Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2007

State math team earns national honors

The South Carolina Council of Teachers of Math sponsored a 34-student contingent that traveled to the American Regions Math League competition at Penn State University during the first weekend in June.

Faculty advisers split the group into two, 15-member teams for the competition. (Four S.C. middle school students attended as alternates.)

The S.C. All-State math team that nicknamed itself “Doom” won the national title in its division, besting approximately 80 squads from around the country and several foreign nations.

Members of S.C.’s winning team were:
Brian Bowers — Summerville High
Junda Chen — the Governor’s School for Science and Math,
Philip Cross — Dreher High
Noah Fram — Dreher High
Asif Khan — Spring Valley High
Jim Manning — A.C. Flora High
Aaron Markham — Dreher High
Peter Rassolov — Spring Valley High
Harry Richman — Spring Valley High
Sean Soni — A.C. Flora High
Jaydeep Srimani — D.W. Daniel High (Pickens)
Rono Srimani — D.W. Daniel High (Pickens)
Katie Steddenbenz — A.C. Flora High
Ian Taylor — A.C. Flora High
Bella Wang — the Governor’s School for Science and Math

S.C.’s other team chose the name “Gloom.” Its members included:
Jessie Ge — Spring Valley High
Chad Bloodworth — Colleton County High
Nick Bodnar — Irmo High
Ben Cousins — Irmo High
Taylor Edwards — Summerville High
Ankit Grover — D.W. Daniel High (Pickens)
Adam Hassler — Summerville High
David Jensen — James F. Byrnes High (Spartanburg)
Aurel Lazar — Spring Valley High
Ming Lin — Southside High (Greenville)
Carmen Ng — James F. Byrnes High (Spartanburg)
Meredith Nix — A.C. Flora High
Gina Noh — Spring Valley High
Heather Sprague — James F. Byrnes High (Spartanburg)
Ryan Starcher — Colleton County High

The four middle school alternates were:
Sage Price — Crayton Middle (Columbia)
David and William Zhang — Buist Academy (Charleston)
Velina Kozareva — Dutch Fork Middle (Irmo)

Coaches:
Head coach: Patrick Rybarczyk, A.C. Flora High
Assistant coaches: Dr. Dave Trautman (The Citadel), Marcus Neal (Hammond School), Joe Laurendi (M.I.T. student), John Rushman (Crayton Middle), Robin Vrieland (Beaufort Academy), and Melissa Crosby (Colleton Academy).

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