Seneca Valley Wins Third Straight Academic Decathlon

CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, PA - The Seneca Valley Academic Decathlon Team is on a roll. For the third time in a row, it finished first in a regional Academic Decathlon Competition.

SV seniors who medaled at the recent event at Oil City High School included Katie Bablak who won an overall gold and medaled in math, art, literature, economics and science; Rishin Sharma who won in math, art, economics and won an overall bronze; Katie Parker, who won in music, literature, economics and science and Mark Hemmerlin, who won in economics.

Juniors Nishant Jayachandran won an overall silver and also medaled in math, art, literature and economics; Logan Glatz medaled in art, science and social science and also won an overall bronze; Megan Neely won in art and literature; Gabe Sutherland medaled in economics and social science. Nikolaus Schuster, Lee Spark and Will Firman all medaled in social science and Julia Allman won in art.

Sophomores Mia Chevallier medaled in music and art and Abigail Roeckmann won in art and social science. Freshman Kate Lipscomb medaled in music.

Seneca Valley competed against 14 other schools in seven events: art, music, literature, social science, economics, math and science.

The decathlon team includes 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.

The team’s next competition will be a regional event at Edinboro University in March.

Photo via Seneca Valley School District.

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