Kelseyville High Team Two included Cory Johnson, Rebecca Brookes, Ashley Taylor, Onnivin Pelzel, Nils Mostin, Juan Huerta, Billie Jeffers, David Robinson and Avery Gibson.
Upper Lake must now put in a last furious push of studying in order to be ready to represent Lake County at the California Academic Decathlon, which takes place March 15-18 in Sacramento.
Competing teams this year included Willits, which as the only Mendocino County school will automatically advance to the state finals; Lower Lake; Clear Lake High School; and Middletown. Full scores and standings are expected from the Lake County Office of Education later this week.
This year’s topic was “The Age of Empire.”
During the super quiz, quiz master Gary Olson led students through 45 challenging questions, with three rounds each for varsity, scholastic and honors levels students. Parents and community members could test their own knowledge by following along on a score sheet.
Students were asked about issues including colonization and imperialism, the impact of disease on North America’s indigenous populations, the outcomes of the Boer War and factors affecting how European colonization developed in Africa. They had approximately seven seconds to write down their answers.
By the time the Super Quiz was over, Clear Lake High led with 19, followed by Willits, 17; Kelseyville Team Two, 15; Middletown and Lower Lake tied with 14; Upper Lake Team Two, 13; and Kelseyville Team One and Upper Lake Team One tied with 11.
After a half-hour break to tally the scores, the judges returned to announce the winners of individual and team medals, and named Upper Lake's first team and Kelseyville's second team as the top finishers.
As the teams gathered to celebrate afterward, one of Upper Lake’s standouts, Christine Randall, said the competition this year was really stressful, and there were many new people on the team as well.
That’s because this year, for the first time, Upper Lake Head Coach Anna Sabalone recruited freshmen for the team. Last year she experimented by allowing Ian Seevers on the team, and Seevers did well enough that she decided to bring on other younger students.
Senior Jordan Austin, who like Randall was bedecked with numerous medals after the awards Saturday night, called the competition “backbreaking.”
Asked if he had concerns about all of the new team members being able to work together with the veteran team members, Austin said Sabalone had no trouble getting everyone to study when they needed to do so.
Alongside Sabalone this year was Angel Hayenga, her assistant coach, who was at her first competition.
Though she had coached last year, Hayenga had been battling pneumonia and couldn’t watch her team compete in February 2011.
“It was so much fun,” she said of Saturday’s competition, which she called “amazing.”
Sabalone said it will be all studying and no break for her team between now and next month’s state competition.
The list of winning students and the teams follows.
ESSAY
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Third place: Billie Jeffers, Kelseyville High School Team Two
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Second place: Bianey Madrigal, Lower Lake High School
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First place: Daniel Lucas, Kelseyville High School Team One
SPEECH
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Third place: Jacob Blue, Clear Lake High School
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Second place: Blair Brookes, Kelseyville High School Team One
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First place: Aaron Ramirez, Willits High School
INTERVIEW
- Third place: Tie, Katelynn Meade-Malley, Lower Lake High School, and Shao-Jia Chang, Clear Lake High School
- Second place: Gabe Ramos, Upper Lake High School Team Two
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First place: Aaron Ramirez, Willits High School
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
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Third place: Jordan Austin, Upper Lake High School Team One
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Second place: Tie, Daniel Lucas, Kelseyville High School Team One, and Jordin Simons, Upper Lake High School Team Two
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First place: Christine Randall, Upper Lake High School Team One
ART
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Third place: Rebecca Brookes, Kelseyville High School Team Two
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Second place: Jaqueline Estrada, Upper Lake High School Team One
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First place: Christine Randall, Upper Lake High School Team One
ECONOMICS
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Third place: Jordan Austin, Upper Lake High School Team One
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Second place: Shao-Jia Chang, Clear Lake High School
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First place: Kelsie Lawson, Clear Lake High School
SCIENCE
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Third place: David Robinson, Kelseyville High School Team Two
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Second place: Cory Johnson, Kelseyville High School Team Two
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First place: Kelsie Lawson, Clear Lake High School
MATH
