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Hunting Ridge Teams Win Highest Honors in Wordmasters Challenge
Two teams of students representing Hunting Ridge School recently won highest honors in the WordMasters Challenge, a three-meet national language arts competition entered by more than 225,000 students annually.
Competing in the difficult blue division of the challenge, the school’s fourth-grade team, supervised by teacher Linda Marie Parr, placed seventh in the nation in the year-end cumulative standings among 724 school teams participating at this level and in this division. A team of sixth graders, supervised by teacher Marcia Rydquist, also placed seventh in the nation among 436 competing teams.
Three of the school’s students won highest honors for yearlong individual achievement. Sixth grader Haley Shoaf earned perfect scores in all three of the year’s meets and placed among the four highest-ranked sixth graders in the country in the cumulative standings. Fourth graders Kendall Gaspari and Andrew Marturano, who only made one mistake each all year, were among the 29 highest-ranked fourth graders nationwide.
Five of the school’s students also won highest honors for individual achievement in the year’s final meet: fourth graders Kendall Gaspari, Ben Lewis, and Ann Feldmann were among 98 fourth graders nationwide to earn perfect scores, and sixth graders Haley Shoaf and Lia Pagones were among just 71 sixth graders to do so.
Other students who achieved outstanding results in the final meet included fourth graders Andrew Marturano, Katie Iuorio, Jimmy Tang, Krystyna Lopez, Elizabeth Tokarz, and Matt Isola; and sixth graders Erik Savitt, Rebecca Freeman, Jake Winter, Kenny Bourgon, Mark Koren, Charlie Crowe, and Scott Pusateri.
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