Fourteen Snyder High School students qualified for the Class 4A University Interscholastic League regional academic meet on Thursday.
Snyder finished second in the District 5-4A meet with 405 points. Big Spring won the meet with 683 total points. The regional meet will be held April 12-13 at Texas Tech University.
Snyder had 10 first place finishes at the meet held at Big Spring High School. They were Bergandi Alvarado (prose interpretation), Caitlyn Crane (headline writing and news writing), Randy Hernandez (copy editing), Brody Jasso (poetry interpretation) Evelyn Kerr (computer science), Rena Morrell (spelling and vocabulary), Carolyn Stelutti (feature writing) and Haruki Sugimoto (number sense).
Second place finishers and regional qualifiers were Kaleb Alarcon (science), Georgiana Crist (copy editing and news writing), Rutik Desai (computer science) and Olivia Haley (prose interpretation). Students who finished third and qualified for regionals were Desai (computer applications), Stelluti (copy editing), Hernandez (editorial writing), Spence Jones (computer science), Madison Mitchell (prose interpretation) and Sugimoto (mathematics).
Matthew Porter will join his computer science teammates at the regional meet after the team won the title. He finished fourth in the individual standings behind Kerr, Desai and Jones.
The journalism team also won the team title on Thursday.
Here are the remaining students who placed in the top six at the district meet on Thursday:
Accounting: Rutik Desai, fourth place.
Editorial Writing: Georgiana Crist, fourth place.
Feature Writing: Georgiana Crist, fourth place.
Headline Writing: Alondra Tovar, fifth place.
Lincoln-Douglas Debate: Seth Salazar, fourth place.
News Writing: Randy Hernandez, sixth place.
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