USC High School Math Contest - 2002 Results

Individual Results
- Written Exam
- Tournament
Team Results
- Division 1
- Division 2
Problems and Solutions
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Individual Results:

Written Exam

Xia Liu and Guy Boudreaux tied for the highest score on the written exam. They have each been awarded a four-year full tuition scholarship to attend USC.

For receiving the third highest score on the written exam, Saahir Khan has been awarded a four-year quarter-tuition scholarship to attend USC.

The table below lists the top 17 scorers on our written exam. We would like to congratulate these students as well as all of the students who have worked so hard and performed so well on our written exam.

Top 17 Scores on Written Exam (Official Participants)
Student	Score (out of 150)	Grade Level	High School	Teacher
Xia Liu	111	senior	Governor's School for Science and Math	Dr. Terry Long, Nancy Long
Guy Boudreaux	111	junior	Dreher High School	Christina Murphy, Linda Williams
Saahir Khan	104	senior	Dutch Fork High School	Laura Buddin
Matt Elder	101	senior	Lexington High School	Bettie Amick
Catherine Mack	96	senior	Hammond School	Mary Petersen
Ted Dickel	94	junior	D. W. Daniel High School	Marion Greene, Pat Welsh
Tina Zhang	92	sophomore	White Knoll High School	Jennifer Crooks-Monastra, Gail Collins, Christine Cotsford
Brandon Kearse	90	sophomore	Aiken High School	Ellen Grooms
Ted Wilcox	89	sophomore	Dreher High School	Christina Murphy, Linda Williams
Josh Patterson	87	junior	Hammond School	Mary Petersen
Jennifer Boyd	87	senior	T. L. Hanna High School	Sherry Martin
Ryan Field	87	junior	Governor's School for Science and Math	Dr. Terry Long, Nancy Long
David Wang	86	freshman	Dreher High School	Christina Murphy, Linda Williams
Brian Goodfellow	85	senior	Dutch Fork High School	Laura Buddin
Allison Rast	85	senior	James F. Byrnes High School	Katie Johnson
John Boyd ^*	84	senior	Brookland-Cayce High School	Julia Davis
Xin Wang ^*	84	junior	Lexington High School	Bettie Amick

* We used a tie-breaking coin toss to determine that John Boyd would progress to the tournament.

Top 2 Scores on Written Exam (Practice-Only Students)
Student	Score (out of 150)	Grade Level	High School	Teacher
Greg Padgett	89	?	White Knoll High School	Jennifer Crooks-Monastra, Gail Collins, Christine Cotsford
Adam Carson	87	junior	Governor's School for Science and Math	Dr. Terry Long, Nancy Long

Tournament

The top 16 scorers on our written exam participated in our Mathematics Tournament. Xia Liu was the winner and Matt Elder was the runner-up. Congratulations to both of them!

Round 1

Ted Wilcox vs. Xia Liu
Catherine Mack vs. David Wang
Jennifer Boyd vs. Saahir Khan
Allison Rast vs. Tina Zhang
Josh Patterson vs. Guy Boudreaux
Ted Dickel vs. Brian Goodfellow
Ryan Field vs. Matt Elder
John Boyd vs. Brandon Kearse

Round 2

Xia Liu vs. Catherine Mack
Jennifer Boyd vs. Allison Rast
Guy Boudreaux vs. Ted Dickel
Matt Elder vs. Brandon Kearse

Round 3

Xia Liu vs. Allison Rast
Guy Boudreaux vs. Matt Elder

Round 4

Xia Liu vs. Matt Elder

Winner

Xia Liu

Team Results:

Schools are divided into two divisions based on the number of students, the number of teachers, the scope of the math program, etc. For each team, we average the top 3 written exam scores. This score is added to the score from the ciphering portion of our contest to give the team score. Trophies are awarded to the schools with the top three team scores from each division. Congratulations to the following schools.

Division 1
	High School	Teacher	Students	Top 3 Average	Ciphering	TEAM SCORE
First Place	Governor's School for Science and Math	Dr. Terry Long, Nancy Long	Xia Liu, Ryan Field, Tommy Morgan, Bailes Brown, Tripp Jones, Mike Kocurek	92.0	33	125.0
Second Place	Dreher High School	Christina Murphy, Linda Williams	Guy Boudreaux, Ted Wilcox, David Wang, Kevin Yeh, Jennifer Mason, John Egan	95.3	28	123.3
Third Place	Lexington High School	Bettie Amick	Matt Elder, Xin Wang, Reed Zhao, April Xiong, James Kirkpatrick, Christina Austin?	89.3	32	121.3

Division 2
	High School	Teacher	Students	Top 3 Average	Ciphering	TEAM SCORE
First Place	Hammond School	Mary Petersen	Catherine Mack, Josh Patterson, Lee Howard	79.3	26	105.3
Second Place	Ben Lippen School	Bob Hess	Justin Marsh, Jin-suk Park, Joseph Lee, Karen Hsi, Sun Hee Chung, Peter Hsi	77.7	14	91.7
Third Place	Trinity Collegiate School	Josh Hicks	Ginger Howell, Steven Winburn, Anna Perry, Rachel Veto, Lisa Sha	65.7	16	81.7

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