Bubones Take Victoria XVII
What does it take to achieve the 17th consecutive team championship in the Tennessee Junior Classical League?
According to Classical and Modern Languages Chair Ryan Sellers, it is not an easy achievement: “It requires the students staying focused, taking pride in the Bubones’ tradition of excellence, and putting in the sort of hard work in the Latin classroom, day in and day out, that makes championships like this possible.”
A total of 38 Upper School and Lower School Latin students traveled to the state convention at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville on April 10 and 11 and topped the competition with 1,740 points, more than triple the tally for the second-place team.
Six Bubones were among the top 10 individual scorers, with Joshua Gramm ’26 at No. 1. In addition, Carson Alexander ’27 was elected as TJCL president for the 2026-27 school year, and Coleman Russell ’27 was elected to serve as historian.
Additional highlights:
1. Joshua Gramm ’26 (179 points)
2. Rishabh Bag ’30 (138 points)
4. Joseph Zhao ’28 (105 points)
6. Henry Phan ’26 (96 points)
9. Kushal Das ’29 (87 points)
10. Wilson Pace ’26 (78 points)
See complete results HERE. See Images from the trip HERE.
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A total of 38 Upper School and Lower School Latin students traveled to the state convention at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville on April 10 and 11 and topped the competition with 1,740 points, more than triple the tally for the second-place team.
Six Bubones were among the top 10 individual scorers, with Joshua Gramm ’26 at No. 1. In addition, Carson Alexander ’27 was elected as TJCL president for the 2026-27 school year, and Coleman Russell ’27 was elected to serve as historian.
Additional highlights:
- The Latin One Certamen team finished in first place.
- The Latin Two and Latin Three-Four-Five teams both finished in second place.
- MUS swept the first-place awards in all four levels of the Academic Heptathlon competition. Gramm’s victory in the Level Four-Five division earns him a scholarship to this summer's National Junior Classical League Convention at Indiana University.
1. Joshua Gramm ’26 (179 points)
2. Rishabh Bag ’30 (138 points)
4. Joseph Zhao ’28 (105 points)
6. Henry Phan ’26 (96 points)
9. Kushal Das ’29 (87 points)
10. Wilson Pace ’26 (78 points)
See complete results HERE. See Images from the trip HERE.
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