MONMOUTH — The Monmouth Academy Academic Decathlon Team, coached by Cathy and Scott Foyt, recently competed in the 2014 United States Academic Decathlon, Small School National Online Competition. Monmouth finished this tournament in seventh place in the United States.

The following Monmouth students won national medals: Marinna Smith in art and Angus Koller in math and science.

Other Monmouth students who competed in the National competition were: Emily Barnett, Sabrina Beck, Sherman Spears and Jordyn Mann.

In March, the Monmouth Academy Academic Decathlon Team competed in the State of Maine Academic Decathlon Championship at Deering High School and won the State of Maine Small School Championship.

The following Monmouth students participated this year in the state championship and/or won medals. Alternate team members: Madi Neal; Samantha Blundon; Brett Jamison (bronze medal, economics); Matt Brooks (gold medal, language/literature); Shannon Buzzell (gold medal, art); Amelia Freeman (bronze medal, music and bronze medal, art); Sami Grandahl (bronze medal, music and silver medal, essay); Kim Lewis (bronze medal, language/literature; bronze medal, essay; and bronze medal, science); and Kiya Caron (bronze medal, art; silver medal, music; and silver medal, economics).

Competition team members: Emily Barnett; Becki Bryant; Sabrina Beck (bronze medal, essay); Sherman Spears (gold medal, interview); Jordyn Mann (gold medal, essay); Corey Tatarka (bronze medal, art; silver medal, music; and silver medal, speech); Angus Koller (bronze medal, social science; silver medal, language/literature; and gold medal, essay); Marinna Smith (bronze medal, language/literature; bronze medal, music; bronze medal, science; silver medal, social science; silver medal, art; silver medal, economics; and third-highest scorer in the State of Maine Scholastic Division); and Sarah Record (bronze medal, language/literature; bronze medal, economics; bronze medal, essay; silver medal, music; silver medal, social science; silver medal, art; gold medal, interview; gold medal, speech; highest team scorer and highest scorer in the State of Maine Varsity Division).

In the past 16 years, the Monmouth Academy Decathlon Team has been the state champions, the small school state champions or the state runner-up team. Four times in the last 14 years, the Monmouth Team has represented the state in the National Academic Decathlon Championships, earning the following ranks: fifth place at California in 1999; sixth place at Arizona in 2002; fifth place at Idaho in 2004; and eighth place at Minnesota in 2013.

Academic Decathlon is comprised of A, B and C students who study together as a team for a year and then compete in 10 different decathlon categories: art, economics, essay, interview, language/literature, mathematics, music, science, social science and speech. The super quiz, which covers all ten categories, changes yearly — for example, last year’s topic was “Russia,” this year’s topic is “World War I” and next year’s topic will be “Innovations in Alternative Energy.”