Week One of the Philly Varsity Math League:

This is the opening week. In the opening week, defending league and tournament champions George School begin their title defense against Baldwin. The 2019 Varsity Tournament Champion, Episcopal Academy, faces the 2019 second ranked team, Springside Chestnut Hill Academy. Shipley is against Agnes Irwin. The number 2 and 3 ranked teams from 2020 and 2021 face off in Haverford vs The Hill School. Finally, in the Matches of the Week, Penn Charter faces Westtown, and Abington Friends makes its Philly League debut against another new Friends League School, Germantown Friends.

This week is out of 40.

The picture above is a picture of one of the lounges in UPenn's Towne Building. Credits to Forest Ho-Chen (George School '22, UPenn '26)

SCHA vs Episcopal Academy: Episcopal Academy wins with 34

EA: 8+7+7+6+6.

Shipley vs Agnes Irwin: Shipley wins with 30

Shipley: 7+7+6+5+5.

Haverford vs The Hill School: The Hill School wins 32-29

The Hill School: 7+7+6+6+6

George School vs Baldwin: George School wins 35-27.

George School: 8+7+7+7+6

Match of the Week:

Westtown vs Penn Charter: Penn Charter wins 36-31

Penn Charter: 8+8+7+7+6

Abington Friends vs Germantown Friends: Abington Friends wins

Shoutouts:

Requested by Episcopal Academy: Shout out to Eric Cui from Episcopal Academy for showing the spirit of the league by recruiting new participants!

Requested by Abington Friends: Shoutout to Lori Lei, Timmy Ma and Sophia Wu for captaining the AFS team.

Requested by Penn Charter: Henry Greenberg got 4 in his first competition as a sophomore!

Requested by George School: WELCOME most awesome newcomers to the team: Kevin Gong, Sam Gorby (now a regular),Peter Tang, Brianna Zhang, Wilson Xu, and Luke Zhang. Special congrats to new courageous 9th graders Kavya Gounder, Alina Pang, and Luke Zhang.

EA's perspective: https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci3pudzL8i9/