Seneca Valley Academic Decathletes Roll To Another Victory

CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP PA - For the second time this year, the Seneca Valley Academic Decathlon Team finished first in a regional academic decathlon competition.

At Collegiate Academy recently, the Seneca Valley medalists included seniors Nishant Jayachandran won overall gold and medaled in the category of science. Gabriel Sutherland won an overall silver and won in the events of economics and interview; Julia Allman medaled in speech, Megan Neely, William Firman and Logan Glatz all medaled in interview, Megan Spark won in science and Steven Yang in the category of math.

Junior Mia Chevallier won an overall gold and also medaled in economics, science, essay and speech. Junior Ash Eury medaled in economics, math and science. Juniors Allison Flatt and Abigail Roeckmann both won in the category of science and Gwyneth Defede medaled in speech.

Seneca Valley medalists also included sophomores Rayan Ghaffar who won an overall silver and medaled in math, and speech; Shanker Pillai won in the category of math and Nick Nedzesky won in speech.

The students competed against 15 other schools in six events: interview, economics, math, essay, science and speech.

The next competition will be held at Seneca Valley on Jan. 4.