TAPPS Speech and Academics District Champs!

Regents Academy’s high school team placed first in the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools (TAPPS) district contest this past weekend.

From left, front row, placing 3rd in Original Oratory and 2nd in Ready Writing – senior Anna Daniel; placing 3rd in Current Events & Issues, 5th in Duet Acting, and 1st in Original Oratory – senior Will Alders; placing 1st in Persuasive, 6th in Duet Acting, and 2nd in Original Oratory – sophomore Haley Duke; placing 3rd in Prose, 6th in Duet Acting and 2nd in Current Events & Issues – junior Elizabeth Castleberry; placing 5th in Duet Acting, 5th in Poetry and 2nd in Solo Acting – sophomore Aaron Bryant; freshman Megan Marshall; placing 6th in Spelling and 5th in Persuasive – junior Tim Marshall;  and freshman Kendall DeKerlegand; middle row, placing 6th in Social Studies – freshman Jonathan Sowell; placing 5th in Current Events & Issues – junior Tyler Sowell; placing 6th in Ready Writing and 3rd in Solo Acting – freshman Alice Bryant; and placing 2nd in Literary Criticism, 3rd in Poetry, 4th in Prose, and 1st in Solo Acting – Miranda Kunk; back row, placing 5th in Spelling and 3rd in Duet Acting – freshman Graham Culpepper; placing 4th in Poetry, 5th in Prose, 6th in Literary Criticism and 4th in Advanced Math – senior Ali Hosseinpour; and placing 2nd in Calculator, 7th in Science, 3rd in Duet Acting and 1st in Number Sense – sophomore Sam Alders.