Benet Math Team wins 2nd straight Regional Championship!

Benet Math Team Wins Regional Championship!

The Math Team won its 2^nd straight Regional Championship Saturday at Aurora University, qualifying the team for the State Finals in May.

Senior Brendan Caseria won the Senior Individual Written Competition, while senior Patrick Hawley finished third and seniors Zach McCormick and Tom Wester tied for fourth place. These scores gave the Seniors the Precalculus Regional Written Team Championship. Caseria also teamed up with junior Jach Stucky to finish first in the Junior-Senior 2-Person Contest.

Stucky and Junior Ryan Wolfe shared the Regional Championship in the Junior Individual Written Competition, while Eva Baghdan finished sixth leading the Juniors to the Algebra 2 Regional Written Team Championship.

Sophomores Max Helfers and Matt Rossi won Sophomore Individual Written Competition, and these same two finished first in the Freshman-Sophomore 2-Person Contest. The Sophomore Team finished second in the Geometry Regional Written Championship.

Freshmen twins Declan and Owen McNamara, along with Matt Bianucci and Arun Kumar swept, in order, the first four places in the Freshman Algebra 1 competition, as the Freshman Team easily won the Algebra 1 Regional Written Championship.

Other events winning a Regional Championship included the Freshman/Sophomore 8-Person Team*, the Junior/Senior 8-Person Team* and the Calculator Team*.

The Math Team will compete in the North Suburban Math League Conference Meet next week, and then begin preparations for the State Finals.

*Members of these teams are as follows:

Freshman/Sophomore 8-person Team

Ryan D’Mello

Max Houck

Tess Moriarty

Matt Rossi

Matt Bianucci

Delan McNamara

Owen McNamara

James Rabe

Junior Senior 8 person Team

Jacob Camp

Patrick Hawley

Zach McCormick

Tom Wester

Meg LeMay

Jonathan Lindsay-Rivera

Jack Stucky

Ryan Wolfe

Calculator Team

Pat Hawley

Kevin Scheer

Ryan Wolfe

Max Helfers

Arun Kumar