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Saturday, April 4, 2026 at 6:26 AM

WHS Academic UIL is repeat District Champions

WHS Academic UIL is repeat District Champions

Last weekend, the Whitesboro High School (WHS) Academic UIL teams traveled to Ponder to compete at the District Meet where  WHS was named back-to-back District Champions. Results are as follows:

Calculator: 2nd place team - Jeremy Krause, Steven Breidenstein, Abigail Snow and Kaylee Niles

Krause was the 1st place individual and advances to regionals. Breidenstein was 6th.

Computer Science: 1st place team (by nearly 500 points) - Ian Niles, Jeremy Krause, Siena Bensley and Jake Niles all advancing to regionals.

Individually, Ian was 1st, Krause was 2nd, Bensley was 3rd and Jake was 4th. 

Copy Editing: Kaylee Niles was 1st advancing to regionals. 

Lynette Crawford finished 5th.

Current Issues and Events: 1st place team - Harrison Glenn, Layke Cole, Cohen Deitsch, Jason Reed and Micah Velten advancing to regionals. 

Glenn was 2nd place individually and Cole was 5th. 

Feature Writing: Layla Carey placed 3rd individually and advances to regionals. 

Headline Writing: Lynette Crawford was 2nd and Paisley Blevins was 3rd. Both advance to regionals. 

Informative Speaking: Emma Hancock was 2nd, Micah Velten was 3rd and Jason Reed was 4th. Hancock and Velten advance to regionals and Reed is the first alternate. 

Lincoln Douglas Debate: Emma Hancock was 3rd and Kaleah Debord was 5th. Hancock advances to regionals. 

Literary Criticism: 1st place team - Kaylee Niles, Presley Lawson, Jilian Snow and Aubree Durham all advancing to regionals. 

Niles finished in 1st place and Lawson finished in 2nd place. 

Mathematics: 2nd place team  - Steven Breidenstein, Jeremy Krause, Abigail Snow, Kaylee Niles and Brant Thompson. 

Breidenstein finished 2nd individually and advances to regionals. Krause placed 4th and is the first alternate. 

News Writing: Layla Carey placed 4th and is the first alternate to regionals. 

Number Sense: 1st place team - Jeremy Krause, Steven Breidenstein, Thomas Maxwell and Ian Niles all advancing to regionals. 

Individually, Krause was 2nd, Breidenstein was 4th and Maxwell was 5th.

Persuasive Speaking: Mason Pierson finished 2nd and advances to regionals. Ripley Harper finished in 5th. 

Poetry: Olivia Shepard finished in 3rd and advances to regionals. Lauren Culligan finished in 5th. 

Prose: Layla Carey was 1st, Ripley Harper was 2nd, Landry Harper was 3rd. All three advance to regionals. 

Ready Writing: Lynette Crawford finished in 5th place. 

Science: Steven Breidenstein finished first place and had the top chemistry score. Caden Brehm had the top physics score. Both advance to regionals. 

Social Studies: Savanna Howard finished in 4th and Jason Reed finished in 5th.

WHS UIL will travel to Tyler to compete at Regionals on April 24-25.
 


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