Elkmont's Senior Scholars' Bowl recently competed in the State tournament. The Red Devils came in four in the State! Coleman Cook, Luke Campbell, Riley Cook, Hannah Hanback, Rachel Hammond and Lauren Simpson went undefeated in their pool. They advanced to the finals and played two more rounds...each round was in within 20 points! Way to play Elkmont! So proud of you.
State Tournament Stats: Elkmont
This tournament is open to students in Grades 9 – 12
enrolled at any public, non-selective, Class 1A, 2A, 3A, or 4A
school. (All private schools and Class 5A, 6A, and 7A schools, as well
as magnet programs, are not eligible.) Schools that
compete in this tournament may also compete in the ASCA district
tournament, and winners of this tournament automatically advance to the
ASCA High School Regional Tournament. The Small High School Regional
Tournaments were held at Wallace State Community College in Hanceville,
University of Alabama Gadsden Center, Snead State Community College in
Boaz, and Enterprise State Community College. The State Tournament was
held at Hoover High School on Saturday, February 27.
Regional Tournament - January 14 and 15, 2016
Stats: Elkmont
Limestone County Schools held their yearly fourth and fifth grade Scholars' Bowl competition at Blue Springs Elementary on Wednesday, March 4. West High School placed 3rd, Creekside Elementary placed 2nd, and a big shout out to Piney Chapel for becoming the Limestone County champions.
Even though Elkmont did not place, there were two individuals that need to be recognized. Meredith Christ and Kaitlyn Burroughs were Elkmont's top team scorers when they competed against other teams' top scorers. Meredith Christ pulled out, along with two others, a win for top scorer for Limestone County.
" My team has practiced really hard for this day and I am so proud of each and everyone of them," said Coach Mrs. Holt.
Kaitlyn Burroughs, Addyson Holt, Alyssa Moss, Lily Gurth, Meredith Christ, Jacob Rhineheimer, Grayson Pressnell, Devyn Hughes, Cherokee Finney, Sara Harwell
The Elkmont scholar bowl team was competing in The University of Alabama (UAH) Honors
College's 2015 Alabama Scholastic Competition Association
(ASCA) District High School Scholars Bowl, Friday, Feb. 13.
The
ASCA Scholars Bowl is a jeopardy-like game comprised of five rounds,
that challenges students' memory and knowledge in the subjects of
science, mathematics, history, arts, culture, geography and literature.
"Students
participating in the Scholars Bowl spend fall semester preparing for
competitions, and then begin competing in January in local high school
contests. The competition hosted at UAH is a district contest and the
winners move on to regional, and state competitions," said Bethany
Wilson, a coordinator in the UAH Honors College.
This year's competing schools include:
Ardmore High School
Athens High School
Bob Jones High School
Buckhorn High School
Covenant Christian Academy
East Limestone High School
Elkmont High School
Grissom High School
Hazel Green High School
Huntsville High School
Huntsville High School
James Clemens High School
Lee High School
Lee High School
New Century Technology High School
Randolph School
Sparkman High School
West Limestone High School
Round 1:
Lost to Buckhorn High School, 220-440.
Round 2:
Won against Ardmore 250-190,
Round 3:
Won against East Limestone, 235-175
Round 4:
Lost to James Clemmons, 235-425.
Linda Schmidt - Coach
Michael Farris - Team Captain
Johnathon Brown, Rachel Hammond, Hannah Hanback, Christina Stacy, Ben Ferguson, Cole Cook, Mia Farris, Lauren Simpson.
Our team represented itself well, especially when playing similar size schools. They will be advancing to the Small School State Competition Saturday, Feb 28th at Hoover High School in Birmingham. Wish them the best and hoping they bring home the gold.
Elkmont School received an email this week from the Alabama Scholastic Competition Association
that our middle school team has qualified for state competition. So now both our
high school team and middle school team will be headed to Hoover High
School to compete on February 28th!
We have so many athlete events from football to golf; each team has a full schedule with lots of games to report. However, we have another team that doesn't get as much attention but always represents Elkmont well, the high school scholar bowl team. This year's team of high achievers is:
Linda Schmidt - Coach
Michael Farris - Team Captain
Johnathon Brown, Rachel Hammond, Hannah Hanback, Christina Stacy, Ben Ferguson, Cole Cook, Mia Farris, Lauren Simpson.
They traveled to Wallace State for the small school competition, January 16. The teams were divided into pool play with the winner of each pool competing in the championship round. Elkmont went undefeated in their pool as they outscored Danville, Bellgreen, Deshler, East Lawrence and Tanner. In the championship round, Good Hope took the championship with Elkmont bringing home the silver as the runnerup.
Our scholars will be competing in the large school competition in Huntsville before taking on the county teams in the Limestone County Scholar Bowl Tournament in February.
