Oak Hill Academy Takes Home First Place for Sixth Straight Year at CBA Math Contest

For the sixth year in a row, there was a familiar sight under the maple tree on the campus of Oak Hill Academy on Monday morning, October 20, 2014 as students arrived to begin their week. It reads: “Congratulations! Oak Hill Academy 1st Place – CBA Math Contest.

The 2014 team, coached by Mrs. Palamara, came in 1st place on October 18th! Fourteen schools competed in the private/parochial division. Each school sent eight students with the five highest individual scores being counted for the team score. Seventh grader, Thomas Wang (Marlboro), won the entire competition, after winning a tie-breaker with fellow teammate, Anna Effenberger (Colts Neck) (2nd place), coming in 1st place! It is quite an accomplishment! Also receiving trophies and placing in the top ten were: Michael Zhang (Middletown) (3rd place), Lucas Bruckmann (Freehold) (7th place), William Walsh (Fair Haven) (8th Place) and Dylan Servilla (Rumson) (10th place). Oak Hill dominance was evident with placing six students in the top 10! No other school even placed two students in the top ten! Also competing were: Hannah Gazdus (Rumson) and Mary Mahoney (Middletown).

In a look back over our 34 years of existence, Oak Hill has been fortunate to have much success in this prestigious math contest. Only the top five schools are awarded a trophy.

Oak Hill Academy has achieved:

· 25 years for a top five finish

(13 first places, 7 second places, 3 third places, 2 fifth places)

· 3 years for a top ten finish

· Since 1996: 2nd place; 2003: 3rd place; 2010: 1st place

1997: 1st place; 2004: 1st place; 2011: 1st place

1998: 1st place; 2005: 1st place; 2012: 1st place

1999: 3rd place; 2006: 2nd place; 2013: 1st place

2000: 2nd place; 2007: 1st place; 2014: 1st place

2001: 1st place; 2008: 2nd place

2002: 1st place; 2009: 1st place

For the last sixteen years, OHA has had fourteen 1st place individuals, (Richard Tapnio(’99), twice, Laura Budzyna(’00), Matthew Rydzak(’02), Bill Toth(’03), Dmitry Vagner(’04), Steven Castellano(’05), Vicky Lee(’06), Julian Gau(’11), twice, Gilbert Rashkovsky(’13), Jacob Yatvitskiy(’13), Harry Jain(’14) & Thomas Wang (’16)). No other school can claim such dominance!

Congratulations to Mrs. Palamara and the 2014 team, as well as all of the teachers who helped to prepare OHA math students over the years through their day to day curriculum.

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