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Donald Crowhurst: The fake round-the-world sailing story behind The Mercy

The mysterious and tragic disappearance of the single-handed sailor Donald Crowhurst more than 50 years ago continues to fascinate. Nic Compton explains why…

Hailed as a round the world single-handed hero, Donald Crowhurst in fact never left the Atlantic during his 243 days at sea. Photo: Alamy

It was while I was researching my book about madness at sea in 2015 that I first heard a movie about Donald Crowhurst was in the works. Several websites published reports of a high-profile British feature starring Colin Firth and Rachel Weisz, and a few surreptitious photos of the cast filming off Teignmouth had been posted online. It seemed a lucky coincidence, given that my book would inevitably feature the Crowhurst story, but I assumed the movie would come out long before my book was ready.

Over the next couple of years, however, the release date for the film was repeatedly postponed – so much so that it became a running topic among Hollywood gossipmongers, who speculated that Crowhurst’s widow Clare had delayed progress, or that it was being held back to tie with the 50th anniversary of the events, or indeed that it might never be released in cinemas and go straight to DVD instead.

Meanwhile, I carried on writing my book, Off the Deep End, which was published in 2017, and the movie, The Mercy, was released in February 2018. There was never any doubt the tragic story of Donald Crowhurst would have to be included in any book about madness at sea.

Colin Firth stars as Donald Crowhurst in the 2018 film The Mercy. Photo: Studio Canal

Of all the stories I researched, it’s the one that has caught the public imagination most. Long before the latest Hollywood offering it inspired movies, books, plays, art installations, an epic poem and even an opera. Whereas many stories of adventures at sea seem to leave the general public cold, the Crowhurst tale continues to fascinate more than 50 years after Teignmouth’s most famous sailor vanished without trace. And yet, despite the thousands of words written about him, we really know very little more about him than we did 50 years ago.

It all started when Francis Chichester made his historic single-handed circumnavigation in 1966-67 – not the first to do so, by any means, but certainly the fastest up to that point, completing the loop in 226 days with just one stop, in Sydney, to repair his self-steering. Even before he’d docked at Plymouth there was a general realisation, which spread like osmosis throughout the sailing world, that the next step would be to sail around solo without stopping.

The challenge was turned into a contest by the Sunday Times which, in March 1968, announced two prizes: a Golden Globe trophy for the first person to sail round the world via the Three Capes single-handed and non-stop, and a £5,000 cash prize for the person to do it in the fastest time. The only stipulation was that competitors had to leave from a British port between 1 June and 31 October 1968, and had to return to the same place.

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Nine skippers eventually signed up for the race: the famous transatlantic rowing duo Chay Blyth and John Ridgway, who had by then fallen out but were sailing near-identical 30ft glassfibre production boats; Bernard Moitessier, already something of a legend in France for breaking the long-distance sailing record on his steel ketch Joshua; Moitessier’s friend Loïc Fougeron; Robin Knox-Johnston, an unknown British merchant navy officer sailing a heavy wooden boat called Suhaili; two former British naval officers, Bill King and Nigel Tetley; the experienced Italian single-handed sailor Alex Carozzo; and Donald Crowhurst.

Out of the group, Crowhurst was by far the least experienced, the odd one out. Born in India in 1932, he went to Loughborough College after the war, until family nances and the death of his father forced him to cut his education short. He joined the RAF in 1948 but was chucked out after six years because of some high jinks with a vehicle; the same thing happened when he joined the army and he was forced to resign after he was caught trying to hotwire a car during a drunken escapade.

Persuasive character

Crowhurst with his wife Clare and their children Rachel, Simon, Roger and James, circa October 1968. Photo: Getty Images

Next he got as job as a travelling salesman for an electrics company, but was again dismissed after crashing the company car.

Ever-persuasive, he talked himself into a job as chief design engineer for an electronics company in Somerset, and in 1962 set up his own company, Electron Utilisation, to manufacture electronic devices for yachts.

The company got off to a good start, selling a simple but well-designed radio direction finder which Crowhurst dubbed the Navicator. Pye Radio invested £8,500 in the project, before getting cold feet and pulling out.

It quickly became clear that while Crowhurst was a charismatic personality and brilliant innovator he didn’t have the business acumen to run a successful company, and Electron Utilisation was soon in financial trouble.

Crowhurst managed to persuade local businessman Stanley Best to invest £1,000 to carry the company over what he assured him was a temporary lean period.

It must have been obvious to Crowhurst that he was heading for another failure. By now 35 years old, he could see the same pattern repeating itself, of high ambition thwarted by petty practicalities. Only, by now married to Clare with four children and living in a comfortable house outside Bridgwater in Somerset, the stakes were higher than ever.

His response to failure was to reinvent himself yet again. This time he would become a record-breaking sailor, a seafaring hero in the vein of Chichester: he would sail around the world single-handed – even though he had until then only dabbled in sailing, mainly on board a 20ft sloop called Pot of Gold. First, however, he needed a boat.

After failing to persuade the Cutty Sark Committee to lend him Gipsy Moth IV for the voyage, he decided a trimaran would be the ideal craft – despite having never sailed on one. To get the funding to build his dream boat he achieved perhaps the greatest coup of his life.

With Electron Utilisation going down the pan, his backer Stanley Best wanted his loan repaid, but Crowhurst managed to persuade him the best way to get his money back would be to fund the construction of the new boat.

A replica of the 41ft Teignmouth Electron used in the filming of The Mercy. Photo: WENN Ltd/Alamy

The crux of his argument was that he would use the trimaran as a test bed for his new inventions, and the publicity gained from entering the race would catapult the company to success. The sting in the tail was that the loan was guaranteed by Electron Utilisation, which meant that, if the venture failed, the company would go bankrupt.

To understand how he managed this turnaround you have to go back in time. Photos of Crowhurst make him look geekish and uncool to the modern eye. With his sticky-out ears, high forehead, curly hair, tie and V-neck jumper, he appears the epitome of the eccentric inventor.

But all the contemporary accounts describe him as a charismatic, vibrant personality, the sort of person who lights up a room when they walk in – as well as being extremely clever. In fact, his cleverness was his problem. He had the gift of the gab and, once persuaded of something, could talk anyone into believing him.

“This is important,” said his wife Clare. “Donald had this definite talent. He would say the most amazing things, but then no matter how crazy they seemed, he’d be clever and ingenious enough to make them come true. Always. This is a most important point about his character.”

