Montoursville Academic Decathlon team headed to state finals
The Academic Decathlon of Central Pennsylvania recently held its District Competition for the 2023-2024 year at Penns Valley High School in Spring Mills, where Montoursville Area High School’s team placed third out of seven teams, according to a press release. The results qualified Montoursville’s team for the state finals for the 17th consecutive year. State finals will be held in March in Carlisle.
The following students won the following medals:
Honors Division
• Addison Confer, junior, bronze in music and social science
• Riley Nelson, senior, bronze in essay
Scholastic Division
• Melody Rzeszotarski, senior, gold in essay, art and economics; silver in music, literature, social science and speech; bronze in science; gold in overall score
• Zach McGarvey, senior, bronze in economics and speech
Varsity Division
• Grace Barkauskas, sophomore, gold in music; silver in essay; bronze in literature and science
• Haily Copp, senior, gold in science, art and economics; bronze in social science
• Reese Peterson, sophomore, silver in art and economics; bronze in essay
Montoursville seniors, Orion Boyles and Gabi Pulizzi, juniors, Sydney Coborn and Naomi Zeigler and freshman, Reagan Gonzalez, Alex Martyniuk and Noah Smith, also participated.