EPCHS Mustang Mathletes Heading to State Competition

On Saturday, February 22, the following EPCHS Mathletes placed 1st at Regionals and qualified for the State Contest to be held in May at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. Individual qualifiers were: Freshman David Ortiz, Sophomores John Bledsoe and Zach Meyer, Junior Grace Beyer, and Senior Colin Brennan. Team Qualifiers were: The Calculator Team of Freshman David Peralta, Sophomore Travis Sirevicius, Junior Grace Beyer, and Seniors Angela Bosch and Matt Miglieri; the Precalculus Team of Angela Bosch, Colin Brennan, Sinead Doogan, Liam Duffy, CJ Kompare, and Sarah Meyer; and the two-person team of Colin Brennan and Liam Duffy.

In addition, the Mustangs placed second overall! Contributing to that 2nd Place finish were the Freshman/Sophomore two-person team of David Ortiz and John Bledsoe who placed third; the Freshman/Sophomore eight-person team of David Ortiz, Noah Valdez, Jamia Head, John Bledsoe, Cristina Ocampo, Zach Meyer and Madelyn Schaffrath; and the Junior/Senior eight-person team of Grace Beyer, Mani Onyango, Zach Meyer, Madelyn Schaffrath, Colin Brennan, Liam Duffy, Katie Jacobson and CJ Kompare; and Oralists Brooke Scanlon and Sinead Doogan who all placed second.