Crowhurst’s widow, Clare, holds the last photograph taken of Donald with his family. Photo: Guy Newman / Alamy

Slow off the mark

So Crowhurst got the money for Teignmouth Electron, which was built by Cox Marine in Essex and fitted out by JL Eastwood in Norfolk. It’s a measure of how far behind he was that by the time the Cox yard started building the hulls towards the end of June, Ridgway, Blyth and Knox-Johnston had already set off on their round-the-world attempts. In the event, complications meant the launch date was delayed and even when Crowhurst finally set off on 31 October – just a few hours before the Sunday Times deadline expired – his boat was barely complete.

None of the clever inventions he had devised for the boat were connected, including the all-important buoyancy bag at the top of the mast, which was supposed to inflate if the trimaran capsized. His revolutionary ‘computer’, which was supposed to monitor the performance of the boat and set off various safety devices, was no more than a bunch of unconnected wires.

Worse still, he had had to borrow yet more money from Best to finish the boat, and had mortgaged his home to guarantee the loan. Crowhurst made a desultory figure scrambling about the deck of his trimaran as he set off on his great adventure – only to turn around within a few minutes to untangle his jib and staysail halyards, which were snagged at the top of the mast.

It was just the start of his troubles. After two days at sea, while still within sight of Cornwall, the screws started falling off his self-steering and, not having any spares on board, he had to cannibalise other parts of the machine to replace them.

A leaky boat

A few days later, halfway across the Bay of Biscay, he discovered the forward compartment of one of the hulls had filled up with water from a leaking hatch.

Soon, other compartments began to leak and, as he’d been unable to get the correct piping for the bilge pumps, his only option was to bail them out with a bucket. Then, two weeks after leaving Teignmouth, his generator broke down after being soaked with water from another leaking hatch.

“This bloody boat is just falling to pieces due to lack of attention to engineering detail!!!” he wrote in his log. A few days later he made a long list of jobs that needed doing and concluded his chances of survival if he carried on were at best 50/50. He began to think about abandoning the race.

But Crowhurst was in a triple bind. If he dropped out at this stage, not only would his reputation be destroyed but his business would go bankrupt and, perhaps worse of all, he and his family would lose their home. For all these reasons, giving up was not an option.

It soon became clear his estimates for the boat’s speed had been wildly optimistic: he had estimated an average of 220 miles per day, whereas the reality was about half that, on a good day. There was no way he was going to catch up with the other competitors or win either of the prizes, unless something extraordinary happened.

And so, just five weeks after setting off from Teignmouth, Crowhurst started one of the most audacious frauds in sailing history: he began falsifying his position. From 5 December, he created a fake log book, with accurately plotted sun sights, working back from imaginary positions.

To make it look convincing, he listened to forecasts for the relevant areas and wrote a fictional commentary as if he was experiencing those conditions. It was quite a feat of seamanship, and only someone of Crowhurst’s brilliance could have carried it off convincingly.

The great deception

After a few days’ practice he felt sufficiently confident to send his first ‘fake’ press release, claiming he’d sailed 243 miles in 24 hours, a new world record for a single-handed sailor. In fact, he’d actually sailed 160 miles, a personal best perhaps, but certainly no world record.

And so the great deception began. As Crowhurst slowly worked his way down the Atlantic, his imaginary avatar was already rounding the Cape of Good Hope and heading into the Indian Ocean. Gradually, partly through misunderstandings and partly due to the spin added by his agent back in the UK, Crowhurst’s positions became ever more exaggerated, until it looked like he might win the race after all.

Meanwhile, the real Crowhurst was pottering around the Atlantic – ‘hiding’ in exactly the same area he had, only a few weeks earlier, jokingly suggested a sailor might hide to falsify a round-the-world voyage. To make sure his radio signals weren’t picked up by the wrong land stations, he maintained radio silence for nearly three months, from the middle of January until the beginning of April, which he blamed on his generator breaking down again.

Teignmouth Electron was found drifting in mid-Atlantic, 700 miles west of the Azores, on 10 July 1969

Unbelievably, he even put ashore in a remote bay near Buenos Aires in Argentina to buy materials to repair one of the hulls, which had started to fall apart. Despite being greeted and logged by local officials, this rule-breaking stop remained undetected.

On 29 March he reached his most southerly point, hovering a few miles off the Falklands, 8,000 miles from home, before starting his ascent up the Atlantic.

Finally, on 9 April, he broke radio silence and exploded back into the race with a telegram containing the infamous line: “HEADING DIGGER RAMREZ” – suggesting he was approaching Diego Ramirez, a small island southwest of Cape Horn (in reality, he was just off Buenos Aires).

By this time Moitessier had had his ‘moment of madness’ and had dropped out of the race and was sailing to Tahiti ‘to save his soul’. The only other competitors left were Knox-Johnston, who was plodding slowly up the Atlantic and on track to be the first one home, and Tetley, racing in his wake to pick up the prize for the fastest voyage.

Rachel Weisz plays Clare Crowhurst in The Mercy

It seems likely that Crowhurst was planning to finish a close second to Tetley, which would save him from financial ruin without drawing too much attention to his fraudulent log books.

But his reappearance in the race had a dramatic effect on the course of events. Already nursing a broken boat up the homeward leg of the Atlantic, Tetley worried he might lose the speed record to the resurgent Crowhurst, and started pushing his trimaran faster towards the finish line. Some 1,100 miles from home, the inevitable happened: Tetley’s boat broke up and sank, and he had to be rescued by a passing ship.

Suddenly, the spotlight shifted to Crowhurst, the unlikely amateur who’d apparently come out of nowhere to beat the professionals. The BBC had a crew on standby to record his homecoming and hundreds of thousands of people were expected to throng the seafront at Teignmouth to welcome him home.

It was everything Crowhurst dreaded. As one of the winners, his books would come under much closer scrutiny – and indeed there were already some, including race chairman Francis Chichester, who suspected something wasn’t quite right.

In the middle of June, Crowhurst reached the Sargasso Sea and, as the tradewinds died and his boat slowed down, he descended into a mental quagmire of his own. It was as if all his previous failures had caught up with him in this one grand, final failure.

Teignmouth Electron on Cayman Brac in 1991. The wreck has deteriorated considerably since. Photo: Geophotos / Alamy

And this time there was no way out, no way of reinventing himself. Instead, he gave up ‘sailorising’ and resorted to philosophising instead. Over the course of a week, he wrote a 25,000-word manifesto that described how mankind had achieved such an advanced evolutionary state that it could now merge with the cosmos. All that was needed was ‘an effort of free will’.

He ended his journal on 1 July with this desperate appeal: ‘I will only resign this game / if you agree that / the next occasion that this / game is played / it will be played / according to the / rules that are devised by / my great god who has / revealed at last to his son / not only the exact nature / of the reason for games but / has also revealed the truth of / the way of the ending of the / next game that / It is finished / It is finished / IT IS THE MERCY’

There then followed a countdown, ending at 11:20:40 precisely. It’s not known what happened next, but it’s generally assumed Crowhurst jumped over the side of the boat to his death. His empty yacht was found by a passing ship on 10 July with two sets of log books on board: the real and the fake.

