Seven Lakes High School
| Seven Lakes High School | |
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| School Founded | 2005 |
| Team Established | 2005-06 |
| History | The Spartan Decathlon team has qualified for the State Meet every year, including their inaugural year where they competed with only 9th and 10th graders. |
| City | Katy, TX |
| Team Colors | Navy, Orange, and White |
| Principal | Kerri Finnesand |
| Head Coach | John Mitchell |
| Associate/Other Head Coach(es) | None |
| National Championships | NONE |
| State Championships | 1 (2010) |
| Regional/County Championships | 5 (2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013) |
| Region/County Location | Region VII |
| Highest Finish | 1st Place Overall Team TX LS Division (2010) |
| School Website | Link |
Seven Lakes High School is a member of Katy ISD, located in Katy, Texas. Seven Lakes opened its doors in 2005 with only 9th and 10th graders. The Spartan Decathlon team opted to compete in the AD competition in their first year. The Spartans surprised many across the AD community by finishing 2nd at Regionals, behind State power Friendswood, and finishing in the top 20 in the state among all 4A high schools in that inaugural year. The Spartans continued the strong improvement in their second year, when they finished the year ranked #6 among all 4A high schools. The third year for the Spartans was very memorable as they shocked the AD community by handing Friendwood their first head to head loss by capturing the Region V MS title. The Spartans finished off the miracle by defeating strong contenders at the state meet and became the first school in the history of TAD to take a state championship away from 15 time state champion Friendswood. The 2009 season saw the Spartans move into 5A, where they finished 3rd in their first large school competition. In 2010, just their second year in the large school division, Seven Lakes won their first state championship and went to nationals, where they finished 4th in the large school division. 2011 was another strong year for the Spartans, taking second place in large school to Dobie. This would be the last year for John Irish, the coach responsible for the program since its birth. In 2012, Bill Marzen and Duff McClain, previous assistant coaches, stepped up to fill Irish's spot along with Jonathan Frishman. In 2015, Justine Frazier took up the mantle to join Frishman, replacing Duff McClain, who left after the 2014-2015 school year. In 2018, John Mitchell joined Frishman, replacing Justine Frazier, who left after the 2017-2018 school year. Mitchell and SLHS alumnus Andy Merrick took over in the Covid-affected year of 2020-21, when Frishman left to initiate the program at newly-opened Jordan High School.
Seven Lakes High School
9251 S. Fry Rd.
Katy, Texas 77494
281-237-2800
Team Website
Academic Decathlon
Team History
2006 - Inaugural Year
Team Members: Franziska Luttge (10th), Lauren Hendrickson (9th), Fei-Fei Zhang (10th), Toni Alimi (9th), Brittany Herman (10th), Evan Hvatum (9th), Anirban Bhaumik (10th), and Stephanie Seuffert (10th).
Region V MS Meet 2nd Place Overall Team, 3rd Place SQ Relay, 2nd Place SQ Overall Team.
State MS Meet Final State Rank: #19
2007
Team Members: Franziska Luttge (11th), Lauren Hendrickson (10th), Peter Ye (11th), Toni Alimi (10th), Susan Xie (11th), Diana Yan (11th), John Werner(11th), Amber Nicholson (11th), and Kitty Kovalcik (11th).
Region V MS Meet 2nd Place Overall Team, 2nd Place SQ Relay, 2nd Place SQ Overall Team.
State MS Meet Final State Rank: #6
2008
Team Members: Franziska Luttge (12th), Lauren Hendrickson (11th), Stephen Tu (12th), Toni Alimi (11th), John Werner (12th), Susan Xie (12th), Pulkit Moudgil (11th), Kitty Kovalcik (12th), and Pete Crew (12th).
Region V MS Meet 1st Place Overall Team, 1st Place SQ Relay, 1st Place SQ Overall Team.
State MS Meet 1st Place Overall Team, 2nd Place SQ Relay, 2nd Place SQ Overall Team - the only school to receive all three team medals.
In 2008 the Spartans set a number of Medium School records.
First, they were the first school to defeat Friendswood at State.
