Palisades team wins local quiz
Palisades Charter High School won the Los Angeles school district’s Academic Decathlon competition Tuesday night. That means almost another month of studying for the nine-member team before the state competition in March.
“It’s a really dedicated, disciplined group,” said Chris Lee, one of the team’s co-coaches. Lee graduated from Palisades Charter in 1990, the last time the Pacific Palisades school won the local competition.
Palisades Charter faced 64 other teams during the two-day competition, which included 10 oral and written quizzes.
The winning students racked up 50,121 points out of 60,000.
Palisades Charter students Kevin Gould, Sun John Ji, Thomas Krane, Jamie Lopez, Marvin Lopez, Preston Mendell, Hannah Moulthrop, Karl Niu and Weylin Wagnon have been preparing since last summer and studying at school until 9 most nights.
Lee said the team wouldn’t put in even longer hours -- but wouldn’t slack off either.
The top seven Los Angeles Unified School District teams go to Sacramento on March 8 to compete for the chance to go to the national tournament in May.
The other schools are El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills; North Hollywood High School; William Howard Taft High School in Woodland Hills; John Marshall High School in Silver Lake; Granada Hills Charter High School; and James A. Garfield High School in East L.A.
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