Crossroads Wins Big at 2016 State Latin Convention

“Ubi concordia, ibi victoria.” Where there is unity, there is victory. This year’s Latin State Convention motto rang true for Crossroads School’s participants.

 

More than 1,100 students from 42 schools descended upon Woodbridge School in Irvine last month for the annual competition, and Crossroads won big individually and as a team. The Middle School took third place among large schools, and the Upper School placed second overall among medium-sized high school delegations.

 

The Middle School won a total of 11 academic awards, nine arts awards, three athletic awards and seven chapter awards, including first place for the banner, publicity, scrapbook and spirit categories. Click here to view the complete list of winners.

 

Seventh-graders Ezra Barber and Saga Leslie tied for first place in the reading comprehension award, and Addison Davis earned first place in ancient geography.

 

Dante Vaisbort, a 10th-grader, took the overall individual academic award. Second place in competitive certamen went to a 10th-grade team comprising Dante, Casse Alimento-Miller, Robin Kim and Noah Evers. Casse also won first place in the academic pentathlon and vocabulary tests.

 

Crossroads’ Upper School performed well in multiple arts competitions, including second place for the chapter T-shirt, designed by 10th-grader Candice Bina, first place in the pre-convention contest of Modern Myth by 12th-grader Dexter Summers and third place in “That’s Entertainment” by 10th-grader Isaac Pross.

 

The team of 12th-graders Keith Closs, Kwame Williams and Wes Mahoney, and 10th-graders Austin Astrup and Madison Quan and ninth-grader Chris Jones secured third place in basketball.  

 

Jack Sadoff, an 11th-grader, was elected to the State Board as Southern representative, which means that Crossroads will host S.C.R.A.M. (Southern California Regional Amici Madness) this fall.