Calabasas High School Wins Academic Decathlon

CALABASAS, CA – Congratulaltions to Calabasas High School for winning the 2019 Ventura County Academic Decathlon! The Calabasas High School Academic Decathlon Team also won the "Super Quiz" portion of the competition, according to the Ventura County Office of Education.

La Reina High School came in second place and Westlake High School came in third. Students from twenty local high schools participated in the competition, which was held in Oxnard, the press release said. The theme of this year’s Academic Decathlon was “The 1960s: A Transformational Decade.”

This is the third year in a row that Calabasas High School has won the Ventura County Academic Decathlon, according to the press release. The high school is within the Las Virgenes Unified School District, which has territory in both L.A. and Ventura counties, so they are allowed to participate in the Ventura County decathlon if they choose, according to the Director of Communications for the Ventura County Office of Education.

Calabasas will now advance to the state Academic Decathlon, which will be held in March in Sacramento. The winning California team moves on to the national competition.

Ventura County teams have made it to the nationals six times, placing second in 2000 and 2002, and taking first place in 1999, 2003, 2008 and 2009.

Calabasas High School Academic Decathlon Team A:

• Coach Tyler Lee
• Hannah Caplan
• Bennett Cohen
• Isabel Daly
• Angelie Fields
• Benjamin Ford
• Quynh-Anh Nguyen
• Maxon Repass
• Daniel Shishegar

Image via Dave Schermer, Ventura County Office of Education