Beachwood City Schools News Article

Ohio’s #1 Math Team

Beachwood Middle School math team excels in state, national competitions

June 21, 2022

Coach Amy Hazelton honors student Jiahe Liu

Beachwood Middle School honored more than 50 students in the Math Counts Club for achieving top rankings in grade-level and individual math competitions.

Among the club’s notable accomplishments, the eighth-grade team took first place in both the Ohio Math League and Mathcounts Northeast Ohio competitions. The sixth-grade team also excelled in the Ohio Math League competition, ranking first place in Cuyahoga County and second in the State of Ohio. Seven students across all grades ranked in the top 10 percent of the nation in the Noetic Learning Math Contest.

Club advisor Amy Hazelton praised students’ perseverance and dedication during a May 23 presentation to the Beachwood City Schools Board of Education.

“Just as athletes train to do well,” said Hazelton, “these students train for these competitions."

The Math Counts Club provides enrichment to students in grades six, seven, and eight. During the 2021-2022 season, students competed in four rigorous competition series. In addition to the Ohio Math League and Noetic Learning Math Contest, students participated in the Mathcounts and American Mathematics Competitions.

Eighth-grader Jiahe Liu made “Beachwood history,” according to Hazelton, after receiving perfect scores in each competition. Liu was awarded $3,500 for capturing first place in the written portion of the National MathCounts competition.

“What an unbelievable year you’ve had,” said Superintendent Robert Hardis to Liu. “I’m sure it’s just the start.”

This year’s math team honorees included:

Grade 6

Grade 7

Grade 8

Elijah Ajboye

Arihant Boddu

Giovana Ribeiro Duraes

Justin Elwell

Antoni Hinczewski

Christopher Jun

Jackson Klein

Joshua Korah

Ben Linick

Siddhant Makkar

Nathan Mu

Clarence Ouyang

Victoria Philip

Vijay Rao

Kiran Sankararaman

Rhea Shankar

Heeba Sossey Alaoui

Maxwell Spyke

Nolan Walsh

Sophia Wang

Aaron Zheng

Sarah Zhou

Ethan Chan

Daniel Chen

Nicholas Cheng

Yasha Cohen

Alice Han

Joyce Hong

Liyang Hu

Annaya Jain

Nimisha Kasliwal

Joseph Mo

Daniel Park

Samuel Park

Kathryn Roush

Aditya Samprathi

Colin Tew

Artiom Tkachenko

Amber Zhang

Eva Zheng

Arnav Bokil

Ida Chang

Dotan Dana

Derek Fan

Adam Hong

Srishti Ithychanda

Karina Krishnan

Mattew Leizman

Jiahe Liu

Eric Paul

Olekandr Rabochii

Aliaksei Sharakou

Lena Tsay

Leo Wang

Junbo Wang

Tony Zheng

Lyndia Zheng

Contact:
Lauren Meade, M.S.

Director of Communications
Beachwood City School District
[email protected]

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