Rock Bridge High School takes first place at 21st annual High School Math Tournament

Published: 03/13/2018

St. Charles Community College hosted the 21^st annual High School Math Tournament in cooperation with mathleague.org on March 3. The event brought 13 area high schools and 57 students to SCC’s campus. The tournament was open to any student in grades 9-12. 

The results for the tournament are as follows:

Ninth grade finalists: Target Round

• First place: Daniel Fratilla of Hickman High School
• Second place: Prateek Gautam of Marquette High School
• Third place: Ashish Dhanalakota of Marquette High School
• Third place: David Bonstead of Francis Howell Central
• Fifth place: Riley Christian of Lindbergh High School

10th grade finalists: Target Round

• First place: Kevin Kotzbauer of Clayton High School
• Second place: Sarvesh Palaniappan of Fort Zumwalt West High School
• Second place: Arjun Ramakrishnan of MICDS
• Fourth place: Nawal Cheema of Liberty High School

11th grade finalists: Target Round

• First place: Michael Yu of Francis Howell Central High School
• Second place: Hongkai Jiang of Clayton High School
• Third place: Jerry Li of Marquette High School
• Fourth place: David Hubbartt of Francis Howell Central High School
• Fifth place: Henry Huang of Rock Bridge High School

12th grade finalists: Target Round

• First place: Tong Zhao of Clayton High School
• Second place: Kevin Kiehne of Rock Bridge High School
• Third place: Taylor Kroupa of Troy Buchanan High School
• Third place: Madeline Fields of Francis Howell North High School
• Fifth place: Ian Hudson of Clayton High School
• Fifth place: Stephen Jankovich of Fox High School

Ninth grade finalists: Sprint Round

• First place: Ashish Dhanalakota of Marquette High School
• Second place: Rincon Jagarlamudi of Marquette High School
• Third place: Daniel Fratilla of Hickman High School
• Fourth place: Prateek Gautam of Marquette High School
• Fifth place: Sam Byerly of Lindbergh High School
• Fifth place: David Daum of St. Dominic High School 

10th grade finalists: Sprint Round

• First place: Kevin Kotzbauer of Clayton High School
• Second place: Nawal Cheema of Liberty High School
• Third place: Arjun Ramakrishnan of MICDS
• Fourth place: Sarvesh Palaniappan of Fort Zumwalt West High School
• Fifth place: Nikhil Vyas of Rock Bridge High School 

11th grade finalists: Sprint Round

• First place: Michael Yu of Francis Howell Central High School
• Second place: Jerry Li of Marquette High School
• Second place: Henry Huang of Rock Bridge High School
• Fourth place: Hongkai Jiang of Clayton High School
• Fifth place: David Hubbartt of Francis Howell Central High School

12th grade finalists:

• First place: Tong Zhao of Clayton High School
• Second place: Dilan Kurukulasuriya of Rock Bridge High School
• Third place: Ethan Hemmer of Troy Buchanan High School
• Fourth place: Ian Hudson of Clayton High School
• Fourth place: AJ Aumann of Fox High School

Team Round: No grade level

• First place: Clayton High School with team members Kotzbauer, Jiang, Kahn, Zhao and Hudson
• Second place: Rock Bridge High School with team members Kiehne, Huang and Vyas
• Third place: Marquette High School with team members Li, Dhanalakota and Jagarlamudi
• Fourth place: Hickman High School with team members Jones and Fratilla
• Fifth place: MICDS with team members Dhanabal and Ramakrishnan

Relay Round: No grade level

Rock Bridge High School won the relay round with team members Kurukulasuriya, Kiehne and Huang.  

Overall winners

• First place: Rock Bridge High School
• Second place: Clayton High School
• Third place: Marquette High School

For more information about the tournament, contact Joe Howe at jhowe@stchas.edu or 636-922-8318. 

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