FA Math Team Captures 10th Consecutive Regional Championship
On March 4, 41 of Fryeburg Academy’s top Mathletes boarded the bus for the final meet of the season at Telstar High School in Bethel Maine. With sharpened pencils and well-oiled cerebra, the varsity FA squad was on their best game against the 14 other Pi-Cone North math teams from throughout West-Central Maine.
The Fryeburg Mars Team finished the season with a total of 1,373 points to capture their 10th consecutive regional title. Oxford Hills High School came in a distant second with 934 points, and the Fryeburg Jupiter Team garnered third place with 895 points for the year. Fifteen area math teams competed in five regular-season meets in the Pi-Cone North Region— one of the five geographic divisions in the Maine Association of Math League.
Fryeburg is currently ranked eighth overall in the State, out of 140 teams, and is in second place in their division. Over 1,200 mathletes competed in the Maine Association of Math League monthly meets this school year. Two Fryeburg Academy students are highly ranked in the state: Andrii Obertas ‘21 is in 15th place, and Kyle Fairfield ‘21 is in the top 30.
After the fifth and final meet of the year, the annual awards ceremony was held at the Telstar Cafeteria. Ten FA Math Team members were awarded medals and cash prizes. In the Overall Awards, Junior phenom, Andrii Obertas, won the gold medal as the High Point Scorer for the Pi-Cone North League with 256 points, junior Kyle Fairfield was second with 209 points, and senior Arvin Ma placed fourth with 183 points. The first place senior medal was won by Kathy Yang with 170 points, Jane Ma was the third-place senior with 155 points, and AJ Leach was awarded the fourth place senior medal with 151 points. Juniors Quartney Qian with 120 points and Kaia Devries with 118 points won second and third place medals in their class division. Crystal Chen and Lucy Wang scored 144 points 116 points, respectively, to place first and second in the sophomore class division.
Over 50 Fryeburg Academy students attended weekly practices and competed in Math Meets this year—the highest number of students on record for the Math Team. Coach Erik Gustafson was assisted by Jim Gibson.
We are pleased to announce the following students who have earned academic recognition at Fryeburg Academy for the Fall of 2023-24:
HONORS Grade 12: (Honors)
Charlotte Adamus Vittoria Bernardini Natalie Berry Dom Bond Jordin Booker Owen Burford Tori Butters Jilyan Byrne Lorenzo Catana Vallemani Jonah Densmore Vitoria Do Espirito Santo Teixeira Elle Dooley Austin Dorner Deniz Eroglu Manu Fandos Martinez Aidan Flanigan Amber Gagnon Mia Grandchamp Gal Hanan
Emily Hoosier Noah Jacobs Emma Keaten David Kim Joey Kim Kardelen Lacinok Helena Landry Margherita Lassini Leo Lee Celine Lee Ana Maillett Moss Marques Caroline Masterman Asher McKenney Ryan Meade Natalia Millan Arenas Mina Milosevic Tommy Morini Tasia Nason
Rachel Pizzo Grace Porcaro Abby Pratt Ashe Rabideau Winter Raymond Dustin Rhoda Gideon Richard Leah Rokes Margherita Rossi Gunnar Saunders Louie Shin Lamar Smith Hunter Tripp Tanner Tripp Gabby Udoto Logan Walton Kara Willette Connor Williams Mary Wing Kevin Zhou
From October 31 through November 3, five members of the Academy's FFA Chapter (Future Farmers of America) and faculty member Jennifer Solter Jones attended the National FFA Convention held in Indianapolis, Indiana.
On Thursday, November 16th, Fryeburg Academy celebrated the fall sports season with its annual fall sports awards assembly held in the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center. The following student-athletes were recognized for their outstanding performance during the fall 2023-24 season:
Fryeburg Academy and the Board of Trustees announce the installation of Joseph R. Manning as the Academy’s 55th head of school. The Installation Ceremony was held on Friday, November 3, 2023, with members of the Fryeburg Academy community, the Board of Trustees, and former head of school Erin P. Mayo in attendance as a guest speaker. Manning steps into this new leadership role during the school’s 232nd year, following a long-tenured and successful career at the Academy spanning twenty years of service.
Fryeburg Academy seniors Tyler Bartick and Jiwon Choi have earned Letters of Commendation from the National Merit Scholarship Program (NMSC) for their performance on the 2022 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®).
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