Twelve Isle of Wight Academy students won medals at the annual Association of Virginia Academies Forensics Meet on March 18 at Southampton Academy.

In the novice division, IWA won seven out of a possible 37 medals. As a result, the school won third place in both the novice and varsity divisions in the sweepstakes competition among the six participating independent schools.

Winners from IWA were as follows:

Novice Division

• After-Dinner Speech: First place, Sarah Wait
• Serious oral interpretation: First place, Jana Nelhuebel; third place, Emily Wilda
• Storytelling: Third place, Jaxson Hooper
• Dual oral interpretation: Second place, Mackenzie Wooten and Sydney Grimes
• Serious poetry: Second place, Betsy Pollard

Varsity Division

• Serious oral interpretation: Second place, Meredith Webb
• Dual oral interpretation: Third place, Hayley Stallings and Anna Wait
• Humorous prose: First place, Alex Simmons
• Sight reading: First place, Peyton Baylous