Archer City hosted the UIL district meet on March 24. Twenty students are advancing to the regional UIL academic meet on April 22-23 at Grayson College UIL coordinator Leslie Graham said shes excited about the number of students advancing.
“It’s exciting that we have so many kids going. It’s more than I can recall ever advancing.”
Freshman Thomas Vogtsberger placed fifth in accounting.
“I was confident that it wouldn’t be too difficult. I am happy with our overall results.”
Senior Seth Deerinwater placed fifth in computer applications
“I feel like we could have done a lot better, but in the end, we tried our hardest.”
Senior John Machtolff placed second in current events.
“I participated in current events and issues. I did well, but I hope to preform better at regionals.”
Senior Sara Kyle placed first in news writing and will be advancing to regionals.
“I participated in news writing and poetry,” said Kyle “I placed first in news and second in poetry. I’m extremely happy with the results because both of the events I competed in got to advance to regionals. I was extremely confident about my performance because I have advanced in previous years.”