FWCD Latin Clubs Host 500 DFW-area Latin Teams

On Saturday, February 21, FWCD’s Latin Clubs hosted the Texas State Junior Classical League Area C Convention, bringing more than 500 DFW-area Latin students and their teachers to campus for a day of competition and fun. Blake Wood ’27 served as this year’s student chairperson. Leading FWCD’s Latin Clubs in hosting academic, athletic and artistic events during the day -- everything from Latin grammar to ancient geography, photography to costumes, and basketball to a catapult competition.

Latin Teachers Clint Hagen (Middle School) and Bryan Carlson (Upper School) would also like to thank all of the parents and faculty who volunteered to help during the day. “We are especially grateful to Middle School Science Teacher Victoria Bergman, who organized and deployed volunteers during the day,” they said, “and to Monica Wood, who headed up our parent volunteers and organized concessions.”

College professors Teres Danze (University of Dallas), Simon Burris (Baylor University), Sean Gurd (The University of Texas at Austin), Stephanie Murphy (University of North Texas), and Bob Cape (Austin College) judged the competitions. Cape and Gurd also led academic colloquia (Classical Myth and History in Recent Science Fiction and Ancient Greek Music: A Practical Introduction) on their areas of specialization. 

Schools attending the competition were All Saints’ Episcopal School, Carroll High School, Fort Worth Country Day, Founders Classical Academy of Flower Mound, Founders Classical Academy of Prosper, Greenhill School, Highland Park High School, Jesuit Dallas, John Paul II High School, Parish Episcopal School, Richardson High School, Sherman High School, St Mark’s School of Texas, The Covenant School, The Hockaday School, Trinity Valley School, and Vanguard College Preparatory School.

The following FWCD students won awards at this competition:

MIDDLE SCHOOL

Sixth Grade
Sophia Abercrombie: 3rd Computer Enhanced Photography
Patrick Quijada: 3rd Mottoes, Quotations, & Abbreviations
Ishana Samart: 4th, Classical Art

Seventh Grade
Thomas Cole: 3rd Decathlon

Eighth Grade
Samuel Lim: 2nd Latin Derivatives
Baxter Nowlin: 2nd Roman History (Empire)
Grace Rymell: 4th Latin Derivatives
Blake Sloan: 4th Ancient Geography
Bonnie Sloan: 3rd Mixed Media; 5th Mottoes, Quotations, & Abbreviations
Ian Wood: 1st Roman History (Empire); 5th Roman History (Monarchy & Republic); 1st Catapult

UPPER SCHOOL

Freshman
Aaron Bagshahi: 5th Advanced Grammar
Mars McWaters: 3rd Greek History; 2nd Roman History(Empire)
Burkley Massey: 3rd Illustrated Quote; 2nd Sight Latin Reading

Sophomore
Ronan Acuña Guba: 2nd Mottoes; 3rd vocabulary
Nat Angel: 5th Classical Art; 5th Latin Derivatives; 2nd Mixed Media Art
Riley Hudman: 2nd Decathlon; 3rd vocabulary
Hudson Parcells: 5th Mythology

Junior
Blake Wood: 2nd Vocabulary; 3rd Latin Literature

Senior
Andrew Lobo: 1st Latin Derivatives; 2nd Advanced Grammar