Clear Lake High School

Clear Lake High School
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

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

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

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]