25th (Mon.)/District Meet – Brock High School/writing events only (leaving time to be determined)

    March 28th (Thur.)/District Meet – Brock High School/non-writing events (leaving time to be determined)

    April 8th (Tue.)/Area One-Act Play – Aledo HS (leaving time to be determined)

    **April 19th (Fri.)/Tarleton, Stephenville/Regional One-Act Play

    ** April 20th/Tarleton, Stephenville/Regional Academic Meet

    **May 21st – 22nd/UT, Austin/State Academic Meet

    **May 20th – 22nd/UT, Austin/State One-Act Play

    District 9-AA Has a Website

    District 9-AA has a website that is maintained by Peaster ISD and can be seen by clicking here.