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Team repeats as champions, secures record ninth US victory
LOS ANGELES, April 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Granada Hills Charter (GHC) today captured its record ninth US Academic Decathlon, repeating as national titlists in a competition that focused on a topic very familiar to the team: water.
The team scored 52,383.2 points to claim the title, with the highest-scoring students in their division being: Zainab Al-Atya, Colby Sapera, Lily Fairbank-Bermejo. Like the California Academic Decathlon held in March, the National competition took place virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Our whole team is thrilled to carry on Granada’s winning tradition,” said Head Coach Tyler Lee. “They deserve it after working hard all year and demonstrating real determination and dedication. Today’s win is a great accomplishment, but I always tell our team that what’s really important is they all learned a lot – about the subject, about how to handle adversity , about how to work as a team, and about themselves.”
The School’s nine-member team includes Zainab Al-Atya, Lily Fairbank-Bermejo, Vivian Le, Anthony Mercado (alternate), Vanessa Miller, Elyssa Nguyen (alternate), Kira Pospeshil, Matthew Salcedo, Colby…
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