Second, they recorded the highest score in Texas Medium School history with a score of 47,941.
Third, Toni Alimi became the highest scoring Scholastic individual in Medium School history.
Fourth, Stephen Tu scored the highest overall State score in all classifications with a score of 9,014.
2009
Team Members: Lauren Hendrickson (12th), Sirus Jesudasen (10th), Erin Flattery (12th), Steven Wan (11th, H Alt), Toni Alimi (12th), John Lechner (12th), Pulkit Moudgil (12th), Raul Calzada (11th, S Alt), David Garcia (12th), Mark Caldwell (11th), Cody Metzler (11th), Tammy To (10th, V Alt).
Region VII LS Meet 2nd Place Overall Team, 2nd Place SQ Relay, 2nd Place SQ Overall Team.
State LS Meet 3rd Place Overall Team, 2nd Place SQ Relay, 3rd Place SQ Overall Team - Seven Lakes and James E. Taylor were the only schools to receive all three top three team medals.
Individuals of note: Toni Alimi finished as the Overall Highest Scroing Scholastic, for the second year in a row. Erin Flattery finished as the Third Highest Scoring Honors. Toni, Erin, and Lauren Hendrickson all broke 8,500 and were inducted into the SLHS AD Hall of Fame. Also of note, Sirus Jesudasen scored an 8,376 as a 10th grader.
2010
Team Members: Sirus Jesudasen (11th), Steven Wan (12th), Jonathan Xu (10th), Matt Bernhard (11th), Mike Bourgeois (12th), Raul Calzada (12th), Mark Caldwell (12th), Vincent Lam (12th), and Kyle Mock (12th).
Region VII LS Meet 1st Place Overall Team, 1st Place SQ Relay (42/45), 1st Place SQ Overall Team.
State LS Meet 1st Place Overall Team, 1st Place SQ Relay (44/45 - new state record?), 2nd Place SQ Overall Team.
Individuals of note: Jonathan Xu, Steven Wan, and Sirus Jesudasen completed the clean sweep at the State Meet, finishing as 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in the Honors Division. Matt Bernhard finished as the Fifth Highest Scoring Scholastic. Kyle Mock finished as the Fourth Highest Scoring Varsity.
2011
Team Members: Sirus Jesudasen (12th), Catherine Tran (12th), Jonathan Xu (11th), Matt Bernhard (12th), Iana Ivanova (12th), Victoria Tejeda (12th), Mario Gutierrez (12th), Elizabeth Liberman (12th), Cesar Ortega (12th).
Region VII LS Meet 1st Place Overall Team, 3rd Place SQ Relay (33/45).
State LS Meet 2nd Place Large School Team.
Individuals of note: Jonathan Xu, finished 1st in the honors division, breaking 9,000 and beating the next closest competitor by nearly 200 points. Matt Bernhard and Iana Ivanova finished 1st and 2nd in the Scholastic Division, respectively.
2012
Team Members: Jonathan Xu (12th), Shannon Cheng (12th), Pearl Xin (11th), Nathan Agnew (12th), Oliver Yin (12th), Kevin Walker (12th), Kyle Logan (11th), Albert Ok (11th), Gerry Verneuil (12th).
Region VII LS Meet 1st Place Overall Team.
State LS Meet 4th Place Large School Team.
2013
Team Members: Pearl Xin (12th), Lisa Liu (12th), Michael Tian (10th), Sara Gutierrez (12th), Nickson Chong (11th), Elizabeth Lopez (12th), Kyle Logan (12th), Grayson Lee (12th), Albert Ok (12th).
Region VII LS Meet 1st Place Overall Team.
State LS Meet 7th Place Large School Team.
2014
Team Members: Michael Tian (11th), David Shu (11th), Laura Hu (11th), Stephanie Cham (11th), Nickson Chong (12th), Vinuthna Garidipuri (10th), Noa Farou (11th), Junho Doo (12th), Sun Lee (11th).
Region VII LS Meet 2nd Place Overall Team.
State Meet 10th Place Large School Team.
