Bishop Union High School Student Named State Champion in Trig-Star Competition

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Bishop Union High School Student Named State Champion in Trig-Star Competition

BISHOP —Bishop Union High School (BUHS) senior Alyssa Buchholz has been named the 2025 California Trig-Star champion. Miss Buchholz is a three-time local winner of the annual contest, which promotes the field of professional land surveying through a test that challenges students’ practical application of trigonometry. This year, Miss Buchholz completed the test with a perfect score in just under 16 minutes, a feat unsurpassed by any other student in California.

On Friday, May 23, she was presented a check for $1,000 from the California Land Surveyors Association by Caltrans Senior Transportation Surveyor Sereyna Cagle. Each spring, Ms. Cagle administers the Trig-Star program at BUHS, which includes a presentation about the land surveying profession in addition to the competitive test. This is the first time in the 12 years she’s overseen the competition that a local student won the statewide prize.

With this exceptional achievement, Miss Buchholz became eligible to participate in the national Trig-Star competition, which she did on May 20. The top scorers of that test are expected to be announced in the coming weeks.

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News Staff