Monmouth Academy earns Maine Academic Decathlon championship

SCARBOROUGH — The Monmouth Academy Academic Decathlon Team, coached by Cathy and Scott Foyt, won the State of Maine Academic Decathlon state championship at Scarborough High School March 3.
The top five schools in this year’s state Academic Decathlon championship are, in order, Monmouth Academy, Scarborough, Bangor, Hall-Dale and Calais high schools.

Academic Decathlon comprises A, B and C students, who study together as a team for a year and then compete in 10 categories — art, economics, essay, interview, language/literature, mathematics, music, science, social science and speech.
The theme changes every year; for example, last year’s theme was World War II; this year’s theme is Africa; and next year’s theme will be the 1960’s.
In the past, Monmouth has competed in the following National Academic Decathlon Championships: 1999 California, 2002 Arizona, 2004 Idaho, 2013 Minnesota and 2016 Alaska; this year, the team will travel to the national championship in Frisco, Texas, in April.
At the most recent competition, the following students participated for Monmouth and won the following medals:
Alternate Team Members — Jocelyn Coffin, Taylor Whalen, Grace Vierling, Joe Crocker, Delaney Houston, Chloe Dwinal, Alicen Burnham, Cammie Houston, Hayden Luce (bronzeJmusic), Jessica Clavet (bronze – art), Kyle Gunnells (bronze – music), and Evan Hasenfus (silver – essay and bronze J economics).
Competition Team Members — Kaitlin Hunt, Natalie Grandahl (gold – language/literature and silver – interview); Ed Zuis (silver – speech and bronze – math and art); Chris Dumont (silver – music, essay, and language/literature and bronze – social science); Rhayna Poulin (silver – language/literature and science and bronze – essay, art, and social science); Amber Currie (silver – speech, music, and essay, and bronze – interview, art, and language/literature); Bryce Boulet (gold – speech, silver – art, social science and language/literature, and bronze – science, essay, economics, and music); Dylan Goff (gold – interview and economics, silver – language/literature, and bronze – science); and Jaryd Bates (gold – essay, economics, art, social science, music, language/literature, and silver – science and math).
Highest team scorer – Dylan Goff; third highest varsity scorer in Maine – Amber Currie; second highest varsity scorer in Maine – Bryce Boulet; second highest honors scorer and 2nd highest all Divisions Scorer in Maine – Dylan Goff.
Highest Varsity Scorer in the state of Maine – Jaryd Bates.