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Dinuba High School's Academic Decathlon team poses for a picture after taking home a record 38 medals on Saturday at the Tulare County competition. The students in the back, left to right, are Jaifreen Bhangu, Gerardo Jarquin, Diana Reyna, BD Covarubias, Andrew Mariano and Steven Welden. Front row: Sydney Rojas, Isabel Rivera, Lucina Jarquin and Fiona Chen.
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medal in speech and also won a bronze.
Also receiving medals were Kylie Pascual [silver and bronze in honors division], Valentin Quevedo [silver and bronze in honors division], Raul
Quintero [silver in honors division]
Dinuba High School’s Academic Decathlon team
had a small team this year, but were still able to take home a record 38 medals, out of a possible 90 medals, at the event. The school also took home more than half the gold medals available, 16 out of 30.
“I’m very happy with the medals the students won,” Dinuba High’s Academic Decathlon coach Joseph Schuster said. “I’m so proud of my team. The last two years we took home 27 medals and this year we took home 38.”
Schuster said that two days before the competition three students dropped out, but the rest of the team didn’t give up.
“Every one of the students competing took home a medal and we won a medal in every single one of the 10 competitions,” Schuster said.
Schuster stated that if his team had the numbers they would have a shot at winning the overall award, but he is more happy with his students
winning medals.
The top Emperor was Andrew Mariano who
won six gold and two silver medals in Scholastic. His first place medals were in art, economics, interview, math, science and speech.
The second highest Emperor was Sydney Rojas. She won four gold, two silver and a bonze medal. Her four gold medals were in art, economics, language/literature and science.
Diana Reyna also took home seven medals. She had one gold, three silver and three bronze medals. Her gold medal was in social science.
The fourth top student was Isabel Rivera with one gold, three silver and two bronze medals. Her gold medal was in economics.
The other four gold medals went to Isaac Gonzalez in essay, Lucina Jarquin in interview, Fiona Chen in science and Gerardo Jarquin in social science. Lucia also won a bronze medal.
Other Emperors receiving medals were Steven Weldon [three bronze], Jaifreen Bhangu [one silver and one bronze].
Varsity is a grade point average of 0-2.99, scholastic is a GPA of 3-3.74 and honors is a GPA of 3.75-4.
Orosi High School student Raul Quintero reads the question on the screen in the Super Quiz competition. Teammate Valentin Quevedo is in the background.
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Orosi High School student Alejandro Robles competes in Super Quiz on Saturday.
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Orosi High School's Academic Decathlon team poses for a picture after winning the small school's division on Saturday. The team members are, left to right, standing: Alejandro Robles, Kylee Pascual, Raul Quintero, Daniel Albers (coach), Adam Lopez, Peter Mendez, Desiree Alvarado, Valentin Quevedo and Julio Castorena. Bottom row: Anthony Tamayo, Joshua Talingo and Manolo Cirilo.
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Dinuba High School students Jaifreen Bhangu and Steven Weldon take part in the Super Quiz event during Tulare County's Academic Decathlon on Saturday.
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