Seneca Valley Academic Decathlon Team Finishes 1st Again

CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, PA - For the second time this year, the Seneca Valley High School academic decathlon team placed first in a regional academic decathlon competition. The Seneca Valley team recently competed against 15 other schools at Northwestern High School.

Among the team’s achievements:

• Seniors Katie Bablak and Rishin Sharma both won overall gold medals as two of the overall highest scoring students and both medaled in the categories of economics, math, science and social science.

• Mark Hemmerlin, senior, won an overall silver and won in the events of math and science.

• Junior Nishant Jayachandran won an overall silver and medaled in economics and speech.

• Senior Katie Parker medaled in science and speech and junior Logan Glatz won in the categories of science and social science.

Seneca Valley medalists also included freshman Abigail Roeckmann, as well as juniors Will Firman, Gabe Sutherland and Nik Schuster in the category of social science. Junior Julia Allman won in speech.

The students competed in six events: social science, economics, math, essay, science and speech. The team’s next competition will be held at Oil City High School on Jan. 12.

Photo of academic decathlon team (Julia Allman, Katie Parker, Gabe Sutherland, Logan Glatz, Nick Folino, Mark Hemmerlin, Megan Spark, Abigail Roeckmann, Steven Yang, Kate Lipscomb, Ryan Lipscomb, Nishant Jayachandran, Megan Neely,Christina Yang, Jessie Glatz, Katie Bablak, Ashley Conroy and Mia Chevallier, Will Firman and Nik Schuster) via Seneca Valley School District.

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