* International School of Indiana, Indianapolis * Heritage Christian School, Indianapolis * Happy Hollow Middle School, West Lafayette " The 'mathletes' often shout out answers even before the questions are read." “It's a fast-moving event in which the top students from the morning competition respond to questions projected onto a screen," Woodward said. Jerry Woodward, mathematics K-12 outreach coordinator and local competition co-coordinator, said the countdown round in the afternoon is fun to watch. "They won the national championship in 1995 and placed second or third from 2004 through 2007." "Since about 1990, Indiana has always finished in the top 15 nationally," said Drnevich. Vincent Drnevich, professor of civil engineering and local competition co-coordinator, said the Indiana team should be competitive. The top four "mathletes" and top coach will earn the right to represent Indiana at the national competition, which will take place May 8-11 in Denver.
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The afternoon events are free and open to the public. in the Class of 1950 Lecture Hall, Room 224 and will conclude with an awards ceremony at approximately 2:30 p.m. MATHCOUNTS is a national nonprofit competition that promotes mathematics competency and achievement. The students will participate in the MATHCOUNTS state competition March 8 at Purdue University. More than 180 MATHCOUNTS competitors from Indiana middle and junior high schools hope to follow in the footsteps of last year's top finishers, who went on to earn second place in national competition. MaIndiana's top 'mathletes' to vie for national competition Toyota Vallejo Athlete of the Week Name: Peyton Holcomb Sport: Basketball Year: Junior Achievements: She finished with 26 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists and five steals in a win over South Fork and added 13 rebounds, 11 rebounds, five assists and six steals against Hayward en route to MVP honors in the West Coast Jamboree.Indiana's top 'mathletes' to vie for national competition
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“We’re still a very young team and they’re still learning how to play together. “I think her confidence improved not only in herself but with her teammates,” Fernandez said. On offense, sometimes we tend to shoot the ball too quickly but we were much better possessing the ball this time.”įernandez saw improvement from Holcomb and the entire team during the tournament. “We’ve been struggling with that at times. “Our ball movement was a lot better,” she said. Holcomb said she saw some improvement from her team during the West Coast Jamboree. That has resulted in some growing pains in the win-loss column this season. The Panthers finished 9-2 overall during the COVID-shortened spring basketball season last year but lost six seniors to graduation. “She’s really using those skills and with her basketball IQ, it’s really helping our young team.” “Last year she played more of a wing for us but with we knew we were losing so many seniors to graduation and we needed to develop a new point guard,” he said. It’s been a really good challenge, learning how to distribute more, dealing with things like boxes-and-ones and improving my decision making.”īenicia head coach Carlos Fernandez echoed that statement. “I’ve been playing point guard (in high school) but I’m usually more of a wing/shooting guard during travel ball. “I really wanted to improve my overall game,” Holcomb said about goals for this season. With that extra court time, her game took on new life this season.