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(Some athletes train for years, sweating and toiling on sports fields and\
courts to elevate their game before entering the highest)Tj
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(realm of competition. Though far less physically challenging than their \
sports counterparts, student \223mathletes\224 also train for)Tj
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(\223The competition is really athletics of the mind,\224 said Visiting P\
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(competition will be aired in a taped, hour-long program on ESPN. The pro\
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(\223I got so caught up in the fun of the final round that I really wasn\222\
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(\223Now that we\222re in our 20th year, we can see in retrospect how the\
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(They enter a wide collection of fields and become engineers, doctors and\
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(and State Department are eligible to enter the MATHCOUNTS competition. T\
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(Student competitors also form teams representing their schools and enter\
chapter competitions. The best teams advance to)Tj
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(state competitions, and the four best individual mathletes from each sta\
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(Nearly 6,000 schools \(200 from Michigan\) participated in this year\222\
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(\223By the time these students reach the national competition, they have\
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