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A night to remember - Chapel Hill High School

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Page 4 Congratulations<br />

Page 5<br />

Congratulations <strong>to</strong> the<br />

<strong>High</strong>lighters, who are first<br />

place national academic<br />

champions with a cumulative<br />

team GPA of 3.71.<br />

The girls won ten<br />

awards in a recent national/internationalcompetition<br />

with over 130 schools<br />

at the University of North<br />

Texas in Den<strong>to</strong>n.<br />

“Ms. Quinn and I are extremely<br />

proud of our team,”<br />

direc<strong>to</strong>r Katie Griffin said.<br />

“Thanks <strong>to</strong> our teachers, we<br />

have the smartest group of<br />

girls out there. The team<br />

<strong>High</strong>lighters bring home American Championship Awards<br />

made friends with girls from<br />

Japan and have lots of s<strong>to</strong>ries<br />

<strong>to</strong> share.”<br />

The <strong>High</strong>lighters were<br />

fifth runners-up in the medium<br />

class school category<br />

and placed sixteenth in the<br />

international champion<br />

overall ranking against all<br />

teams, regardless of size.<br />

Awards included the following:<br />

1. National Champions<br />

first runner-up in officer<br />

modern<br />

2. National Champions<br />

second runner-up in team<br />

military<br />

3. National Champions<br />

second runner-up in team<br />

pom<br />

4. National Champions<br />

third runner-up in team<br />

novelty<br />

5. Solo Finalist fifth runner-up:Samantha<br />

McMahan<br />

6. Gussie Nell Davis<br />

Award of Excellence (Team):<br />

90 or above from every judge<br />

on every routine<br />

7. Gussie Nell Davis<br />

Award of Excellence (Officers):<br />

90 or above from every<br />

judge on every routine

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