Competition is a fact of life. Students face competition in both UIL athletics and UIL academics. This week we focus on academic competitions. Richland Springs’ one act play, “All My Sons,” placed third at district zone competition. Only two plays advance. However, several Richland Springs’ thespians did receive honors: Kelyn Green – Best Actress; Emily Smith –All Star Cast; Mitchell Jacobson and Callie Teel – Hon. Mention All Star Cast.

The UIL Academic Spring Meet was held at Santa Anna this year. The meet composite team points are as follows: Zephyr HS-244; Richland Springs HS-240; Veribest HS-202; Brookesmith HS-162; Santa Anna HS-148; Panther Creek HS-134; Cherokee HS-86; Eden HS-68; Paint Rock HS-40; Rochelle HS-32, and Lohn HS- 8 points. Richland Springs was well represented and finished just 4 points short of winning the academic meet. Individual and team results are as follows:

Accounting-Randy Couch-6th; Bonnie Stasey-6th (tie)

Calculator Applications-Andrew Fowler-3rd

Current Issues-Sara Hedley-1st; Lindsey Roberds-6th

Editorial Writing-Lindsey Roberds-4th

Feature Writing-Ashten Huddleston-4th

Informative Speaking- Kelyn Green-2nd; Emily Smith-3rd; Abraham Ahumada-4th

Literary Criticism-Brennen McGinty-5th

Mathematics-Andrew Fowler-1st; Stephen Fowler-5th

Number Sense-Andrew Fowler-3rd; Stephen Fowler-6th

Persuasive Speaking-Andrew Fowler-1st; Sara Hedley-2nd

Prose Interpretation-Kelyn Green-1st

Ready Writing-Stephen Soto-2nd

Acct. Team-R. Couch, Bonnie Stasey, Marsha McMillan, Kelsey Huddleston-2nd

Current Issues Team-Sara Hedley, Lindsey Roberds, Nigel Bates, A. Ahumada-1st

Cross Examination Debate Team- Stephen Fowler, Brennen McGinty-2nd

Cross Examination Debate Team- Andrew Fowler, Stephen Soto-4th

Mathematics Team-A. Fowler, Stephen Fowler, Brennen McGinty, Emily Smith-1st

Number Sense Team-A. Fowler, Stephen Fowler, Stephen Soto, Emily Smith-2nd

Speech Team-Jennifer Melin, Joe Tomlinson, Kelyn Green, Andrew Fowler, Sara Hedley, Abraham Ahumada, Emily Smith-1st

Literary Criticism Team-Elbert Thomas, Tommy Hollon, Brennen McGinty-4th

Social Studies Team-Lindsey Roberds, Stephen Soto, Nigel Bates-4th

Science Team-S. Soto, Justin Trevino, S. Fowler, Nigel Bates, Lindsey Roberds-6th

Richland Springs will send 10 students to the High School UIL Academic Regional Meet at ACU on Friday, April 24 & Saturday, April 25. Good luck to all and bring home the gold, and thus make it to the state meet in Austin.

The high school district track meet was at May High School on Wednesday. Several tracksters qualified for the regional meet.

School will release at 3:36 p.m. on Thursday, April 9 for the Easter holiday.

The Richland Springs school board is hosting a town hall meeting to inform, discuss, and answer questions about the upcoming May 9 bond election. The meeting will be held at the Richland Springs cafetorium on Thursday, April 9, at 7:00 p.m.

It’s great to see our community supporting students in their efforts to achieve. We have a great community, students, teachers and staff. It takes everyone working together to achieve success.

Community involvement is the key.