The math team from West High won the 17th annual Mount Mercy University Mathematics competition on October 16th. The students representing West High dominated across the board, winning the top three team placements and the individual awards for each grade level. This is the math teamβs seventeenth consecutive win, meaning the math team is the only winner of the competition since its creation.
The West High team that placed first consisted of Amy Xiong β15, Kai Trepka β16, Casey McClenathan β17 and Junhee Lee β18. The second place team had Harry Manaligod β15, Nadav Kohen β16, Eugenia Chen β17 and Jeongwoo Seo β18. The third place team had Schuyler Cantrell β15, Pranav Krishnamurthy β18, Max Hill β17 and Kevin Liu β18.
The students that won the top individual award for each grade level are Seo for ninth grade, McClenathan for tenth grade, Trepka for eleventh grade, and Manaligod for twelfth grade.
The next math competition will be at Mt. Pleasant on Saturday, November 1st.
Photos courtesy of Jitka Stehnova.
The math club also won the Cedar Rapids Jefferson competition earlier this October.