Fallbrook High decathlon team earns third in county

Fallbrook High School placed third overall in the San Diego County Decathlon held on February 2.

Placement is based on a total point count earned by the entire Academic Decathlon Team in ten exams: Art, Language and Literature, Math, Economics, Science, Music, Essay, Super Quiz (theme: the Civil War), Speech and Interview.

Additionally, they placed first in the Interview category, second overall in Math and second overall in Essay.

The Fallbrook Academic Decathlon team coaches are Betz Critchley, Dorothy Hartford and Tracy Markham.

Note: The two schools that beat Fallbrook both have Academic Decathlon classes as part of their day, so the kids get credit and a grade. Fallbrook’s participants do this totally on their own time with no reward except personal achievement. Also, congratulations to Jeremiah Zamora, who became a US citizen three weeks ago.

Individual team members placed in the following categories:

nce earned silver (second place) in the Honors Division

• Jeremiah Zamora earned silver in the Scholastic Division

Language and Literature

• Jade Lawrence earned gold (first place) in the Honors Division

• Sydnee Caldwell earned silver in the Honors Division

Math

• Sydnee Caldwell earned silver in the Honors Division

• Brooke Wojdynski earned silver in the Varsity Division

Science

• Sydnee Caldwell earned silver in the Honors Division

Music

• Anna Phillips earned gold in the Scholastic Division

Essay

• Sydnee Caldwell earned silver in the Honors Division

• Maggie Maratsos earned bronze (third place) in the Honors Division

• Jeremiah Zamora earned gold in the Scholastic Division

• Tyler Smith earned bronze in the Scholastic Division

• Jake Isaac earned bronze in the Varsity Division

Speech

• Brooke Wojdynski earned bronze in the Varsity Division

Super Quiz

• Jade Lawrence earned silver in the Honors Division

• Jeremiah Zamora earned gold in the Scholastic Division

Interview

• Tyler Smith earned silver in the Scholastic Division

• Brooke Wojdynski earned silver in the Varsity Division