FT.WORTH – On May 6, Taylor resident Bridget Weber won first place in Ready Writing at the Private Schools Interscholastic Association’s state competition at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. PSIA is an academic competition for private, parochial and home schools from across the state that features 19 different academic contests.
“I’m so proud of how hard our students worked to prepare for their events. They practiced once a week with their coaches and also spent countless hours at home preparing. It was great to see their hard work pay off and so many of them place so well at state,” said Becky Cavage, St. Paul principal.
Weber also took a fifth place medal in Listening Skills and a sixth place medal in Spelling. She is a fourth grade student at St. Paul Lutheran School in Thorndale, whose elementary took eigth place overall in the state meet. St. Paul had a total of 20 competitors qualify for the state competition, many of them competing in multiple events.
PSIA competitors
Jonah Norvell – Fifth place in Maps, Graphs and Charts
Lukas Gates – Second place in Science
John Oliver Norvell – Eighth place in Number Sense
Luke Manuel – Eighth place in Spelling
Kaden Kuhl – Spelling and Calculator Applications
Jack Manuel – Story Telling
Reagan Cooper – Eighth place in Ready Writing
