VALLEY'S WINNERS WOODLAND HILLS ROTARY HONORS TAFT DECATHLON TEAM.Byline: MINERVA A. HERNANDEZ Special to the Valley News The Woodland Hills Rotary Club recently honored the Academic Decathlon decathlon (dĭkăth`lŏn), in modern Olympic games, a contest for men held over two days and composed of 10 track-and-field events. team from Taft High School, which won the national Academic Decathlon championships, scoring 51,659 points out of a possible 60,000. Team members won 43 medals and seven of the top nine awards. Team members were Michael Farrell For the Australian cricketer, see . For the American screen actor, see . Michael Farrell (born 1944) is an Irish civil rights activist and former leader of People's Democracy. , Atish Sawant, Zac Ellington, Farhan Khan Farhan Khan (born October 19, 1975 in Multan) is an Pakistan-born Omani cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-fast bowler. He has made several appearances as a batsman in the 2005 ICC Trophy. , David Lopez, David Novgorodsky, Julia Rebrova, Dean Schaffer and Monica Schettler. Team coach Arthur Berchin, chairman of Taft's English department Noun 1. English department - the academic department responsible for teaching English and American literature department of English academic department - a division of a school that is responsible for a given subject , is also a faculty member at Santa Monica College Santa Monica College was first opened in 1929 as Santa Monica Junior College. Current enrollment is 32,000 students in more than 90 fields of study. The college also has one of the largest international student populations of any community college in the US, with approximately . He coached Taft's previous winning teams. After retiring from Academic Decathlon coaching in 1994 and taking a decade-long hiatus hiatus /hi·a·tus/ (hi-a´tus) [L.] an opening, gap, or cleft.hia´tal aortic hiatus the opening in the diaphragm through which the aorta and thoracic duct pass. from competition, Berchin returned to coaching four years ago. Since his return, the Taft Academic Decathlon team has won the L.A. district championship in three of the past four years. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Members of the Taft High School Academic Decathlon team are honored by the Woodland Hills Rotary Club. Front row, from left, are Zac Ellington, Atish Sawant, David Lopez, Monica Schettler, coach Arthur Berchin, Julia Rebrova and school principal Sharon Thomas; back row, from left, longtime Woodland Hills Rotary Club member Marlow Mogul, students Farhan Khan, Michael Farrell, Dean Schaffer, David Novgorodsky and Cliff Ker, Taft's coordinator of the Academic Decathlon. Minerva A. Hernandez/Special to the Valley News |
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