2015
Team Members: David Shu (12th), Jessica Shu (10th), Sachal Dhillon (12th), Michael Tian (12th), Michael Pan (12th), Princewill Imouokhome (12th), Wrik Chakrabarti (11th), Shreetika Singh (11th), Taylor Swope (12th).
Region VII LS Meet 4th Place Overall Team, 2nd Place SQ Relay.
State Meet 12th Place Large School Team.
2016
Team Members: Jessica Shu (11th), Moniish Elanchezhian (11th), Madyson Bradford (11th), Shoumik Dabir (11th), Eshan Gaitonde (10th), Jay Deo (12th), Wrik Chakrabarti (12th), Cyrus Davies (11th), Ramadharsh Vanchinathan (11th).
Region VII LS Meet 2nd Place Overall Team.
State LS Meet 7th Place Large School Team, 3rd Place SQ Relay.
Individuals of note: Wrik Chakrabarti finished with a strong 8,865.4, making him the highest scoring varsity in Seven Lakes' history. Cyrus Davies scored 7,280.7, making him the third highest scoring varsity in Seven Lakes' history. Wrik then went on to qualify for the Individual National Competition in Anchorage, Alaska and solidified his lead by scoring the highest at the meet for the varsity division with 9,067.7 points, breaking school, state, and national records!
2017
Team Members: Jessica Shu (12th), Moniish Elanchezhian (12th), Dylan Allen (11th), Shoumik Dabir (12th), Eshan Gaitonde (11th), Jacob Stokes (12th), Cyrus Davies (12th), Ramadharsh Vanchinathan (12th), Omar Haibe (11th).
Region VII LS Meet 3rd Place Overall Team.
State LS Meet 11th Place Large School Team.
2018
Team Members: Eshan Gaitonde (12th), Reina Hingoranee (12th), Alekya Vejendla (11th), Sri Varanasi (12th), Dylan Allen (12th), Emily Burns (11th), Joyee Chakrabarti (11th), Joy Williams (12th), Omar Haibe (12th).
Region VII LS Meet 3rd Place Overall Team, 2nd Place SQ Relay.
State LS Meet 2nd Place Large School Team, 2nd Place SQ Relay.
Individuals of note: Joyee Chakrabarti finished with a very strong score of 8,160.7 putting her in 4th place for the large school meet. Eshan Gaitonde finished with a score of 9,046.2, making him only the 4th student in SLHS history to break the 9,000 point mark.
2019
Team Members: Shaunak Dabir (11th), Cristina Pontaza (11th), Anagha Kenikar (10th), Patrick Schumacher (12th), Katelyn Luong (12th), Emily Burns (12th), Joyee Chakrabarti (12th), Allen Cui (12th), Jonathan Nguyen (11th).
Region VII LS Meet 2nd Place Overall Team.
State LS Meet 6th Place Overall Team.
2020
Team Members: Anagha Kenikar (11th), Samitha Nemirajaiah (10th), Cristina Pontaza (12th), Kaleb Christensen (12th), Shaunak Dabir (12th), Uma Sarkar (12th), William Lewis (10th), Ria Patel (11th), Kathiresan Sivakumar (10th).
Region VII LS Meet 5th Place Overall Team.
State LS Meet 14th Place Overall Team.
2021
Team Members: Anagha Kenikar (12th), Dinesh Elanchezhian (11th), Tania Swani (12th), Roberto Del Callejo Lopez (11th), Michael Zhang (12th), Isha Chinoy (12th), Charlie Walsh (12th), Vishwam Rathod (11th), Jack Zhang (12th).
Region VII LS Meet N/A
State LS Meet 10th Place Overall Team.
2022
Team Members: Dinesh Elanchezhian (12th), Bryant Li (11th), Swati Misra (11th), Roberto Del Callejo Lopez (12th), Smrithika Ammanur (11th), Surada Suwansathit (11th), Anuska Mishra (12th), Arnav Wattamwar (10th).
Region VII LS Meet 4th Place Overall Team.
State LS Meet 16th Place Overall Team.
