The Academic Team at DMS is currently allowing people to sign up and try out. Sally Wheeler is the head coach of the Academic Team. Wheeler said, “First we are in the process of tryouts and also getting more people to join for Academics.” Her biggest goal for Academics is to win and hopefully make it to state because it’ll be good for DMS and the team. Currently, Wheeler doesn’t know how many meets the team will have because it depends on the number of people who join. She does not know when the first meet is going to happen but the process of figuring it out is underway. She also mentioned doing online competitions and how it would benefit the team in many ways. No one knows when their first meeting, but it should be soon. Tryouts have not been planned yet either.
Cannon Atchley, an Academic Team member, has been on the team since last year and is eager to start the season. Atchley says “ The thing I’m most excited for is skipping school, winning, and hopefully getting a scholarship.” Atchley also says “You can do it”
Parker Sanders, another Academic Team Member, has also been on the academic team since last year. Sanders said, “Don’t memorize something you can look up later.”
Both Atchley and Sanders had talked about camp and they’d done good at the first one but hadn’t attended the 2nd one. Both have learned that they should be more focused because they’d like to win more. They say, in Academics, they’re skipping school and winning. Their goals for academics are to go and win state. The most important thing they want to achieve in academics is to gain scholarships. People currently a part of academics are JD, Huck, Hayden, Cannon Atchley, Park, and some others.
