Chesterton High School won the state championship in the second-year division, and placed third in the third-year division at the Japanese Olympiad of Indiana at Ball State University in Muncie on Saturday. CHS has now won the Japan Bowl/Japanese Olympiad state championship twenty three times along with three national Japan Bowl championships and one national runner-up.
The Japanese Olympiad of Indiana is an academic competition for second, third and fourth-year students with categories including speaking, culture, kanji characters, proverbs, listening, geography, history, and onomatopoeic expressions.
The CHS second-year team of Brooklyn Guivas, Michael Izguerra and Paxton Martinez defeated Carroll and Highland high schools in the final round to win the state championship.
In the third-year division, the team of Marissa Roe, Emily Ponce and Dave Ruoff finished in third place behind Penn and Carroll high schools in the final round.
Oliver Elliot-Halinski and Mitchell Miller turned in an excellent performance in the competitive fourth-year division. Carroll High School won the division, followed by Michigan City and Penn.
The teams are coached by John Sparks and Akiko Tsugawa.