Press release
When the Athens High School math team competed at the Sulphur Springs academic invitational meet last month, team members earned 35 medals and two team trophies.
The calculator team of Yuvia Leon, Mollie Davies, Eli McCool and Ideal Ademaj won first place, as did the mathematics team consisting of members Davies, McCool, Ademaj and Sierra Graves. The number sense team of Ademaj, Davies and McCool won second place behind the defending AAA state champions from Chism High School.
Individually, Davies won first in calculator and math, and sixth in number sense. McCool was second in calculator and math, and fifth in number sense. Ademaj won third place in number sense, fourth in math and fifth in calculator applications. Leon won sixth in calculator with a personal best of 113. Graves won fifth in math with a personal best of 58. Lauryn Gore also competed and won a sixth-place medal in math.
Pictured are, from left, Ideal Ademaj, Mollie Davies, Eli McCool, and (seated, from left), Yuvia Leon, Sierra Graves and Lauryn Gore. (Courtesy photo)