2023
Team Members: Bryant Li (12th), Carolina Kusumanegara (10th), Swati Misra (12th), Smrithika Ammanur (12th), Surada Suwansathit (12th), Yiqiao Huang (11th), Arnav Wattamwar (10th), Zhiyuan Li (10th).
Region VII LS Meet 10th Place Overall Team.
State LS Meet 21st Place Overall Team.
Coaches Information
Coaches
John Mitchell is the coach of the Spartans. Mitchell teaches Geography, AP US History, and Sociology for Seven Lakes High School and the Katy Virtual School.
Final State Rankings
TAD Medium School
| Year | Rank | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 19 | 32,583 |
| 2007 | 6 | 40,153 |
| 2008 | 1 | 47,941 |
TAD Large School
All Time High Scores
Team: 50,169.3 (2018 LS State Meet)
Honors: Jonathan Xu - 9,211 (2012 Regional Meet)
Scholastic: Matt Bernhard - 8,917.1 (2011 LS State Meet)
Varsity: Wrik Chakrabarti - 9,067.7 (2016 Individual National Meet)
Top State Scores
Updated as of 2023.
Overall Individual Scores
| Year | Rank | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 3 | 45,741 |
| 2010 | 1 | 47,974 |
| 2011 | 2 | 48,862.4 |
| 2012 | 4 | 44,643.9 |
| 2013 | 7 | 43,188.7 |
| 2014 | 10 | 42,771.3 |
| 2015 | 12 | 44,266 |
| 2016 | 7 | 47,862.1 |
| 2017 | 11 | 45,131 |
| 2018 | 2 | 50,169.3 |
| 2019 | 6 | 47,955.4 |
| 2020 | 14 | 44,508.4 |
| 2021 | 10 | 43,264.7 |
| 2022 | 16 | 39,851.6 |
| 2023 | 16 | 38,966.4 |
| Place | Student | Year | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jonathan Xu | 2011 | 9,181.6 |
| 2 | Eshan Gaitonde | 2018 | 9,046.2 |
| 3 | Steven Tu | 2008 | 9,014.4 |
| 4 | Pearl Xin | 2012 | 8,985.1 |
| 5 | Jonathan Xu | 2010 | 8,965.9 |
| 6 | Jonathan Xu | 2012 | 8,905.9 |
| 7 | Steven Wan | 2010 | 8,868.3 |
| 8 | Bryant Li | 2023 | 8,857.9 |
| 9 | Sirus Jesudasen | 2010 | 8,843.3 |
| 10 | Alekya Vejendla | 2018 | 8,737.1 |
| 11 | Erin Flattery | 2009 | 8,668.6 |
| Place | Student | Year | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matt Bernhard | 2011 | 8,917.1 |
| 2 | Dylan Allen | 2018 | 8,631.0 |
| 3 | Toni Alimi | 2009 | 8,563.3 |
| 4 | Iana Ivanova | 2011 | 8,557.4 |
| 5 | Toni Alimi | 2008 | 8,380.0 |
| 6 | Patrick Schumacher | 2019 | 8,266.0 |
| 7 | Michael Tian | 2015 | 8,182.1 |
| 8 | Eshan Gaitonde | 2016 | 8,135.7 |
| 9 | John Werner | 2008 | 8,050.4 |
| 10 | Sri Varanasi | 2018 | 8,047.7 |
| Place | Student | Year | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wrik Chakrabarti | 2016 | 8,865.4 |
| 2 | Joyee Chakrabarti | 2018 | 8,160.7 |
| 3 | Joyee Chakrabarti | 2019 | 7,725.0 |
| 4 | Allen Cui | 2019 | 7,703.6 |
| 5 | Joy Williams | 2018 | 7,546.6 |
| 6 | Pulkit Moudgil | 2008 | 7,303.0 |
| 7 | Cyrus Davies | 2016 | 7,280.7 |
| 8 | Wrik Chakrabarti | 2015 | 7,251.1 |
| 9 | Ramadharsh Vanchinathan | 2017 | 7,210.9 |
| 10 | Kyle Mock | 2010 | 7,171.4 |
