Erin McMillan, Charger Staff
With last year’s Academic Team ranking as the Tennessee State Champions
and number five in the nation, this year’s Academic Team has a lot to live
up to. Six teams will be taken to the team’s first competition this year
in September at Ezell Harding. This will be a southeast regional event with
competitors from Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina, Kentucky, and Alabama.
Each player is expected to do well. Their coach, Mrs. Hawkins, said, “Each
year brings new challenges to our team. The returning players , naturally want
to equal or better the standings of the previous year. Our players have always
met the challange of setting their own pace and establishing their own new records.
I see no reason for that to be any different this year.”
The team’s new players include the following juniors Ross Binkley and
Evan Paul, sophomores Samantha McCrary and Maggie Ragland, and freshmen Paige
Bowman, Ward Jordan, Eddie Liu, Philip Redding, Jordan Wolfe, Alice Doubet,
Christina Li, Mo Ojo, and Ryan Shanahan.
Cookeville High School will be hosting four competitions this year. Over the course of the year they will attend nineteen competitions,twenty-one if they make it to the national level. This will give them plenty of time to expand their stengths including their depth of knowledge, their ability to do well under pressure,staying focused,and the competition experience of the returning players. It will also allow them to obliterate their weaknesses.
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Article prepared for web by J. Wheeler 6-Sept-2002