Math Team Scores Victory

The Southwest High School Math Team competed in the fourth math team meet of the year on Monday, January 14^th at Roosevelt High School.  Six of the Minneapolis high schools and one charter school attended the meet. Southwest won again, making it mathematically certain that they will return to the state

tournament in March for the seventh consecutive year.

Some statistics from the meet.

• 112 total students from seven schools in the Minneapolis division participated.
• 38 Southwest students participated individually at the meet
• 35 of the Southwest students scored at least one point. This is particularly impressive, given that the 4^th meet of the year is annually the toughest meet we face.
• The varsity team (official scoring team) earned 52 of a possible 136 points, continuing their long standing winning streak within the division. Although this was a lower than anticipated total for our team, I’m hopeful that we won’t fall too far in the overall standings within the state. Southwest was in 11^th place overall in the state at the start of the meet.
• The junior varsity team earned 49 of a possible 136 points, unofficially finishing in second place within the division at this meet and narrowly missing out on finally beating the varsity team. I’m sure it will happen someday.

Official state rankings can be viewed at http://mnmathleague.org/

The cumulative rankings are located by clicking on the meets and standings tab on the top of the page.

The following is a list of top performing students from Southwest.

 

First Name	Last Name	Meet 4 Events	Meet 4 point total
Russell	Pekala	A and C	10
Nathaniel	Larson	A and B	9
Stefan	Payne-Wardenaar	B and D	8
Sam	Klein	A and B	7
John	Anderson	B and D	6
Seth	Colbert-Pollack	B and D	6
Madelaine	Foster	A and C	6