It was left to Sunday Times journalists Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall to piece together what had happened and to reveal to the world Crowhurst’s elaborate hoax. With Crowhurst and Tetley both out of the race, Knox-Johnston, on his slow wooden tortoise of a boat, was the only person to finish the race and was duly award both prizes – though he subsequently donated the £5,000 cash prize to Crowhurst’s widow.

Huge public interest

The Golden Globe race generated enormous public interest at the time, and the discovery of Crowhurst’s boat was front page news. It’s a fascination that has continued almost unabated to this day. The French film Les Quarantièmes Rugissants, based on the Crowhurst story, was released in 1982, while at least five plays have picked up the theme, as well as the 1998 opera Ravenshead.

There have been several books published about Crowhurst and the race more generally, although none of them add anything substantial to the story told by Tomalin and Hall in their 1970 book The Strange Story of Donald Crowhurst.

In 2006, the acclaimed documentary Deep Water incorporated contemporary footage of the race, including some shot by Crowhurst during his voyage, and in 2017 director Simon Rumley released his own stylised take on the story, called simply Crowhurst.

The Mercy, then, is only the latest take on the Crowhurst saga – although with Colin Firth and Rachel Weisz on board, it is the most high-profile. So how does it compare to previous efforts?

As you’d expect of such a mainstream movie, the focus is firmly on the psychological drama rather than on the sailing – which is probably just as well considering how often films get the details of sailing wrong. There are some minor errors – Chichester wasn’t the first person to sail around the world single-handed, and the prize for the first competitor to finish the race was a trophy, not £5,000 – but the sailing scenes are generally quite convincing.

More importantly though, The Mercy is a captivating psychological drama, which shows how, through a series of small steps, a person can box themselves into a corner from which there is no escape. It’s this humbling of a deluded but essentially well-meaning man that gives the story such resonance and has inspired artists and writers for more than five decades. For, as anyone who has sailed out of sight of land knows, the sea has a knack of bringing out our inner demons. There is a Crowhurst in us all.

First published in the March 2018 edition of Yachting World.

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[Tour] Heartwood by Nance Newman

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INTERVIEW: Katie Von Schleicher.

Fresh off the back of a UK tour alongside Aldous Harding, Katie Von Schleicher recently premiered her latest single, 'Sell It Back' which is taken from her self-produced and co-engineered debut full-length album, Shitty Hits, out July 28 via Full Time Hobby, where Von Schleicher confronts feelings of isolation and powerlessness. She is not tackling grandiosity, but mediocrity; the struggle of being deeply flawed and unmistakably human.

Katie Von Schleicher’s previous release Bleaksploitation was an accident, years in the making. While interning at Ba Da Bing Records, owner Ben Goldberg suggested that she record a cassette for the label to release. It could be anything, demos or a live performance, but she took it a bit more seriously than Goldberg intended. The result was her first self-produced and engineered effort, a strange, hazy, pop-laden tape. Doing her own press under a pseudonym and referring to it as an “album,” Von Schleicher garnered enough attention for Bleaksploitation to see it released on vinyl in the Spring of 2016.

Now on her full-length official debut release, Von Schleicher strikes again on the magic that comes from her warped and uncompromising sound. Shitty Hits channels the bright, sunny radio burners of the 1970’s - songs you drive to, carefree, and songs you can cry to.

We were lucky enough to have a chat with Katie about Shitty Hits, touring, who she would love to collaborate with and more. Check the interview out below.

So far we've heard the brilliant songs 'Life's A Lie', 'Paranoia' and 'Sell It Back' from your upcoming official debut LP Shitty Hits. Like your previous "accidental" release Bleaksploitation, Shitty Hits was home recorded but in what ways does it differ from Bleaksploitation? How do you think you have grown as an artist thus far?

"Shitty Hits comes from the same impetus as Bleaksploitation and is meant to lodge deeply somewhere in the region of one’s chest. Maybe you could call it ‘finding my voice,’ but it’s the idea of taking what I love, music that already exists, and trying to locate a gap, what’s missing for me, and fill it. I’m obsessed with deeply melodic and transportational music: Randy Newman, Elliott Smith, Carole King, The Beatles, Kate Bush, Arthur Russell, and a ton of lesser known pillars. So I always begin with that in mind. But production wise, I’m aiming for those songs to be presented with a deeply resonating and heavy, unapologetic dose of atmosphere and feeling. Basic, essential rhythms, but unplaceable, distorted. It’s hard to put into words! Thematically, Shitty Hits ventures inward whereas Bleaksploitation was less personal and intimate. And I felt far more ambitious in its sonic scope and fidelity. Bleak was done to a four-track tape recorder, and its possibilities were finite. It was a way to get my foot in the door. Shitty Hits has 40 tracks on a song, it was an open-ended challenge to myself."

Is there a particular reason why you've decided to tape-record your music and do you think this will always be your method of choice?

"I think it will continue as an element, at least. With this record we began with 8 tracks on each song to cassette tape, then transferred to digital. It’s not necessary, but I love putting drums and bass to tape. I’m prone to ritualizing this process, which can be so difficult to approach at its inception. The psychological importance of tape is that it adds an immediacy to each performance. Tape or not, I believe in doing a whole performance of a song vocally and instrumentally, rather than patching myself in on the second verse or something. Maybe that’s just for me, but I like it."

Shitty HIts is about you confronting feelings of isolation and powerlessness. Where did these feelings stem from and how important was it for you to be able to express these emotions through music?

"They come from observations I’ve made about myself and how I experience the world. When I get down, it feels like a loss of perspective. I’m fighting to have a sense of self again, which is also mirrored in the process of making a record, the self-doubt it incurs. It feels perverse to discuss depression sometimes, and of course it has its place, but it felt fairly important to bring it up in the music, if anywhere. These are the feelings I had while making the record, the feelings I had about making it. I was also thinking about the legacy of popular song, how there are so many brilliant tunes about heartbreak and pain, but rarely about its less poetic minutiae. So I tried to write songs in major keys, exuberant ones, but infuse them with the small details of feeling, a happy perversion."

The LP was produced and co-engineered by yourself. How important is it to you to have complete control over your music? What was your favourite part recording the album?

