Rain Fails to Dampen Spirit of Academic Decathlon Team
Heavy rain may have washed out classes Tuesday at Alemany High School, but it was business as usual for members of the school’s academic decathlon team.
While their classmates stayed home, nine of the 11 members of the Alemany team of juniors and seniors slogged their way to the Mission Hills campus to hunker down in a faculty lounge for a daylong study session with coaches Janie Prucha and Sharon Veenhof.
Alemany, which has won the Southern California Private Schools Academic Decathlon the past two years, will try to repeat on its home turf Saturday as the school hosts the competition.
Twenty-five schools in three divisions will compete in the 10-subject decathlon. The top school will go to the state finals in March.
“It’s a tough workload. It’s like taking 10 extra classes on top of their six,” said Prucha. “They’ve been working hard all year, but this week they are eating, drinking and sleeping decathlon.”
The Super Quiz part of the competition, which is open to the public, begins at 3 p.m. in the school’s Assembly Hall, 15101 San Fernando Mission Blvd.
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