Aubrey team places third

Aubrey High School UIL Academics-Speech-Debate team placed third overall out of 14 participating teams at the Holliday, Texas tournament Jan. 21.

Individual event winners at the competition include:

Baylee Friday won first place honors in Impromptu Speaking and Impromptu Interpretation. Jacob Wofford placed first in Humorous Interpretation and third place in both Impromptu Interpretation and Prose Interpretation. Taylor Hood took first place in Dramatic Interpretation. Maggie McCullough was recognized as top speaker in Cross-Examination Debate and Trey Petty and Taylor Wilcox earned third place that event. In the Lincoln-Douglas Debate competition, Juanita Sanchez placed first and Joseph DeRusha took third place.

The Group Improvisation team of Rachel David, Baylee Friday, Jonathan Ibarra and Jacob Wofford won third place honors. First place winners for Group Lip Sync were the team of Rachel David, Hayley Ford, Jonathan Ibarra and Jacob Wofford.

Singers plan Valentine program

The Opera House Singers will present a Valentine’s concert at 2 p.m. Sunday in the upstairs showroom of the Pilot Point Community Opera House. Songs to be performed include: Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Always, Unchained Melody, What I Did for Love and Goodnight, Sweetheart.

The concert is free and open to the public. The Pilot Point Community Opera House is located at 110 S. Washington Street.

Students named to Tarleton list

Six students from Pilot Point were named as Tarleton State University’s Distinguished Students for the fall 2011 semester: Blake Welch, Riley Howard, Emma Jones, Alyson Buckingham, Brandon Paige and Taylor Wilson.

Freshman and sophomore students must have a minimum 3.25 grade point ratio with no grade lower than C, and juniors and seniors must have a minimum grade point ration of 3.5 with no grade lower than a C to be recognized as distinguished students. Additionally, all students must be in good standing with the university.

FFA members win in Ft. Worth

Entries by Devin Stuckly and Britt Larson, FFA members from Pilot Point High School, placed in the 2012 Fort Worth Stock Show.

Stuckly showed the first place Simmental in the Junior Heifer Show.

Larson received the Showmanship Award in the Junior Simbrah Heifer Show.