Parsippany High Decathlon Team Wins Big At Nationals

PARSIPPANY, NJ — The Parsippany High School Academic Decathlon had a great showing at the national competition in Texas, taking home seven medals.

Fifty-five teams from across America, China and the UK competed at the Frisco, Texas event earlier this month.

Bronze Medal winners from PHS included Ellie Xu (Senior) for Interview and Art (also the team’s highest scorer), Adam Ye (Senior) for Math, Andrew Lie (Junior) for Math and Speech and Daniel Kuo (Sophomore) for Art. Hugh Kwong (Junior) earned a silver medal in Math. Alice Limanova (Senior) was chosen as MVP by her teammates.

Academic Decathlon is a series of ten academic competitions, including math, science, social science, literature, economics, art, music, speech, essay and interview. The theme of this year's competition was Africa.

The 2017-18 AcDec team is comprised of nine students: Seniors, Ellie Xu, Alice Limanova Adam Ye and Anthony Martucci; Juniors, Hugh Kwong and Andrew Lie; Sophomores, Dan Kuo and Shiv Dipak Patel. Team coaches are Nancy Lennon, Science Teacher and Stacy Cozin, Media Specialist.

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