Shelbyville students finish fourth overall at IJCL Latin State Convention competitions

Fifteen Shelbyville Middle School and Shelbyville High School students recently traveled to Bloomington to compete in the IJCL State Latin Convention.

Nearly 250 Latin students from more than 15 different schools competed in various categories.

Shelbyville, under the direction of Latin teacher Whitney Campbell (photo, far left) produced 97 top-10 placings and finished fourth overall in the large school sweepstakes.

Sharielis Rodriguez, representing Shelbyville High School, earned the $500 Eileen Johnson Memorial Scholarship.

Here is how the Shelbyville contingent fared:

Anna Ballast, 41 points tallied, finished in first place in Modern Myth Ev Barnum, 20 points, finished fourth in Roman History (Level IV) Olivia Bowman, 56 points, finished first in Slogan (“Roman Roads, take me home!”) and second in Small Models Sydney Brown, 6 points, placed fourth in Greeting Cards Baileigh Butler (SMS), 9 points, placed fifth in Geography (Level I) Lilly Conners, placed ninth in a variety of contests including Cartoons & Mottoes, Quotes & Abbreviations (Level III) Trinity Darling, 10 points, finished second in Greeting Cards Cora Flynn, 38 points, finished second in Mosaics Harika Patel, 23 points, placed first in Digital Art Leila Patrick, 32 points, placed third in both Decorative Stitching/Textiles & Hellenic History (Level V) Sharielis Rodriguez, 8 points, finished third in Large Models Andrea Rosales, 21 points, finished third in Geography (Level IV) and Colored Pencil Shayden Schiloski, 43 points, placed third in Jewelry Candace Washburn, 63 points, finished first in Greek Derivatives (Level I) and second in Black Pencil Addysyn Wettrick, 18 points, placed fifth in Latin Literature (Level V)

Other awards bestowed on the Shelbyville group were third place for delegate spirit and fifth place for chapter T-shirt design.

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