Irving ISD students swept the competition at the UIL Academics and Speech/Debate District Meet last week, garnering gold and bronze sweepstakes trophies and more than 40 regional qualifications. 

Led by five first-place team finishes and 16 top-three individual finishes, MacArthur won the meet overall. Irving High finished third-place team overall, with 12 students medaling  in addition to one gold team finish. Nimitz will be represented by two individual qualifiers. 

Students advancing to Regionals and their placing at District are as follows:

Individual Qualifiers

Computer Applications 

  • 1. Bryan Hernandez, Irving
  • 2. Anett Castellanos, MacArthur

Copy Editing

  • 1. Elle Caldon, MacArthur
  • 3. Emily Vasquez, Irving

Editorial Writing

  • 1. Diana Amaya, Irving
  • 3. Jalia Russell, Irving

Feature Writing

  • 2. Mosammat Ali, Irving
  • 3. Elle Caldon, MacArthur

Headline Writing

  • 2. Elle Caldon, MacArthur

Informative Speaking

  • 3. Kevin Tran, Irving

Lincoln Douglas Debate

  • 2. Dhamar Lopez, Nimitz
  • 3. Sarah Jones, MacArthur

Literary Criticism

  • 1. Levi Hensley, Irving

News Writing

  • 1. Elle Caldon, MacArthur
  • 2. Diana Amaya, Irving

Persuasive Speaking

  • 3. Josue Celis, Irving

Ready Writing

  • 2. Estrella Barrera, Nimitz

Social Studies

  • 3. Natalia Campos, Irving

 

Team Qualifiers

Calculator Applications

  • 1. MacArthur (1. Evelyn Cantarero, 3. Khoi Nguyen, 4. Sasha Sumabon, 5. Donald Lubbeck)

Literary Criticism

  • 1. MacArthur (2. Sasha Sumabon, 3. Paul Rowe, 4. Amy Villela, Elsie Gonzalez

Number Sense

  • 1. MacArthur (1. Gabriel Alvarez, 3. Logan Nasky, 4. Paola Romero, 6. Ben Collett)

Science

  • 1. MacArthur (1. Logan Nasky, 3. Justin Wu, Paola Romero, Nicole Sumabon, Sasha Sumabon, Masuma Siddiqua)

Social Studies

  • 1. MacArthur (1. Amy Villela, 2. Paul Rowe, Nicole Sumabon)

Spelling 

  • 1. Irving (2. Nowsin Mozumder, 3. Kaya Jackson, Lizbeth Andrades, Vivian Tran)

All of these students and team will advance to UIL Regionals, which will be held April 22 and 23 at the University of Texas at Arlington.  

Congratulations, students and coaches. Best of luck at regionals!