Academic decathlon
Seventeen schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco participated in the thirteenth Annual Academic Junior High Decathlon held March 14 at St. Pius School in Redwood City.
Participating schools included, Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Corpus Christi, St/ Anthony-Immaculate Conception, De Marillac Academy, Saint Charles, Good Shepherd, Saint Gabriel, Immaculate Heart of Mary, Saint John, Mission Dolores, Saint Pius, Nativity, Saint Raymond, Our Lady of Mercy, Saints Peter and Paul, and Epiphany.
St. Gabriel School won in overall competition and will represent the Archdiocese of San Francisco on May 2, 2009 at the state event in Redwood City. Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires took second place and Our Lady of Mercy was third.
St. Pius School principal, Rita Carroll, chaired and coordinated the event.
In the Logic competition, first place went to Our Lady of Mercy; second to School of the Epiphany, and third to St. Gabriel.
In the Religion category, St. Gabriel student Sophia Cannata-Bowman took first place; second went to Jocelyn Lim of Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires; and third place went to Mikaela McKay of Good Shepherd.
Current Events category winner was Francesco Trogu of Sts. Peter and Paul; second went to Malaya Sadler of Ecole Notre Dames des Victoires; and Kevin Tsai of St. Gabriel took third.
In the English competition, first place went to Kylie Young of Our Lady of Mercy; second place was won by Isabella Mello of Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires; and third went to Juliette Hackett of St. Gabriel.
In the Mathmatics competition, Brian Wuerstle of Good Shepherd took first place; second went to Kristen Zachariah of St. Gabriel and Marjorie Morales of Epiphany; and Marc Anthony Isidro of Mission Dolores took third.
In Literature, first place was won by Adrian Diaz de Rivera of St. Gabriel; second went to Edwin Garcia of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel; and third was won by Zoe Firth of Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires.
In the Fine Arts category, Jacob Blumenfeld of St. Gabriel School won first place; second went to Claire Fahy of Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires; and third went to Amy Gendotti of St. Charles.
The Science category winner was Charlie Liu of Good Shepherd School; Anna Yuschenkoff of St. Gabriel placed second; and taking third was Daniel Meaghen of Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires.
In the Social Studies category, Celeste Morales of School of the Epiphany, took first place; second was won by Natalie Keohane of Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires, and Kelly Graber of St. Gabriel.
The Super Quiz category was won by Good Shepherd School; with Nativity School taking second; and Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires placing third.
From April 10, 2009 issue of Catholic San Francisco.
