Clear Lake High School

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Clear Lake High School
Clear Lake High School logo
School Founded 1972
Team Established
History Clear Lake has qualified for State every year since 2012, often placing in the top 10 (2013, 2014, 2015, 2017)
City Houston, Texas
Team Colors Red and Blue
Principal David Drake
Head Coach Alexander Moore
Associate/Other Head Coach(es) Ashley Kennedy-Lee
National Championships None
State Championships None
Regional/County Championships None
Region/County Location Region V
Highest Finish 4th in State (2014)
School Website Website

Clear Lake High School is located in Houston, Texas. Their Academic Decathlon team experienced a resurgence (after not having been active for five year) in the 2011-2012 school year under the guidance of coach Alexander Moore. The team placed 21st at Large school State competition with a score of 38,909.1.

During the 2012-2013 school year, Clear Lake took everyone by surprise by taking 4th place at a local practice competition, narrowly beating out Katy Taylor by just five points. They went on to place 3rd in their region with a score of 39,627.3, making them 11th in Large schools and 16th statewide. At State competition, the team improved their score by nearly 5,000 points to 44,316.4, up to seventh in the entire state--fifth in Large. Of all teams, they experienced the highest increase with a gap closure of 23.13%.

In 2014, Clear Lake high school managed to cement its image as a black horse by working it's way up to fourth place, beating out former rival Nimitz. An impressive score of 46,324.9 put them in this position, and 11 medals were won by team members overall. Varsity student Rachael Ballard earned 3rd place in her category, with the rest of the team ranking in the top 5-15 places.

In 2015, Clear Lake excelled once again and managed to place the highest scoring Honors team in the state during Regionals, the entire team coming out with a total score of 45,612, placing 5th at Regionals. At State, Honors student Anne Zhou placed 1st place in the state overall, with an impressive score of 9,151. The team placed 9th in the state of all the large schools.

Performance Chart[edit]

Year Regionals Score Regionals Rank State Score State Rank
2019 43,345.1
2018 44,720.1 15th in Large 47,432.1 11th in Large
2017 45,452.6 10th overall, 7th in Large 45,759.2 14th overall, 8th in Large
2016 44,969.5 17th overall, 14th in Large 45,077.9 22nd overall, 14th in Large
2015 45,611.9 7th overall, 5th in Large 45,197.1 10th overall, 9th in Large
2014 46,234.0 5th overall, 4th in Large 46,324.9 6th overall, 4th in Large
2013 39,627.3 16th overall, 11th in Large 44,316.4 7th overall, 5th in Large
2012 38,518 35th overall, 23rd in Large 38,909.1 35th overall, 21st in Large
2011 DNC DNC DNC DNC
2010 DNC DNC DNC DNC
2009 31,793.4 DNQ DNQ
2008 32,890 DNQ DNQ
2007 36,102 DNQ DNQ
2006 38,488 31st overall, 23rd in Large 36,401.1 29th overall, 28th in Large
1996 35,342 ? overall, 40th in Large
1995 42,964 19th overall, 18th in Large
1994 42,329 12th overall, 11th in Large
1993 40,729 21st overall, 19th in Large

School Records[edit]

Honors Records (all known scores over 9,000)
Rank Student Division Year Level Score
1 Anne Zhou Honors 2015 Region 9,206.7
2 Anne Zhou Honors 2015 State 9,151.0
3 Richard Wu Honors 2015 Region 9,049.0
4 Grace Song Honors 2019 Region 9,012.4
Scholastic Records (all known scores over 8,000)
Rank Student Division Year Level Score
1 Clare Bernay Scholastic 2018 State 8,410.6
2 Clare Bernay Scholastic 2019 Region 8,162.1
3 Matthew Frost Scholastic 2014 Region 8,160.9
4 Rohan Sethi Scholastic 2017 Region 8,023.9
5 Clare Bernay Scholastic 2018 Region 8,015.7
Varsity Records (all known scores over 7,500)
Place Student Division Year Level Score
1 Rachael Ballard Varsity 2014 State 7,993.4
2 Rachael Ballard Varsity 2014 Region 7,782.1
3 Addie Molique Varsity 2016 Region 7,709.3

Team Rosters[edit]

Year Honors Scholastic Varsity Image
2019 Grace Song
Steven Wu
Vincent Cacciatore
Clare Bernay
Danielle Tauriello
James Selmarten
Alec Kokkinis
Patrick Smith
2018 Gayathri Krishna
Vincent Cacciatore
Daphne Breax
Clare Bernay
Jordan Yu
Dhyuti Venkataraman
Katherine Krueger
James Selmarten
Alonn Lewis
2017 Abhijeet Venkataraman
David Chen
Gayathri Krishna
Zohair Hashmy
Rohan Sethi
Rachel Reynolds
Yasir Syed
Caitlyn Krueger
Katherine Krueger
2016 Gregory Brookover
Ria Sur
Gayathri Krishn
Margaret Schweis
Ranya Kaluarachchi
April White
Addie Molique
Morgan Salgy
2015 Akshat Patel
Richard Wu
Anne Zhou
Madeline Fillip
Irene Shea
Anna Shulpina
Blair Alexander
Dylan Lee
[1]
2014 Daniel He
Patrick Pan
Anna Wang
Matthew Frost
Cameron Mackwell
Christine Nguyen
Rachael Ballard
Adrian Newell
2013 Kevin Cyr
Sina Ghodsi
Jeffery Xu
Khalil Manpuri
Adrian Newell
Kristin Sambell
Rachael Ballard
Suriya Koothan
Ben Price
[2]