Latin Students Excel at Texas State Junior Classical League Convention
St. Andrew’s Middle and Upper School students competed in academic, artistic, engineering, and athletic contests at the Texas State Junior Classical League (TSJCL) convention at Sandra Day O’Connor High School in San Antonio on March 31 and April 1. The Austin-area Certamen Teams, which included students from St. Andrew’s, competed in the state tournament.
The novice division team, composed of St. Andrew’s students captain Emma Schmidt, Michael Barrow, Bering Edwards, Emily Williams, and alternate Sofia Gonzalez, won second place. Freshman Will Snider also competed on an intermediate team that placed second as well. Congratulations to these Certamen players!
Walton Schmidt and Janson Shrock built a small catapult that launched a golf ball 157 feet, the longest launch of any catapult at the convention. They came away with a first place prize.
Every year at the TSJCL convention, the member schools elect a board of student officers to lead the organization for the following year. This year three St. Andrew’s students served as officers: Walton Schmidt as President, Katherine Salinas as Parliamentarian, and William McKinnerney as Webmaster. These students have all served on the board for three years each, and this year led the biggest revision of the organization’s constitution and bylaws that the organization has ever undergone. At the convention this year, Will Snider was officially sworn in as the new 2016-2017 TSJCL Secretary after a successful campaign at the convention.
President Walton Schmidt was also recognized for his service to the TSJCL with the first annual Aristotle Award. The award provides him with a scholarship to attend the National JCL convention at Troy University in Alabama this summer.
Here are the complete Academic and Classical Civilization results:
Third Place
Fourth Place
First Place
Bering Edwards - Decathlon
Katherine Salinas - Roman History
Second Place
Michael Barrow - Latin Oratory; Roman Life, level 1/2 A
Tristram Coffin - Boys Costume
Bering Edwards - Mythology, level 1/2 A
William McKinnerney - Roman Life, level 5
Rachel Nezzer - Latin Derivatives; Mythology, level 5
Walton Schmidt - Mottoes and Abbreviations; Sight Recitation
Third Place
Michael Barrow - Roman Life
Emma Buechler - Pottery
Truman Cunningham - Club T-shirt Design
Katherine Salinas - Latin Literature
Emma Schmidt - Mottoes and Abbreviations; Decathlon, level 1/2 B
Will Snider - Reading Comprehension; Decathlon, level 2
Fourth Place
Parker Brandt - Greek History
Emma Buechler – Pottery; Sculpture
Sofia Gonzalez - Latin Vocabulary; Sight Recitation
Laney Goodrum - Greek Derivatives
Sina Mohammadi - Creative Writing
Katherine Salinas – Poster; Traditional Photography
Janson Shrock - Geography of the Ancient World
Emily Williams - Roman History
Christian Zhao - Polychromatic Drawing
Fifth Place
Lorelei Ing - Roman Life
Sixth Place
Laney Goodrum - Reading Comprehension
Katherine Salinas - Digital Photography
Ben Sirizzotti - Original English Oratory
Matthew Tobias - Sight Recitation
Seventh Place
William McKinnerney - Advanced Grammar
Emily Williams - Mottoes and Abbreviations
Janson Shrock - Vocabulary
Eighth Place
Emma Erben - Latin Derivatives
Rachel Nezzer - Miscellaneous Art
Will Snider - Poetry
Ninth Place
Everett Bradley - Classical Art, level 2
Jayde Childress - Roman Life
Emma Erben - Decathlon
Matthew Tobias - Greek Derivatives
Will Josowitz - Play - Author
Gray McKinnerney - Play
Rachel Nezzer - Play
Katherine Salinas - Play
Walton Schmidt - Play
Christian Zhao - Classical Art, level 3
Tenth Place
Jayde Childress - Latin Grammar
Henry Erlinger - Couples Costume
Lily Kincannon - Acrylic Art
Jill Pewitt - Classical Art
Ben Sirizzotti - Couples Costume
Students receiving summa cum laude awards for the Pentathlon: Michael Barrow, Parker Brandt, Andrew Buller, Tristram Coffin, Bering Edwards, Emma Erben, Henry Erlinger, Rachel Nezzer, Katherine Salinas, Emma Schmidt, Will Snider, Matthew Tobias, and Emily Williams.
Students receiving maxima cum laude awards for the Pentathlon: Emma Buechler, Laney Goodrum, Sofia Gonzalez, Lorelei Ing, Walton Schmidt, and Christian Zhao.
Students receiving magna cum laude awards for the Pentathlon: Katie Cowan, Gray McKinnerney, Sina Mohammadi, and Ben Sirizzotti.
Students receiving cum laude awards for the Pentathlon: Everett Bradley, Lily Kincannon, Jacob Marcus, Jill Pewitt, William McKinnerney.
Overall, the Middle School placed 9th and the Upper School placed 10th in Advanced Division Sweepstakes.
Good luck to all as we prepare for Nationals this summer at Troy University in Alabama.
