All Competitions

Hamilton High School took the 2019 State Championship trophy with a total of 47,544.7 points. Along with the first place trophy they won the Gold Super Quiz Trophy with a total of 34 points.  Canyon del Oro High School placed second and Westwood High School placed third.  In addition to Hamilton advancing to nationals in [...]

The 2019 Region winners are: in Region I in first place St. Johns High School, in second place Show Low High School and Prescott High School placed third; in Region II Cesar Chavez High School took first place followed by Basis Peoria in second place, and South Mountain High School in third place; in Region […]

Arizona was represented by three additional teams this year in the USAD National competition.   The large, medium, and small school teams competed in an online competition. The large school was the second place team from Hamilton High School. The medium school team is the 3A winning school Seton Catholic High School a high score of […]

  The National competition took place in Frisco, Texas on April 19-21, 2018. Canyon del Oro placed 4th in Division I and 5th overall in the nation with a score of 47,426.7. Team members from CDO are: Piper Gray, Chloe Penna, Kailee Savage, Allienna Nezelek, Carter Hollings, Zachariah Hobby, Javier Lopez, and Michael Cox. Congratulations […]

2018 State Competition The 2018 state competition was held at ASU West on March 9 and 10, 2018.  There were 40 teams that qualified for the competition. Canyon del Oro High School from Tucson Amphitheater district took the state championship with 47,303 points. The other teams that made the top ten were: Hamilton (Chandler)45,129; Mountain […]

The top students for the entire 10 event competition were honored with medals at the state competition. Anna Cheng of BASIS Chandler took home  the trophy for highest individual ten-event score of the competition. In the Honors category: Anna Cheng, BASIS Chandler 9101.6 Nathan Bergman, Westwood 9083.7 Justin Zhu, Hamilton 9008.3 In the Scholastic category […]

The National competition took place in Garden Grove, CA on April 16-18. Canyon del Oro placed 4th in Division I and 5th overall in the nation with a score of 47,480. Team members from CDO are: Nicole Enos, Luisa Placencia Carranza, Michael Yuhas, Sarah Spurlin, Mason Sargent, Caleb Yetman, Martin Ramirez Araujo, and Matthew Welch. […]

Arizona will be represented by two additional teams this year in the USAD National competition. The medium and small school teams will compete in an on-line competition. The medium school team is the 3A winning school Seton Catholic Preparatory with a high score of 34,009.2 pts. The small school winning team is the highest scoring […]

Outstanding Trophy Awarded to Speech                            Anna Cheng                  Basis Chandler Interview                       Caleb Yetman               Canyon del Oro Essay                              Matt Welch                   Canyon del Oro Ten Event Varsity Gold                  Caleb Yetman               Canyon del Oro Silver                 Anthony Ordaz              Westwood Bronze               Shea Salem       […]

The Super Quiz competition took place in the Fitness Center at ASU Polytechnic  Saturday March 14 in front of a large crowd of cheering parents and supporters. Ms. Angie Bond-Simpson of SRP was the host emcee for the event, with the topic of “New Alternatives in Energy.” There were 3 rounds of 12 questions each […]