CCMS Academic Team Wins MathCOUNTS Regional Championship

Calloway County Middle School's academic team finished first overall at the Kentucky Lake Chapter Regional MathCOUNTS competition held on February 1st at WKCTC in Paducah. This qualifies the team for the state championship held at Western Kentucky University in March.

The members of the advancing team are Ava Bogard, Kyler McKeel, Zackary Haws, and Sam Davenport. Ava Bogard was the second highest scoring individual in the entire tournament while Sam Davenport was third. 

In addition, the tournament concluded with a countdown round, which is a single elimination quick recall competition for the top twelve scoring individuals in the region.  The Laker Team had six members that qualified for this part of the tournament—Ava Bogard, Sam Davenport, Kyler McKeel, Zack Haws, Brodie Barnett, and Andy Rogers.  After the countdown round was finished, Sam Davenport came in fourth place. 

The Laker MathCOUNTS team is composed of Ava Bogard, Kyler McKeel, Zackary Haws, Sam Davenport, Theodore Perlow, Emilio Gomez, Brodie Barnett, Dean Vernon, Andy Rogers, Kamden Hendrick, Daniel Briedwell, Elliott Malone, and Landon Hill.