McAuley High School was the top all-girls high school in the state at the Ohio Junior Classical League State Convention.

The team finished sixth academically and ninth overall out of 40 schools and over 1,000 students.

There were four competitions in Latin at the convention: academic tests, creative and artistic awards, club awards and Certamen (Latin academic team) awards.

Freshman Megan Whitacre, captain of the Latin I Certamen team, has been invited to a summer camp for the Ohio National Certamen Team. If she does well at the camp, she could earn a spot on the all-Ohio team, which will compete at the National Junior Classical League Convention this summer at the University of Tennessee.

The Latin students were prepared for the competition and accompanied by McAuley Latin teacher Rachel Ritchie.

In the academic tests, the following students won ribbons:

[see the original article ... it's a pretty long list]