DSHS students qualify for regional academic meet

The Dripping Springs High School UIL Academics team qualified 10 students and one team for the 6A Region IV Academic Meet after competing at the District 266A competition late last month.

Students placed in the top three of their respective events, and the first-place team qualified for region. Jake Broyles (Prose Interpretation), Elodie Griffin (Spelling) and Devansh Parwal (Social Studies) came away with top honors in their events. The DSHS spelling team of Griffin, Parwal (2nd), Elizabeth Tullos (T3rd) and Merrick Landi (T3rd) captured the district title. Quinn Foley was a runner-up (Editorial Writing), while Rebeca Avalos-Oviedo (Literary Criticism), Alicia Hernandez (Prose Interpretation), Zoey Parks (Poetry Interpretation) and Deval Vazir (Informative Speaking) were third-place finishers.

Coaches with students advancing to region are Daniel Allen (Spelling), Davy Holmes (Prose and Poetry Interpretation, Informative Speaking), Nick Overmyer (Social Studies), Emma Rose Stringham (Editorial Writing) and Karen Tiller (Literary Criticism).

The region meet will be held Saturday, April 22 at the University of Texas at San Antonio campus.

Regional qualifiers:

Editorial Writing Quinn Foley, 2nd

Informative Speaking Deval Vazir, 3rd Literary Criticism Rebeca Avalos-Oviedo, 3rd

Poetry Interpretation Zoey Parks, 3rd

Prose Interpretation Jake Broyles, 1st Alicia Hernandez, 3rd

Social Studies

Devansh Parwal, 1st

Spelling Team, 1st Elodie Griffin, 1st Devansh Parwal, 2nd Elizabeth Tullos, T3rd Merrick Landi, T3rd