"It’s important to have control in what still feels like this gestation period I’m in. I’m new to this. Hopefully someday I’ll have more confidence to assert myself in company because I would love to collaborate more. My favorite parts are always the happy accidents. If I’m alone those happen more easily because I forget my body as well as the rules of being social in a group environment. The recording process heavily shaped the outcome of a song like 'Midsummer,' because I took a strange guitar solo and then impulsively, during a take, sang over that guitar solo, sang a new part to the song. And it meant that leaving the first chorus the song takes off into a new intensity I hadn’t planned. The song 'Soon' was the most bang-our-heads-against-the-wall experience, we were lost on how to present it. I’m not even sure how this happened, but during basics we made the song a bit long, with extra sections. When I was finishing the record alone, I decided to have this melodic saxophone part that makes up the whole second half of the song. It was just a part I sang over it during a take. The moments I can’t even remember that yielded positive results are why I do it."

What has been your biggest challenge as an independent artist and how did you overcome that challenge? What advice might you have for other artist's out there that aim to have complete creative control over their musical output?

"The biggest obstacle has been my bias toward myself. I didn’t know what most pedals did, I didn’t feel like I could master these things that men around me had mastered at age 14, I felt stupid asking questions like “what is compression?” I didn’t listen to cool music in high school, I only got into what now moves me most deeply in college, so I felt like I was too late to the party, or that if I hadn’t found the White Album at age ten, I wasn’t authentically allowed to take part in its legacy. I say my bias toward myself, because I don’t want to make this about gender roles that have been placed on me, since on most occasions they are not. But sometimes I witness guys playing together and I see a belonging that I never quite felt, like this is a destiny. I didn’t envision myself producing albums when I was a kid, I didn’t think “I want to be Brian Eno.” Anyway, my advice would be to forget imposed regulations and do whatever the fuck you want, the scarier the better, especially if you’re of a gender, orientation or race that wasn’t represented by The Band. It’s never too late to take the reins, and anyone can do it."

We think that is excellent advice! You've recently returned from a UK tour with brilliant Aldous Harding. What was that experience like?

"It was incredible. First of all I didn’t have to drive, there was a tour manager. I’ve never experienced that before, and let me tell you, it’s the lap of luxury. Aldous Harding is the most formidable musician I’ve ever opened for, and it presented quite a challenge in that respect. I fell in love with London."

London is a wonderful place! What is currently your favourite song to perform from the new album?

"My favorite songs to play now are 'Midsummer' and 'Nothing.'"

Are there any new artist's that you're listening to right now that you think we should check out? If you had the chance to collaborate with another artist/band who would it be and why?

"I’m sure you’ve checked them out already! Aldous Harding, Andy Shauf, Big Thief. My labelmates Cross Record, Tiny Hazard and David Nance blow me away, and don’t have as much visibility as the aforementioned folks. Right now I’d like to collaborate with Zannie Owens, whose band Really Big Pinecone is based here, and Nate Mendelsohn, who has a band called Market. I’d like to try and do some random side project. I’d also love to produce someone else’s album. As far as big famous folks, uh, Randy Newman. Let’s make a fuzzed out Randy Newman album."

Is there anything you like to do outside of music that contributes to your musicality? For example a hobby you turn to in order to rejuvenate your creativity?

"I do graphic design and terrible painting. Used to write a lot of poetry but haven’t lately. I read a bit. Mostly I just get angry about politics and produce nothing with effect on that front."

Finally, what has been the best part of your journey as an artist so far and what are you looking forward to in the future?

"I’m surprised by the journey. That might be the best part. I’m so happy I’ve matched my desire to write songs with a desire to turn them, recorded, into something else entirely. I look forward to collaboration, to the next record, and hopefully touring the hell out of this one."

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Spring 2017 Dean’s List announced

NATCHITOCHES – One thousand and fifty-one students were named to the Spring 2017 Dean’s List at Northwestern State University. Students on the list earned a grade point average of between 3.5 and 3.99. Those named to the Dean’s List by hometown are as follows.

APO – Rebecca Waters;

Abita Springs – Destiny Simon;

Albany – Joseph Joffrion, Hailey Pomes;

Alexandria – Ashley Ammons, Nicholas Bailey, Courtney Brown, Tonya Clark, Kimberly Colston, Dustin Cross, Christopher Das Neves, Josyf Das Neves, Claudia Gauthier, Amy Girtman, Monnie Guillory, Anna Hall, Bessie Hargrett, Jordan Johnson, Hannah Kenimer, Kristina Langley, ShaKiyla Lindsey, Jimmie Magee, Aaron Martin, Danielle McDowell, Julian Morgan, Kaycee Ouber, Madeline Pharis, Sha’Darius Plummer, Sadae Polk, Shacora Simpson, Tammethia Starks, Christina Thiels, Renee Cunnikin, Casey Holts;

Anacoco – Jacquelyn Bennett, Michael Chesher, Brittney Dittbrender, Kaylee Herrington, Victoria Jackson, Karington Johnson, Caitlin McKee, Shelby MceIveen, Jason Ortiz, Bret Phillips, Brooke Phillips, Jaclyn Smith, Samuel Turnipseed, Erica Wade, Brianna Walters, Emily Williams, Clarissa Williamson;

Annona, Texas – Candace Baird;

Arabi – Cursten Smith;

Arcadia – Margaret Myles;

Arlington, Texas – Samantha Bell;

Arnaudville – Jacob David;

Athens – Tyler Anderson;

Atlanta – Shannon Jones, Brianne Lashley, Leah Lashley;

Austin, Texas – Dylan Graves;

Baker – Nijah Lain;

Ball – Karen Holmes, Katie Wakefield;

Barksdale AFB – Elysia Lanier, Priscilla Molina;

Baton Rouge – Erin Berlin, Rosa Campbell, Peyton Clark, Carmeka Cooper, Marquise Foster, Madison Fry, Julian Guerrero Acevedo, Chloe Hidalgo, Rebecca Ladmirault, Bethany Lee, Stan Mays, Henrietta Mercer, Montariel Minor, Alexandra Piedrahita, Emma Rivet, Juila Soileau, Haley Sylvester, Savannah Thibodeaux;

Belcher – Sierra Laing;

Belle Chasse – Hayley Barbabzon, Nikki Lopez, Annie Wright;

Belmont – Ashley Hill, Mallory Simpson;

Ben Wheeler, Texas – Cheyenne Brown;

Bentley – Samuel Green, Lindzey Hayes;

Benton – Kelyn Bihm, Leah Digilormo, Sara Hale, Kara Knippers;

Blanco, Texas – Reagan Rogers;

Blue Ridge, Texas – Amber Bishop;

Bogalusa – Amanda Crawford;

Bordelonville – Taylor Arnouville;

