In its best PSIA showing ever, Brentwood Christian School placed second overall at the Private School Interscholastic Association AA state academic tournament held on the campus of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth on Saturday, April 25.  The middle school (grades 6-8) placed second and the elementary school (grades 1-5) placed fourth out of 91 schools competing at the tournament.

 Champions in their events, winning first place in the state of Texas, include:

• Priscilla Glenn, Impromptu Speaking 7/8
• Aaron Ho, Number Sense 7 and Mathematics 7
• Tyler Clark, Prose Interpretation 6
• Andrew Armstrong, Calculator Applications 6 (Andrew is a 5th grader)
• Miller Boykin, Spelling 2

Others placing and earning points for BCS at the state tournament:

• Jackson Graessle, Calculator Applications 7/8, 3rd place
• Matthew Scarborough, Maps/Graphs/Charts 6, 5th place
• Brendan Hollaway, Mathematics 5, 3rd place and Number Sense 5, 6th place
• Andrew Armstrong, Math 5, 6th place; Number Sense 5, 5th place; Music Memory 5, 2nd place
• Michael Lam, Math 6, 4th place
• Priscilla Glenn, Modern Oratory 7/8, 2nd place
• Emmanuel Ankutse, Spelling 2, 4th place
• Luke Allen, Spelling 4, 2nd place
• Tiara Allen, Spelling 5, 2nd place and Vocabulary 5, 2nd place
• Victoria Ryan, Storytelling 1, 6th place
• Whit Allee, Storytelling 2, 6th place

 Others competing for BCS at the state tournament:

• Lindsey Scarborough, Art Memory 4
• Austin Greene, Art Memory 4
• Matthew Scarborough, Calculator Applications 6 and Mathematics 6
• Hannah Witcher, Calculator Applications 7/8
• Lauren Hill, Dictionary Skills 5
• Sydney Wilson, Listening Skills 6
• Rachel Beggs, Maps/Graphs/Charts 4
• André Kuhn, Maps/Graphs/Charts 5
• Nicole Glenn, Maps/Graphs/Charts 6
• Grace Song, Music Memory 6
• Luke Allen, Number Sense 4
• Michael Lam, Number Sense 6
• Libin Koyikalathu, Number Sense 6
• Gabrielle Nguyen, Spelling 5
• Travis Teeter, Spelling 6

Qualifying for the state tournament but unable to attend was Co Ho, Maps/Graphs/Charts 7.

PSIA director Dr. Pat Walters will visit BCS on Thursday, May 14, to present the second-place trophy following the 9:40 all-school chapel that morning.  Parents are welcome to attend chapel and witness this ceremony.

Over 100 BCS students in grades 1 through 8 competed in March at the PSIA District 8AA tournament, and 27 of these students qualified to compete at the state tournament in 38 events.  The school is very proud of these outstanding students and the way they are developing their God-given talents. 

This final academic competition of the year shows that our younger students will be following in the footsteps of BCS secondary students, whose academic tournament successes this year include a first place sweepstakes trophy for the high school and a second place for the junior high at the Texas Christian Schools Interscholastic Tournament (TCSIT) and the state 4A championship for high school in the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools (TAPPS).

 Congratulations and thanks to these outstanding students, their parents, their teachers, and their academic coaches.