The 2022 National Latin Exam drew more than 100,000 participants from all fifty states and the District of Columbia, as well as twenty-one countries — among them the United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, Greece, Germany, Denmark, New Zealand, Australia, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, and South Korea. The full record of this year’s awards is set down below.
- Charles Cho
- Emma Kang
- William Kim
- Elena Lee
- Jinmin Lee
- Rachel Lee
- Daniel Park
- Victoria Park
- Jewon Shin
- Esther Chae
- Teresa Chang
- Jaye Cho
- Jian Hong
- Emily Hwang
- Yerim Lee
- Emily Son
- Q-ry Baik
- Alexander Lee
- Esther Lee
- Grace Lee
- Gracie Lee
- Chae-Eun Park
Those who follow these pages will notice several names that appeared in last year’s record as well — William Kim, Victoria Park, Jaye Cho, Jian Hong, Emily Hwang, among others. This is worth pausing over. The National Latin Exam is not the kind of examination one places well in through momentum or accumulated familiarity; it tests what a student can actually do with Latin in a given year, against a field that grows and changes. To place at the Gold or Silver tier in consecutive years, in a competition of this size, is not repetition. It is evidence that the formation has held — that what was built is still standing, and indeed still growing.
Twenty-two placing students in a field of more than a hundred thousand. The record speaks for itself.