Bossier City – Jael Ahmad, Jessica Alvarenga, Shannon Ansley, Bonny Bacoccini, Janeth Bird, Shelby Booth, Emilee Branch, Sheldon Busby, Elisa Ceballos, Jordan Chaffin, Emily Cheatham, Gina Copeland, Peyton Davis, Madison Edwards, Emily Fisher, Kelly Flores, Charles Gallaher, Devonte Hall, Jacob Hammons, Adrianne Hampton, Joshua Henry, Teaka Jacobs, Corina Jacobsen, Casey Johnson, Corey Johnson, Victoria Johnson, Haley Jorgensen, Alyssa Kidd, Alexandra Madrid, Samantha Maeitte, Rance Mason, Gina Masson, Sabri Parks, Michael Phelps, Megan Redmon, Jade Reich, Timothy Rice, Kassidy Robideaux, Georgenia Smith, Savannah Stevens, Joshua Straub, Jessica Sullivan, Angel Vakoff, Chandler Vascocu, Kimberly Ventura Gonzalez, Kristen Warke, Kiera White, Haneen Zeidan, Jordan Ginn, Katherine Parson Benjamin Johnson;

Bourg – Mia Adams;

Boyce – Hannah Aslin, Brooklynn Basco, Lauren Davidson, Stacey Gannaway, Timothy Glass, Sarah Hill, Sonya Hill, Ashley Smith;

Bradenton, Fla. – Alexandra Latham;

Broken Arrow, Okla. – Madeline Drake;

Brookeland, Texas – Morgan Horn, Paige West;

Broussard – Dylan Dunford;

Brownsboro, Texas – Brice Borgeson;

Brusly – Dominique Bennett;

Burleson – Eric Neeley;

Bush – Lane Clevenger;

Calhoun – Conn Mccandlish;

Calvin – Joseph Heyse, Erin Price;

Campti – Troy Coleman, Kelsey Coutee, Damarte Fisher, Allison Friday, Kortney Greer, Trenton Parker, Ronald Reliford, Jordan Rowell, Kimberly Sepulvado, Sade’ Thomas;

Carencro – Ashley Guidry, Jasmin Thibodeaux;

Carrollton, Texas – Victoria Miller;

Cartagena, Colombia – Nestor Mercado-Garcia, Ronald Rodriguez Herrera, Valentina Herazo Alvarez, Valeria Nieto Rodriguez, Luis Osoria Betancourt, Juan Paternina Paez, Veronica Perez Espinosa, Ramon Sarruf Monroy, Joan Santos Sierra;

Castor – Priscilla Harrell, Azita Rivers, Kaycee Collinsworth;

Cecilia – Margo Barstow;

Cedar Park, Texas – David Moritz;

Chalmette – Scarlett Saizan;

Chauvin – Xandria Petty;

Cheneyville – Katherine Davis, Shelbie Moriarty;

Choudrant – Taylor Holley;

Church Point – Carolyn Fontenot;

Colfax – Mikayla Richardson, Dalton Wade, Zachary Wade;

College Station, Texas – Jasmyn Steels;

Conroe, Texas – Sidney Salmans,

Converse – Shayna Brown, Delia Smith, Benjamin Wright;

Cottonport – Brikeysha Duskin, Zachary Gauthier;

Coushatta – Elizabeth Durr, Jason Gross, Jeremy Lawson, Williams Lee, Aaron Murray, Precious Smith, Jesseca Tomerlin, Mackenzie Williams, Caroline Wren, Lauren Young;

Covington – Tristan Bridges, Justin Brogdon, Ian Cassidy, Rachel Coyne, Erika Jarlock, Kayla Keys, Titus McCann, Cathleen Oviedo, Catherine Sadler;

Coyolilla Veracruz, Mexico – Guadalupe de Jesus Mendez Zaragoza;

Cut Off – Kaelyn Musgrave;

Cypress, Texas – Kaitlyn St. Clair;

Dallas – Amy Renteria, Gabrielle Stevens;

Denham Springs – Mackenzie Byrd, Joey Carroll, Caitlyn Cutrer, Chantal Dale, Tina Fisher, Kaylie Krepinevich, Lenni Kunert, Tyler O’Donoghue, Rachel Oufnac, Jenson Wall;

DeQuincy – Staci Maddox;

DeRidder – James Jones, Shynikia Roberson, Bobby Guichet, Sarah James, Jaclyn Moore, Mikalyn Russell, Airiunna Satchell, Jacob Prudhomme, Rebecca Richmond, Heather Sorton, Scott Stearns, Nathan Stinley;

Derry – Georgette Hassan;

Desoto, Texas – Joseph Blazio;

Destrehan – Jamie Boteler, Kristen Richmond;

Deville – Brianna Ashley. Joni Burlew, Savannah Carter, Hailey Dennard, Baylie Ducote, Colton Johnson, Morgan McCrory, Marcia Rogers, Hannah Siebeneicher, Miranda Wells;

Diana, Texas – Kayli Morvan;

Donaldsonville – Kayla Hernandez;

Dry Prong – Brandie Arnett, DeAnna Bartlett;

Dubberly – Phylicia Gatson;

Duson – Autumn Ritter;

Edmond, Okla. – Payton Hartwick, Jiyoon Lee, Amanda Stokes;

El Paso, Texas – Christopher Barron;

Elizabeth – Kelby Friday;

Elm Grove – Jaocb Dunn, Tekeia Russell;

Elmer – Katelynn Cloud;

Elton – Kayla Bellard;

Elysian Fields, Texas – Jane Harris;

Eunice – Lea Boone, Trevor Landreneau, Alison Turk;

Farmerville – Julia Legrande, Kayla Smith;

Ferriday – Callie Shermer, Dalenesha Wimley;

Flatwoods – Jasmine George;

Florien – Hillary Charles, Willow Chesson, Noah Parker, Dylan Roberts, Kelcy Sandel, Megan Wagley, Zachary Williams;

Folsom – Sarah Moore;

Forney, Texas – Jared Walker;

Fort Myers, Fla. – Andrea Smarsh;

Fort Polk – Bailey Bailey, Brittany Chadwick, Laura Gee, Genesis Rondon Torres, Christian Wood;

Fort Worth – Corban James;

Fouke, Ark. – Holly Tweedy;

Franklin – Alison Guidroz, Abriana Lanceslin;

Franklinton – David Jenkins, Aron Stephens;

Frierson – Marvaeya Edwards, Clinton Oliver, John Rachal;

Garland, Texas – Adrianna Velarde;

Geismar – Elijah Ino-Baptiste;

Georgetown, Ind. – Ellisa Rohlf;

Gheens – Samantha Clark;

Glenmora – Kristopher Devore, Faith Lawrence, Riah Wells, Tiara Baker;

