Honor Students Archive

OHIO - Akron - Miller South School for the Visual and Performing Arts Power of the Pen Tournament - April 6, 2006

Posted By: Honor Students Archive
Date: Monday, 2 September 2024, at 4:07 a.m.

April 6, 2006

Miller South team wins POP regional

AKRON — Miller South School for the Visual and Performing Arts’ eighth-grade team came in first place at the Power of the Pen (POP) Regional Tournament at Kent State University March 4.

The eighth- and seventh-grade teams competed against 28 others from Summit, Portage and Cuyahoga counties.

Seventh-grade student Greg Lenzo was awarded first place among all seventh-graders, and Ellen Rochford received the “Best of the Best Award” from the District competition.

Seventh-graders Lenzo, Drew Lindenberger and Rochford, and eighth-graders Rachel Bailey, Julie Botnick, Kati McGill and Shannon Thanasiu qualified for the state tournament, scheduled for May 26 at The College of Wooster.

Students pictured above include, from left: (first row) Botnick, Bailey and Lindenberger; (second row) McGill, Leah Friedlander and Thanasiu; (third row) Sarah Harp, Allison Zahorcak, Rochford, Claire Marks and Lenzo; and (fourth row) coaches Susan Wolak and Bonnie Wachter.

Recently Added and Updated Research Collections on Ancestry.com