Academic All-Stars, Teams Named as Regional Competition Nears
April 6, 2010
Coaches in two of the leagues that will be represented in the April 24 Southwest Regional of the 2010 Ohio Academic Competition at Cincinnati State have selected students for the equivalent of All-Star honors.
The All-Star analogy is fitting, because the Ohio Academic Competition has much in common with a season-ending sports tournament.
For the past four months, teams of students from four leagues in southwestern Ohio – the Greater Cincinnati Academic League, the Cincinnati Academic League, the Fort Ancient Valley Conference and the Greater Miami Conference – have been matching wits in a series of weekly contests and smaller tournaments.
In sessions similar to the television game show quizzes of yore, students on these academic teams compete to see who can answer questions fastest and most accurately. The questions asked of the students range from history to literature, science to spelling, mythology to mathematics.
In addition to fielding a varsity team, most schools also assembled a reserve team and several had freshman teams as well.
When the four-month competition season came to a close at the end of February, a total of 16 schools had qualified for the Southwest Regional, which will be hosted by Cincinnati State Technical and Community College. They are:
- Chaminade-Julienne H.S.
- Cincinnati Country Day School
- Clinton-Massie High School
- Elder High School
- Fenwick High School
- Goshen High School
- Lakota West High School
- Little Miami High School
- Loveland High School
- Moeller High School
- Oak Hills High School
- Sycamore High School
- Tri-Village High School
- Turpin High School
- Walnut Hills High School
- Wilmington High School
The top two finishers in the regional will advance to the state finals in May.
Coaches in the Greater Cincinnati Academic League and the Cincinnati Athletic League have selected team members for special recognition this year.
More than 240 students participated in the 25-year-old GCAL during the 2009-10 school year. The league’s coaches have chosen the following students for special recognition as a result of their performance throughout the season:
GCAL All-Academic 1st Team
Julia Tasset Ursuline Academy
Michael Manovich Chaminade-Julienne High School
James Inwood Fenwick High School
Mariele Fluegeman Mother of Mercy High School
Colleen Good Purcell Marian High School
Dylan Neu LaSalle High School
Andrew Condia Elder High School
Chloe Rivir Roger Bacon High School
GCAL All-Academic 2nd Team
Jim Hess Alter High School
El Asa Crawford McAuley High School
David Benson Oldenburg Academy of the Immaculate Conception
Rachel Schwind St. Ursula High School
Alex Parra Moeller High School
Taylor Hensley Seton High School
Matt Johnson McNicholas High School
Charles Hinckley St. Xavier High School
During the 2009-10 school year more than 180 students participated in the Cincinnati Academic League, which has been in existence for 17 years. The league’s coaches have chosen the following students for special recognition as a result of their performance throughout the season:
CAL All-Academic 1st Team
Will Portman Cincinnati Country Day School
Michael Striebich Indian Hill
Andrew Philip Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy
Debha Amatya Summit Country Day School
Richard McQueary Madeira High School
Ethan Dunn Reading High School
Josh Wang Seven Hills High School
Reed Gerberick Mariemont High School
CAL All-Academic 2nd Team
Elizabeth Daun Indian Hill High School
Evan Cheshire Wyoming High School
Joe Michaloeski Wyoming High School
Andre Roulliard Summit Country Day School
Conor Coyan Mariemont High School
Jonathan Gast Finneytown High School
Matthew Reuter Madeira High School
Xanni Brown Cincinnati Country Day School
