The 2021 Arkansas Times Academic All-Star team
May 10, 20212:10 pm WIZ KIDS: (From left) Greenwood High s Anna Johnson, Episcopal Collegiate s Adanna Mogbo and Springdale High s Ryan Espejo.
The 2021
Arkansas Times Academic All-Star Team, the 27th team the
Times has honored, includes quiz bowl savants, budding novelists, future engineers and doctors and championship athletes. There’s rarely a B on the transcripts of these students in not just this, their senior year, but in any year of their high school careers. Read on for stories of inspiration in these troubled times. And see lists of All-Star finalists and nominees.
Traditionally, the All-Star team is made up of 10 boys and 10 girls, but this year’s class of boys was so strong our judges, retired school counselor Sam Blair and nonprofit leader and former State Board of Education member Mireya Reith, insisted on 11 boys.