Monday, February 5, 2007

Episcopal students won first place in the Calculus AB math bowl at the Brother Martin math competition on Jan. 20.

Calculus team members were Irene Huang, Jacob Hobbs, Erin Kirchoff and Kenny Sheldon. Hobbs also won first place in the Calculus AB individual test.

Josh Zuckerman placed second in the vocabulary competition.

Earning third-place awards were Kevin Mitchell, Calculus AB; Alfonso Croeze, Trigonometry; Madeline Wen, Geometry; and the Advanced Math/Trigonometry math bowl team of Haley Johnson, Marshall LaMoyne, Matthew Saltz and Collin McKey.

Placing fourth were Huang, Calculus AB, and the Geometry math bowl team of Kalynn Chumney, Ahad Mussarat, Jordan Ashcroft and Wen.

Earning honorable mentions were Kirchoff and Sheldon, Calculus AB, and McKey, Trigonometry.

Episcopal students also won numerous awards in the Catholic High School math tournament on Jan. 13.

In the large schools division, the following students placed first: the Calculus team of Madeleine Patrick, Jane Slusher, Nichole Anderson and Ben Kemp; the Comprehensive Math II team of Haley Johnson, Alfonso Croeze, Naiha Mussarat and Jessica Chu; and Carl Sabottke, Advanced Math/Trigonometry.

Placing second were Jacob Hobbs, Calculus, and the Calculus team of Ali Zamin, Danielle Jones, Taylor Peak and Sarah Seger.

Irene Huang placed third and Seger placed fifth in Calculus.

Placing sixth were Johnson, Advanced Math/Trigonometry, and Robyn Bowman, Algebra II.

Earning honorable mentions were Marchelle Jones, Laura Steitz and Emily Lutz, Advanced Math/Trigonometry; and Slusher, Zamin, Kirchoff and Peak, Calculus.

In math bowl competition against schools from all divisions, the Calculus team of Huang, Hobbs, Kirchoff and Saamia Faruqui earned second place.