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Knowledge Bowl:The Knowledge Bowl team won the 2A division of the regional competition in Spokane on Friday ,3/1/13. They won the right to participate in the State tournament in Arlington on March 23.  The team members included Liz Guzman, captain, plus Sarah Baik, Katy Akmal, Priyanka Muhunthan, Robby Handy, Matt Larson, and Daisy Ward. Please congratulate these students on a fine job!

Band and Orchestra Win Academic State Championships:

We are pleased to announce that the Pullman High School Band and Orchestra have joined our Fall state champions Girls’ Soccer and Boys’ Cross Country as WIAA/Dairy Farmers of Washington/Les Schwab Tires 2A Academic State Champions.  The 57 member Orchestra earned an accumulative GPA of 3.795.  The 37 member band earned a 3.540 GPA.  Both programs will be honored with a date plaque in the gym with all of our Academic State Champions from the past.  In addition, each will receive a plaque from the WIAA for their awards’ cases.  By winning the state championship, each earned 100 points toward the WIAA Scholastic Cup which recognizes both athletic and academic achievement.  Currently PHS is in 3rd place out of 64 2A schools.  Congratulations to Katharine Covill and Nick Courtnage and all of our orchestra and band students for this fine accomplishment. 

Three other Winter programs also earned points for their academic achievement. Girls’ Basketball placed 5th for 30 points, Boys’ Swim placed 2nd  for 80 points, and Drama placed 4th for 40 points.  Hopefully, we will still earn points in boys’ and girls’ basketball and boys’ swim as they continue their post season competitions.   
Go Hounds!!!
 
The Science Bowl Teams had an outstanding performance at the Department of Energy's Regional Science Bowl competition in Spokane on Saturday, February 2, 2013. "PullmanTeam 1", consisting of Vivek Jayaram,   Rachit Singh,  Jaeyoung Heo,  Aneesh Pappu, and Moritz Lange were undefeated in the competition, and won an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington DC to participate in the National Science Bowl competition from April 25-29.  Pullman's second team also performed extremely well, bringing home the third place trophy, and almost beating the second-place team, Coeur d’Alene Charter Academy.   Pullman’s second team consisted of Yilun Du, Stephanie Her, Priyanka Muhunthan, Alexander Schulze-Makuch, and Henry Zhang.

This is the eleventh time in twelve years that Pullman has won the regional competition,even though the “region” has changed three times.  Most members of the current teams got their start playing in the middle school competitions at Lincoln Middle School.

Please congratulate these students!

Congratulations to the PHS DECA group that competed at theirRegional Competition on Monday, 12/10/12. Once again the Greyhounds represented theirschool well competing against over 700 Area 11 competitors. The top 8 placersget to move on to state in Bellevue in March. Go Hounds!

 

·        Ryan Pitzer- 2nd Place Restaurantand Food Service Management

·        Tyler Nestegard- 3rd Place RetailMerchandising

·        Shantara Pintak- 2nd Place Business Services

·        Justin Haugen Garrett Fletcher- 10thPlace Sports and Entertainment Team

·        Jake Staniszewski- 2nd Place Auto ServicesMarketing

·        Tayler Whitehead- 2nd Place Apparel &Accessories

·        Sara Nelson- 3rd Place Principles ofMarketing

·        Blake Imler Will Hindman- 9th PlaceTravel and Tourism Team

·        Justin Cillay- 15th Place FoodMarketing

·        Jenna Metzer- 3rd Place Hotel and LodgingManagement

·        Jayden Bowker- 5th Place Marketing Management

·        Avila Wood- 18th Place HumanResources Management

 

 

 

Math is Cool  At the regional "Math is Cool" competition on 10/24/12, Pullman took firstplace in the 11-12th grade division, and a second to Hanford High (by onepoint!) in the 9-10th grade division.  They also won individual trophiesin the following levels:
 
AlgebraII: Peter Chen (4th) and Katy Akmal (5th)

Pre-Calculus:Henry Zhang (5th)

Theytotally dominated the Calculus division: Rachit Singh (1st), Vivek Jayaram(2nd), Yilun Du (3rd), Aneesh Pappu (9th), and Jaeyoung Heo (10th).
"TopStudent" awards for our school included Rachit, Henry, and Peter,plus Jessica Brar for Geometry.
 
