St. Rose Students Participate In PSIA

St. Rose of Lima Catholic School was blessed to have 11 students participate in the State Private School Interscholastic Association (PSIA) Academic Meet on Saturday, April 12, at Texas State University in San Marcos.

PSIA provides an extracurricular academic program for private, parochial, charter, and home-school students in grades 1-8. This includes 20 skill categories, producing 62 grade-level appropriate contests: Art, Calculator Applications, Creative Writing, Dictionary Skills, Impromptu Speaking, Information Skills, Listening Skills, Maps, Graphs & Charts, Mathematics, Modern Oratory, Music Memory, Number Sense, One-Act Play, On-Site Drawing, Poetry/Prose Interpretation, Ready Writing, Science, Spelling, Storytelling, and Vocabulary.

Only the top two winners from each event at the District 6A meet advanced to compete at the State Meet. Students were presented with either a medal or ribbon for their accomplishments.

Our State PSIA participants: Benjamin Sustr, Emileigh Divin, Micah Garcia, Brylee Stoever, Levi Johnson, Rylee Wright, Brynn Bubela, Charlotte Schmidt, Caroline Bartek, Reese Dusek, and Weston Hollas.

Congratulations to those who placed at the state meet: 8th grade: Reese Dusek- 5th place On-Site Drawing Weston Hollas- 4th place Number Sense 7th grade: Brynn Bubela- 1st place Ready Writing 6th grade: Levi Johnson- 6th place Ready Writing 5th grade: Brylee Stoever- 4th place Oral Interpretation 3rd grade: Emileigh Divin- 1st place Ready Writing Micah Garcia- 4th place Number Sense 2nd grade: Benjamin Sustr- 4th place Mathematics.