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Third place: Three-way tie, Daniel Lucas, Kelseyville High School Team One; Savanah Fecht, Upper Lake High School Team Two; and Jordan Austin, Upper Lake High School Team One
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Second place: Rebecca Pachie, Middletown High School
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First place: Kelsie Lawson, Clear Lake High School
MUSIC
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Third place: Two-way tie, Shayla Wyman, Upper Lake High School Team One; Jacob Joens-Poulton, Willits High School
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Second place: Aaron Ramirez, Willits High School
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First place: Christine Randall, Upper Lake High School Team One
SUPER QUIZ
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Third place: Cory Johnson, Kelseyville High School Team Two
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Second place: Shao-Jia Chang, Clear Lake High School
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First place, Rebecca Brookes, Kelseyville High School Team Two
DIVISIONS
VARSITY
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Third place: Joni Hansen, Clear Lake High School
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Second place: David Robinson, Kelseyville High School Team Two
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First place, Philip Leighton, Clear Lake High School
SCHOLASTIC
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Third place: Oscar Nieves, Upper Lake High School Team One
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Second place: Daniel Lucas, Kelseyville High School Team One
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First place: Christine Randall, Upper Lake High School Team One
HONOR
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Third place: Shao-Jia Chang, Clear Lake High School
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Second place: Rebecca Brookes, Kelseyville High School Team Two
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First place: Jordan Austin, Upper Lake High School Team One
TEAM HIGH SCORERS
SECOND PLACE
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Willits High School: Jacob Joens-Poulton
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Kelseyville High School: Rebecca Brookes
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Upper Lake High School: Jordan Austin
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Middletown High School: Taryn Barker
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Lower Lake High School: Bianey Madrigal
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Clear Lake High School: Philip Leighton
FIRST PLACE
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Willits High School: Aaron Ramirez
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Kelseyville High School: Daniel Lucas
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Upper Lake High School: Christine Randall
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Middletown High School: Monique Gibbs
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Lower Lake High School: James Haddan
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Clear Lake High School: Shao-Jia Chang
THE TEAMS
CLEAR LAKE HIGH SCHOOL
Superintendent Erin Smith-Hagberg
Principal Steve Gentry
Coach Jim Rogers
Team members: Shao-Jia Chang, Allison Hanson, Kelsie Lawson, Asia Jones, Alex Bielby, Jacob Blue, Isaura Espinoza, Amanda Bradley, Philip Leighton, Joni Hansen, Abby LaBar, Savannah Rasmussen.
LOWER LAKE HIGH SCHOOL
Superintendent Dr. Bill MacDougall
Principal Jeff Dixon
Coach Nancy Harby
Team members: Bianey Madrigal, Michelle Page, Hector Landeros, Cinthya Madrigal, Victoria Stahlman, Enrique Yarce, Tashawna Titus, Katelynn Meade-Malley, Robin Chen, Cheyenne Hoffman, James Haddan, Jessica Jones, Analy Rincon, Samantha Iovino, Zabdy Neria, Elijah Orlando.
KELSEYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
Superintendent David McQueen
Principal Matt Cockerton
Coaches Erick Larsen and Heather Koschik
Team One: Amanda Spitzer, Sydney Odom, Blair Brookes, Daniel Lucas, Max Whitaker, Matteo Merodio, Justin Lombardo, Brittani Sheckells.
Team Two: Cory Johnson, Rebecca Brookes, Ashley Taylor, Onnivin Pelzel, Nils Mostin, Juan Huerta, Billie Jeffers, David Robinson, Avery Gibson.
UPPER LAKE HIGH SCHOOL
Superintendent/Principal Patrick Iaccino
Coaches Anna Sabalone and Angel Hayenga
Team One: Jaqueline Estrada, Jordan Austin, Shayla Wyman, Byron Garcia, Christine Randall, Carlos Valencia, Oscar Nieves, Farhad Hussain, Justine Moran, Jamie Maddock and Krista Coleman.
Team Two: Jordin Simons, Ian Seevers, Lyla Seevers, Arthur Wilkie, Savanah Fecht, Savannah Koppenhaver, Shahid Hussain, Juan Ruiz-Olguin, David Lopez, Gabriel Ramos.
WILLITS HIGH SCHOOL
Superintendent Debra Kubin
Principal Gordon Oslund
Coach Jeff Bergmann
Team members: Aaron Ramirez, Siarra Bergmann, Jacob Joens-Poulton, Mica Rudich, Bonnie Smith, Jay Hansen, Asher Israel, Cady Patterson, Elio Jeremias-Sgouros, Tiawna Corriveau, Cristobal Lopez, Naomi Ramirez, Levi Phillips.
MIDDLETOWN HIGH SCHOOL
Superintendent Dr. Korby Olson
Principal Bill Roderick
Coaches Patti Jiminez, Jennifer Pyzer and Robin Cara
Team members: Monique Gibbs, Rebecca Pachie, Taryn Barker, Mailea Pane, Ashley Thompson, Jessie Flynn, Alisa Burris and Samuel Peters.
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