High school students jumping in the air

STANTON — Moving on up. Five students from Coahoma High School have qualified for the regional UIL Academic contest.

Grayson Glidewell, Julia Mashburn, Julia Cox, Brianna Coskey, and Amy Guo made the cut after their performance at district UIL held recently in Stanton.

This is Glidewell’s second time to qualify for UIL academic regionals. This go-round, the CHS sophomore placed second in current issues and third in informative speaking at the district meet. Senior Julia Mashburn showed off her creative skills in the feature writing event. She placed second.

Sophomores Julia Cox, Brianna Coskey, and freshman Amy Guo also performed well as each placed third in their respective contest. Cox will head to regionals to compete in news writing, Coskey in literary criticism, and Guo in spelling and vocabulary.

Overall, Coahoma High School ended in fifth place in the district UIL academic contest. Regional competition will be held on April 13 on the Abilene Christian University campus in Abilene.

UIL Academic Meet

Conference 3A, District 4

Stanton High School

Results (Coahoma only)

Current Issues: 2 - Grayson Glidewell, regional qualifier

Copy Editing: 4 - Ashleigh Mull; 6 - Alex Grant.

Computer Science: 5th - Ashley Crisp; 6 - Brianna Coskey

Feature Writing: 2 - Julia Mashburn, regional qualifier

Informative speaking: 3 - Grayson Glidewell, regional qualifier

Literary Criticism: 3 - Brianna Coskey, regional qualifier

Mathematics: 6 - Joe Mashburn

News Writing: 3 - Julia Cox, regional qualifier

Persuasive Speaking: 4 - Delia Rawls

Poetry Interpretation: 4 - Aubrey Green

Physics: 1 - Danielle Deatheridge

Social Studies: 6 - Maddix Martinez

Spelling and Vocabulary: 3 - Amy Guo, regional qualifier

Current Issues: 2 - Coahoma High School

Cross Examination: 5 - Coahoma High School Team 1.

Literary Criticism: 2 - Coahoma High School

One Act Play: 5 - Coahoma High School