Walla Walla High School students place 12th in nation in WordMasters competition

Walla Walla High School students place 12th in nation in WordMasters competition
A team of students representing Walla Walla High School recently won highest honors in this year's WordMasters Challenge, a national competition for high school students requiring close reading and analysis of many different kinds of prose and poetry.

Participating with 526 other school teams from all across the country, Wa-Hi's 9th grade students tied for 12th place in the nation in the year's third meet, held in February.

More than 52,000 students from across the country and from three foreign nations participated. The team was supervised by Walla Walla High School English Teacher Lori Dohe.

WordMasters individual honors:
- Junior Olivia Welker: Placed among the 25 highest-scoring 11th graders in the country. She made only one mistake.
- Other high scorers included: Tanner McCoon, Kalie Adams, Luke Flippo, Ashley Melton, Clare Reese, Gregg Heller, Jocelyn Thompson, Krystal Bautista, Sarah Fuller, Anna Tupper-Bridges and Kailee Willard.