Gloster – Angelica Gandy, Jennifer Simmons;

Goldonna – Alexander Guillory, Hannah McGrew, Allison Self, Brianna Calhoun’

Gonzales – Nicole Jones, Courtney LeJeune, Rebecca Marchand;

Gorman, Texas – Kourtney Seaton;

Grand Cane – Sandra Kimble;

Grand Prairie, Texas – Stephen Garrett;

Granite City, Ill. – Megan O’Brien;

Gray – Cassie Becnel;

Grayson – Sabrina Mckeithen;

Greenwell Springs – Katherine Bryant;

Greenwood – Ragan Aple;

Gretna – Rayshaughn Armant, MyDung Hoang, Jasmine Myles, Tachel Neathamer;

Guaynabo, Puerto Rico – Emily Bencosme;

Hackberry – Lexie Stine;

Hammond – Elizabeth Belgard;

Harahan – Azriel Marshall;

Harris, Minn. – Matthew Johnson;

Harvey – Tajalai Evans, Binta Francis;

Hattieburg, Miss. – Mary Mitchell;

Haughton – Shannon Barnard, Benny Broadway, Heather Casil, Randi Corley, Bethanie Couch, Haylee Douglass, Tyler Holdsworth, Jackice Hudson, Bethany Knotts, Elizabeth Langley, John Nance, Sherrie Singleton, Hannah Teutsch, Larissa Wells, Kacie Wilkinson, Kaili Williams;

Heflin – Haley Shepherd;

Henderson, Texas – Andrew Blackmon, John Floyd, Emily Ortiz;

Henderson – Asha Cormier;

Hessmer – Ryan Armand, Aslyn Sennie;

Hineston – Victoria Carroll, Richard Clark, Karlie Taylor;

Holloman AFB, New Mexico – Kayla Bull;

Homer – Madison Cain;

Hornbeck – Sarah Ceballos, Tori Dahlhoff, Ronald Guess, Megan Martelle, Miranda Roberts;

Houma – Jessica Coleman, Rhiannon Dean, Anna Gautreaux, Billy Gorr;

Houston – Brittany Davis, Alyssa Jacobs, Jordan Rains, Micayla Sorosiak, Madilyn Wood;

Hugo – Chelsea Caldwell;

Humble – Trevin Whitaker;

Independence – Sabrina Cook;

Jackson – Brennan Booth;

Jeanerette – Kennedi Boutte, Brandy Jackson;

Jena – Braegan Burlew, Dylan Hebert, Jordan Mitchell, Jerrod Snoddy;

Jennings – Emily Benoit, Rachel Edwards, Rachelle Edwards, Phillip Gotte, Jacob Guidry Lydia Williams;

Johnston, Penn. – Morgan Lewis;

Jonesboro – Jacqueline Blankenship, JaVonna Lawrence, Savannah Maricle, Destini Mathews, Rachel Eichmann;

Kaplan – Lauren Schexnayder;

Katy, Texas – Jocelyn Cummons;

Keithville – Kristin Dall, Shevonte’ Lewis, Michelle McDonnell, Erica Sanders;

Kenner – Alexis Hollingsworth;

Kerens, Texas – Brandon Brumbelow;

Kinder – Konnor Cormier, Nicholas Moldovsky, Logan Terrell;

King Ferry, N.Y. – Kayleigh Bartlow;

Kinston, N.C. – Jennifer Freeman;

La Porte, Texas – Jeremy Hasan

LaPlace – Jalen Haydel;

Lacombe – Aaron Hebert;

Lafayette – Laci Bruno, Michael Carrier, Samantha Donlon, Robert Leray, Emilee Leger, Shenekia McDonald, Robert Middleton, Elizabeth Monaghan, Joy Newman, Shelby Riedel, Hunter Robicheaux, China Young, Richard Clay;

Lake Charles – Chelsey Bertrand, Wesley Bray, Michael Driskill, Anna Eaglin, Kennedy Fontenot, Kathleen Hilliard, Isaiah Roy, Michael Thomas;

Lake Providence – Forrest Middlebrook;

Lakehills, Texas – Agusta Stewart;

Larlace – Benjamin Arie;

Las Vegas, Nevada – April Ficarrotta

Lavon, Texas – Berenice Bretado, Matthew Howeth;

League City, Texas – Hunter Wamack, Christopher Zirkle;

Lecompte – Ashtin Youngblood, Joann Cody;

Leesville – Shandreka Atwater, Katlyn Austin, April Beck, Katherine Benson, Kevin Blake, Rebekah Bridges, Jessica Burrell, Victoria Butler, Hannah Coleman, Carter Coriell, Conner Dillon, Raegan Dotson, Haleigh Edinger, Brittany Edwards, Brittany French, Kaitlyn Frisbie, Miranda Fulks, Sean Grady, Jessica Gray, Alexis Greavu, Robert Green, Madison Hall, Morgan Hall, Alexis Harbin, Heather Hickman, Amea James, Caitlan James, Antonia Kettner, Brandon Lynn, James Magee, Karl Marzahl, Sean McCroary, Thomas Merchant, Stephanie Miller, Emily Moore, Brittany paris, Ashley Perondi, Kaplan Rolon, Tiffany Rubin, Jeffrey Santos, Joseph Slaughter, Heather Snell, Linda Strauss, Tabitha Vasquez, Natalie West, Kristin Whistine, Hannah Scott, Bruce Stone;

Lena – Dillon Guin;

Little Elm, Texas – Jasmine Ealy;

Livonia – Alexis Deville;

Logansport – Kelsey Bolden, Jessica Thompson;

Longmont, Colo. – Cadence Starr;

Longview, Texas – Gustavo Corrales Hannah Dunn, Kelli Hickerson, Julie Rawls;

Loranger – Cambree Bailey;

Louisville, Miss. – Zachary Wilson;

Luling – Macie Barrios, Nathan Roth;

Madisonville – Christian Hastings, Sarahjane Ladut, Melissa Polizzi;

Magnolia, Texas – Ray Teninty;

Mandeville – Nicole Albert, Brandon Eberts;

Mansfield – Erin Campbell, Wesley Caston, Quinterra Clark, Melissa Hanson, Bradley Justice, Jairus Lane, Jessica Miller, Ashley Shelton, Brooke Smith, Shelby Hebert;

Mansura – Jonah Johnson, Allen St. Romain;

Many – Hannah Boswell, Toby Bruce, Samantha Carrier, Shelby Clifton, Salvador Cruz Montellano, Haleigh Dockens, Kyle Elliott, Alison Garcia, Moses Gonzalez, Mariam Haider, Clayton Kelley, Adina Manshack, Gabrielle Murphy, Chelsea Parrie, Colten Sepulvado, Shayna Sepulvado, Heather Trichel, Hannah Webb;

