Leander ISD students had an amazing run at the 2025 UIL State Academic Meet! Big shoutout to the Rouse HS team made up of Renu Yannam, Dante Alden, Marcus Vizy, Anvi Taada for being named the state champion in the Current Issues & Events category and to Dante Alden of Rouse HS for earning the gold medal as an individual in the same category. 

In the 6A Conference, LISD students were named state champions in several categories, including: Nethra Tatiraju of Vista Ridge HS in Editorial and Eunchae Kang of Vista Ridge HS in News Writing. Nethra’s accomplishment in the Editorial category also earned her the “Tops in Texas” distinction, highlighting the best score across all conferences. Together, Nethra’s and Eunchae’s performances helped propel Vista Ridge to finish in 2nd place overall in the Journalism team category. In the Science category, Vista Ridge’s Siddharth Prasanna took home the gold for the Physics subcategory while Vandegrift’s Ankit Gupta earned the silver medal for the overall category.

In the 5A conference, Cedar Park High School finished as the state championship Journalism team. In the individual categories, Skyler King earned the silver medal in the Copy Editing category while Alyssa Fox took the second-place spot in Feature Writing. Sahana Chandran represented Glenn HS in the Persuasive Speaking category and was named the state runner-up. 

Also on the second place podium was Renu Yannam of Rouse HS in the Current Events & Issues category.

Several LISD students earned the bronze medal in their respective categories, including Kacey Miller in Headline Writing, Sophia Clapp in News Writing and the Rouse HS team in Social Studies. Audryn Lee of Vandegrift HS placed 3rd in Feature Writing. 

Congratulations on a job well done to each and every one of these students!

By the Numbers

  • 6 🏅 gold medals
  • 6 🥈 silver medals
  • 4🥉 bronze medals

State Results

Accounting

  • Avni Singh, Vandegrift HS – 6A (Alternate)

Calculator Applications

  • Parker Huang, Cedar Park HS – 5A (Alternate)

Computer Science

Individual

  • Parker Huang, Cedar Park HS – 5A | 10th Place
  • Darek Zhang, Leander HS – 5A | 4th Place

Team

  • Leander, 5A (Alternate):
    Darek Zhang, Ryan Shankar, Aiden Singh, Lalith Guthula

Copy Editing

  • Kacey Miller, Cedar Park HS – 5A
  • Skyler King, Cedar Park HS – 5A | 2nd Place
  • Nethra Tatiraju, Vista Ridge HS – 6A (Alternate)

Current Issues & Events

Individual

  • Renu Yannam, Rouse HS – 5A | 2nd Place
  • Marcus Vizy, Rouse HS – 5A | 11th Place
  • Dante Alden, Rouse HS – 5A | 1st Place
  • Aarav Ahuja, Vista Ridge HS – 6A (Alternate)

Team

  • Rouse HS, 5A | 1st Place
    Renu Yannam, Dante Alden, Marcus Vizy, Anvi Taada

Editorial

  • Kacey Miller, Cedar Park HS – 5A | 5th Place
  • Nethra Tatiraju, Vista Ridge HS – 6A | 1st Place (Tops in Texas across all conferences)

Feature Writing

  • Alyssa Fox, Cedar Park HS – 5A | 2nd Place
  • Audryn Lee, Vandegrift HS – 6A | 3rd Place 
  • Sophia Clapp, Leander HS  – 5A (Alternate)

Headline Writing

  • Kacey Miller, Cedar Park HS – 5A | 3rd Place
  • Nethra Tatiraju, Vista Ridge HS – 6A | 6th Place

Informative Speaking

  • Rishi Gogineni, Cedar Park HS – 5A (Alternate)

Journalism Team

  • Cedar Park HS, 5A | 1st Place
  • Vista Ridge HS, 6A | 2nd Place

Lincoln Douglas Debate

  • Mayank Bharadwaj, Rouse HS – 6A (Alternate)

Literary Criticism

Individual

  • Samantha Jameson, Cedar Park HS – 5A | 8th Place

Team

  • Cedar Park HS, 5A (Alternate):
    Samantha Jameson, Emmett Stone, Michael Rudakov, Amia De Leon

Mathematics

Individual

  • Krishna Perla, Rouse HS – 5A (Alternate)
  • Parker Huang, Cedar Park HS – 5A (Alternate)

Team

  • Rouse HS, 5A (Alternate):
    Krishna Perla, Naren Mayilsamy, Priyansu Lal, Nathaniel Bartholomew

News Writing

  • Sophia Clapp, Leander HS – 5A | 3rd Place
  • Eunchae Kang, Vista Ridge HS – 6A | 1st Place

Persuasive Speaking

  • Sahana Chandran, Glenn HS – 5A | 2nd Place
  • Gowri Maracany, Vista Ridge HS – 6A (Alternate)

Physics

  • Siddharth Prasanna, Vista Ridge HS – 6A | 1st Place

Poetry Interpretation

  • Kaelyn Jolly, Glenn HS – 5A (Alternate)

Science

  • Asseah Hashimi, Glenn HS – 5A | 20th Place
  • Ankit Gupta, Vandegrift HS – 6A | 2nd Place
  • Adhrut Kulkarni, Vista Ridge HS – 6A (Alternate)

Social Studies

Individual

  • Andrew Yoon, Rouse HS – 5A | 11th Place
  • Campbell Logan, Rouse HS – 5A | 11th Place
  • Marcus Vizy, Rouse HS – 5A (Alternate) | 4th Place
  • Evelyn Holmes, Rouse HS – 5A (Alternate) | 8th Place

Team

  • Rouse HS, 5A | 3rd Place
    Marcus Vizy, Andrew Yoon, Campbell Logan, Evelyn Holmes

Spelling

Individual

  • Kenzie Vo, Cedar Park HS – 5A | 4th Place

Team

  • Cedar Park HS, 5A (Alternate):
    Kenzie Vo, Savannah Fernsler, Kira Shepler, Emeric Famechon

See some photos of our medalists below.