2010 MathCounts National Team

The State Mathcounts competition was held on March 6, 2010 at The Citadel in the Mark Clark auditorium, with 61 students and 25 schools from across the state participating.
MathCounts is Inspiring Excellence Through Math.  MathCounts mission is to secure America’s global competitiveness, MATHCOUNTS inspires excellence, confidence and curiosity in U.S. middle school students through fun and challenging math programs said Marguerite McClam, PE, state coordinator for the South Carolina Society of Professional Engineers, MathCounts sponsor and National MathCounts board member. These teams competed in local competition in seven areas around the state. All of these Mathletes were winners before they came to The Citadel. In order to compete at The Citadel these students had to win their school competition and local competition before advancing to the state level.

The top four individual winners plus the coach from the winning school team represents South Carolina at the national competition in Orlando, FL at Disney World May 6-9, 2010. First place winner in the individual competition was 7th grader David Stoner from St. Mary Help of Christians from the Aiken Chapter. The second and third place winners were both from Dent Middle School from the Columbia Chapter, 8th grader Gregory Rassolov placed second and 7th grader Richard Chen placed third. Kevin Zhao a 7th grader from Pleasant Hill Middle School also from the Columbia Chapter placed fourth. 

The 2010 National team coach is Cathy Stinson from Dent Middle School in Columbia.  This is Coach Stinson’s second year coaching the State team.

The winning school was Dent Middle School. The second was Pleasant Hill Middle School with Cario Middle School third. 

Next year’s state competition will be held at Coastal Carolina University in Conway.