Marksville – Javoanta Batiste, Madeleine Morrow, Jessie Negrotto, Tanner Nugent;

Marrero – Jay Canova, Jade Duthu, Addison Hinson, Lorena Martin;

Marshall, Texas – Matayzhsa Dorsey, Abigail Upton, Tristian Zamora;

Marthaville – Dillon Hagan, Rennee Lirette, Daniel Rachal-Claspill, Ashleigh Wright;

Maurice – Adele Vincent;

McKinney, Texas – Jocelyn Scott;

Melville – Alexis Barker;

Mesquite, Texas – Jaylen Mumphrey;

Metairie – Daneil DeVun, Cameron Duhe, Phyllis Leblanc;

Midlothian, Ill. – Daniel Hlad;

Minden – Hutton Leppert, Fisher McLemore, Adriana Spurlock;

Mira – Taylor Andrews;

Miramar, Fla. – Frank Boudreaux;

Monroe – Kathryn Adams, Kiara Drumgo, Taylor Hogan, Carrissa Holmes, Brooke Howard, Aaron Hunt, Brittany Jackson, Sidney Jackson, Luke Matherne, Anna McKoin;

Montegut – Nicole Cohen, Stephanie Cohen;

Montgomery – Logan Lambert, Morgan McManus, Kaitlyn McShan, Brittany Plunkett, Stephanie Sanders, Bruce Schimmel;

Montverde, Fla. – Andrea Rodriguez;

Moreauville – Reginea Alexander;

Morgan City – Sennet Wiggins;

Mooringsport – Ariel Kendrick, Samantha Mattson;

Moss Bluff – Bayleigh Smith;

Mount Albert, Canada – Emily Sitarz;

Mt. Hermon – Warren McFarlain;

Nampa, Idaho – Isaiah Brittell;

Natchez – Alexis Moses;

Natchitoches – Jeremy Aaron, Daniella Angulo Martinez, Cass Arnold, Kayla Arnold, Luz Arrieta Jimenez, Maina Ibn Mohammed, Aaron Averett, Abbigal Barton, Samuel Bedgood, Lauren Bennett, Michaela Blackshear, Joshua Bolton, Keaton Booker, Taylor Burch , Heather Burrell, Nathan Cain, Manton Capers, Maria Carmona-Ruiz, Patricia Carrion Salinas, Jonathan Carruth, Emilio Castro, Thomas Celles, Valerie Chadick, Halley Chapa, Dominitra Charles, Brittony Cole, Jeremy Cox, Whitney Cromartie, Kara Davis, Sean Day, Myranda Degraw, Michael Deville, Lydia Doucet, Chasity Dupree, Fred Fontenot, Ashley Fortenberry, Clarisse Gaucel, Bradley Goins, Orlando Gonzalez, Spencer Goodwin, Lawden Halliburton, Tiara Hayes, Saul Hernandez, Joshua Hickman, Kaitlyn Hotz, Anna Hudson, Polina Ivanova, De’Ja Jenkins, Casi Killian, Michael Kingsley, Ashante Knox, Lyndon Knueppel, Haley LaCaze, Carlomongo Leon Jimenez, Dedrick Lewis, Tarah Lott, Taimata Luafalemana, Cody Luce, Meredith Machen, Terrian Marchand, Andrew McAlister, Caitlyn McCauslin, Joseph McClung, Paul Mealancon, Oni Melendez Carrillo, Jasmine Milsap, Amber Minor, Paul Monroy Galeyeva, William Montgomery, Maria Moreno Ponte, Ethan Mouton, Brooklyn Noe, Cameron Normand, Lindsey Prewitt, Korey Rachal, Katelynn Raggio, Darian Raymond, Candice Richardson, Ashley Rico, Antavious Roberson, Tyler Roberts, Aaron Rogers, William Rogers, Kayla Roquemore, Richard Sargee, Courtney Sarpy, Arsenije Savic, Jonathan Simmons, Alexisa Smith, Skyler Speer, Drake Taveney, Margaret Thompson, Austin Townsend, Kristan Valdez, Ricardo Ventura, Angelo Vergara Otero, Christopher Vienne, Garrett Vienne, Ashlyn Vitte, Kenikka Wafer, Jacob Ware, Kaylee Weakley, Matthew Weems, Leighann Westfall, Laurence Wynder, Rashi Yadav, ShaRhonda Zeno, Jasmine Howard, Kiara Murphy, Anna Taveney, Laura Guzman Rodriguez, Alyssa Odom, Rebecca Thomisee;

New Iberia – Alexondria Gray, Grace Kerns, Natalie Ortega;

New Llano – Undrea Beasley, Victoria Carbaugh, Nicole Castille, Amanda Hunt, Kaylea Lawrence, Jordan Sellers, Alyssa Turner, Collar Wilson;

New Orleans – Rayna Brantley, Larionne Clark, Dominique Davis, Marquise Davis, Darlene Fairley, Brielle Mallet, Rishard Winford, Nicholas Landry,

New Windsor – Mckaila Hughes;

Nic – Emilija Dancetovic;

Niceville – Lauren Reilly;

Noble – Logan Sepulvado;

Oberlin – Ann Long, Sonia Ortiz, Jonathon Villareal;

Oil City – Chaddrick Thomas, Erin Weaver;

Oklahoma City – Jasmine Juarez;

Olla – Erica Netherland;

Omro – Jason Kralovetz;

Opelousas – Jasmine Donatto, Terry Faul, Ashley Kelly;

Pacifica, Calif. – Nicholas Pierotti;

Paris, Texas – Zachary Hevron, Cody Vorwerk, Rebekah Wiley;

Pearl River – Megan Boyanton, Danielle Williams;

Pelican – Bridgette Howard;

Pereina Risapalda – Paola Mendez Ruiz;

Pine Prairie – Dustin Clark;

Pineville – Aimee Ashworth, Brenden Beavers, Landyn Brossett, Victoria Burns, Carrigen Cain, Payten Collins, Luke Conway, Sydney Duhon, Sarah Flue, Heather Fontenot, Cory Franklin, Lacey Funderburk, Hannah Gaspard, Deaunte Gay, Courtney George, Megan Hendricks, Caleb Howell, Kaitlyn Jackson, Jasmine Johnson, Alyssa Lloid, Allison McCloud, Marissa McMickens, Austin Nelson, Jessica Nichols, Taylor Parro, Michalene Perry, Cinnamon Player, Diane Richey, Loren Ryland, Destiny Zito, Taylor Campbell, Morgan Huddleston John Marino;