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 The PHS Knowledge Bowl Team wins State Championship. They came up with an amazing performance in the final rounds of the State Knowledge Bowl tournament in Marysville, WA on Saturday, March 17.  After a 5th-place seeding from the preliminary rounds, the team of Willa Middaugh, Vishaka Muhunthan, Malte Lange, Freddy Chen, Liz Guzman, and Henry Zhang defeated Ellensburg and R.A Long (Longview) high schools in the semi-final round, and then went on to defeat Mark Morris (Longview) and top-ranked Cedarcrest (Duval) in the final round.  This is the second state championship for our captains Willa and Vishaka, who were also on the team that won in 2010.   Congratulations!
Orchestra Wins WIAA Academic State Championship: The Pullman High School Orchestra won the WIAA/Dairy Farmers of Washington/Les Schwab Academic State Championship.  The 53 members earned a combined GPA 3.631 which was the highest of the approx. 60 2A schools.  Congratulations to the PHS Orchestra for demonstrating excellence on the stage and in the classroom.
 
Destination Imagination Places 2nd:  The PHS Destination Imagination Team placed 2nd at the Regional Tournament on 3-3-12.  Congratulations DI!

PHS does well in the new Inland Northwest Science Bowl competition in Spokane.  Team Pullman One, with Mitchell Tang, Vishaka Muhunthan, Rachit Singh, Vivek Jayaram, and Jimmy Yin took first place, winning an all-expenses-paid trip to the national competition in Washington DC at the end of April.  Both other Pullman teams advanced to the elimination tournament as well. Other participants included Frederick Chen, Malte Lange, Jaeyoung Heo, Aneesh Pappu, Alexander Schulze-Makuch, Wendoline Mercado-Rojano, Moritz Lange, Yilun Du, Katy Akmal, Henry Zhang, Stephanie Her, SoohHo Hwang, Priyanka Muhunthan, Robby Handy, Miya Spencer, Louisa Reilly, and Shiyue Wang. 
This will be the tenth year (of eleven participation) that Pullman has been the regional champions.

 
The Knowledge Bowl Team won the 2A Regional competition on Friday, and will advance to the State competition on March 17 in Marysville.  Congratulations to Willa Middaugh, Vishaka Muhunthan, Freddy Chen, Malte Lange, Liz Guzman, and Henry Zhang.  They were also 6th in the overall tournament among schools from all categories.

Sydney Reynolds, a junior at Pullman High School won the Washington State American Legion Constitutional Oratorical Contest!  She will be going on to represent the state of Washington at the national contest in Indianapolis, Indiana! She will receive a $3,500 college scholarship for winning state and going to compete at Nationals!

 Pullman FFA Agriculture Sales Team won 1st place in the district competition.  This win qualifies them for the state competition in May. KT McMurray (1st place individual),Sydney Reynolds (3rd place individual),Mandy Lehmitz (4th place individual),Ashley Reisenauer

Pullman High School students competed in their first Regional DECA competition at Spokane Falls Community College on 12/14/11with over 700 students and 17 schools from the Spokane Region. Of our eight state qualifiers, Jake Staniszewski finished 1st place in the region, Shantara Pintak finished 2nd place in the region, and Tayler Whitehead and Jenna Metzer finished 3rd place in the region.

DECA members compete in a variety of events which include categories such as food marketing, retail merchandising, sports and entertainment marketing, business law and ethics, travel and tourism and hospitality.  Members present projects, complete role plays and test their overall business and marketing knowledge and skills.

PHS MATH TEAM Fall Start-Up Event 2011: RESULTS     Twenty members of the PHS Math Team participated on September 22 in a mail-in math competition called the Fall Start-Up Event, earning a 7th place finish in the national standings.
For the complete story, see the Math Team page under Activities
 
 
Pullman FFA Horse Evaluation Team wins State Championship
The Pullman FFA Horse Evaluation Team who won the state contest Friday 9-16-11 and will be traveling to Indianapolis, Indiana next month to compete nationally!  Team members are: Mandy Lehmitz

KT McMurray, Maja Olson, Ashley Reisenauer, Sydney Reynolds.

Also,  our varsity livestock judging team placed 2nd at the Puyallup Fairs out of over 60 teams!

Lizbeth Bumstead, Arabella Dowell, Jackson Kincaid, Maja Olson, Ashley Reisenauer.