Pitkin – Jessica Jones, Logan McClure, Amber Perkins, Samuel White;

Plain Dealing – Dormesha Noble, Hunter Horton;

Plaquemine – Kameron Landry;

Pleasant Hill – Ja’Licia Franklin, Yasmine Maxie;

Pollok, Texas – Katelyn Boles;

Pontotoc, Miss. – Shelby Drope;

Port Allen – Joseph Anderson, Corey Baskin;

Prairieville – Carly Bourgeois, Grace Brumfield, Joanna Bunnell, Andrea Gathercole, Gracyn Migues, Brooke Tompkins, Payton Stafford;

Princeton – Hannah Bradley, Camilla Jones, Madison Kennedy, Ariell Shield, Raynell Shield, LeKayla Smith, Elani Woods;

Provencal – Carson Custis, Heather Davis;

Raceland – Paige Parks;

Rayville – Emily Rawls, Mary Rogers;

Reno, Nev. – Olivia Marazzo;

Rhinehart – Bethany Russell;

Ringgold – Alora Bryant;

River Ridge – Taylor Young;

Robeline – Arin Ammons, Jonathan Chism, Joshia Dockens, Hannah Hennigan, Megan Maley, Megan Palmer, Madelyn Rachal, Bradley Sparish, Rebecca Sparish, Victoria Thompson;

Rogers, Ark. – Mary Reed;

Rosepine – Emilee Johnson;

Rowlett, Texas – Daniel Miner;

Ruston – Seth Hartsfield, Irene Hild, Maya Robertson, Emarea Scott;

Saline – Cheyenne Roberts;

San Pedro Sula, Cortes – Jonathan Andino Madrid, Cesia Corrales, Bella Triminio Gutierrez;

Santa Rosa Beach, Fla. – Angel Migues;

Saskatoon, Canada – Loren MacLennan;

Shiatook, Okla. – Sadie Fudge;

Shongaloo – Cassidy Lablue;

Shreveport – Daytreiona Allen, Ashlee Arkansas, Yasmeen Bader, Shakendra Bailey, Denisha Bankhead, Jessica Bollingham, Alyssa Bonacci, Ethan Branch, Delores Brown, Meosha Brown, Rakeisha Brown, Caitlin Bruce, Michael Cade, Charlie Caldwell, Jessie Cardenas, Amanda Charles, Breonnica Collins, Kendall Crosby, Garrison Davis, ShaKendra Davis, John Davidson, Courtney Dehart, Kevin Denks, Miya Douglas, Kristina Doyal, Lauren Edwards, Takayla Edwards, Ellison Brandy, Amye Flair, Sean Flair, Zachary Fussell, Jade Gaines, Rayvin Gaudet, Cassidy Giddens, Courtney Giddens, Courtnei Green, Elaina Guerrero, Natalie Hirsch, Brea Housley, Madyson Istre, Randall Johnston, Cavonte Jones, Chardunae Jones, Nathan Jones, Colton Kennedy, Tradeya King, Alexis Kochinskey, Mallory LaLena, Katie Layfield, Bryan Lee, Ziming Li, Katherine Lind, Sarah Long, Chassidy McMillon, Christine Mettenbink, Najah Mitchell, Terrye Moore, Katlynn Morris, Joann Nelson, Hillary Nicholls, Emily Paxton, Haley Peace, Jared Perkins, Gertrud Rankin, Shelby Reddy, Patricia Reed, Harrison Reeves, Jiminia Rhymes, Kierstin Richter, Keyonna Roberson, Ashley Santos, Lyshaqwanna Shandle, Mary Sibley, Richard Sloan, Kendall Sneed, Chris Spence, Christa Sprawls, Cynthia Terrell, Hannah Wagener, Kayla Waller, Brandon Williams, Donald Williams, Shamolia Williams, Krashanta Barrett, Naterria Davis, Moriah Heinsius, Jesse Kortus, Breyonna Thompson, Kathryn Cunningham, Deanna Peveto, Yao Wang;

Simmesport – Kimani Batiste, Olivia Draper, Bailie Marsh;

Simpson – David Marquis, Mackenzie Strickland;

Slidell – Katie Buttner, Katherine Gallinghouse, Theresa Sharp;

Spring Dale, Ark. – Sabrina Bailey;

Spring, Texas – Hailee Rhodes;

Spring Lake, N.C. – Jeflyn Winstead;

St. Francisville – Joshua Mann, Ryan Reed;

St. Gabriel – Brooke Griffiths;

St. James – Kaci Cavalier;

St. Martinville – Autumn Blanchard, Blake Blanchard;

St. Maurice – Breona Hollingsworth;

Stone Mountain, Ga. – Ryland Francis;

Stonewall – Jaci May;

Sugartown – Madison Budnik;

Sulphur – Lillian Broussard, Derek Henry, Bralyn James, Jennifer Watzlavik;

Tallulah – Frances Ferguson;

Taylor, Texas – Jake English;

Terrytown – Katlynn Klein;

Texarkana, Texas – Sydney Cowgill, Daphne Hammett;

Tioga – Hannah Pusateri;

Tomball, Texas – Kylie Spencer;

Trout – Jessilyn Sandifer;

Tyler, Texas – De’Shayln Jones;

Vacherie – Chelsea Kliebert;

Ventress – Racheal Gaude;

Vidalia – Anna Cowan, Zoie Gillespie, Evandria King;

Ville Platte – Hannah Gallow, Natalie Morrison, Regis Tezeno;

Vinton – Shae Cramer, Madison Zaunbrecher;

Violet – Briana Acosta;

Vivian – Chase Lewis;

Wahiawa, Hawaii – Taylor Camidge;

Walker – Saxon Bumpus, David Kolb;

Waskom, Texas – Jonas Richardson;

Waynesville, Mo. – Jessica Rodger;

Welsh – Alisha Ledoux;

West Monroe – Madelyn Bryan, Laura Lovell;

Westwego – Katie Desalvo;

Wetmore, Colo. – Diane Norbury;

White Castle – Gavin Landry;

Whitesboro, Texas – Guy Butts;

Winnfield – Melissa Godwin, Ili Habash, Ieishlia Lynch, Laci Parker, Kellie Smedley;

Winnsboro – Hunter Cooper;

Woodway, Texas – Chrishard Buhl;

Woodworth – Slade Allen, Laura Galbreath;

Yaroslavl, Russia – Polina Mutel;

Youngsville – Randall Blair, Bridgett Landry, Matthew Leleux;

Yukon, Okla. – Brook Wray;

Zachary – Keith Etue, Courtney Page, Caitlyn Thibodaux, Dshanti Walker

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