visit Costa Rica, or in past and recent years, Spain, as part of a language and culture immersion trip abroad. Similarly, top students in French have the opportunity to visit Quebec City, and top students in Mandarin have the opportunity to visit Beijing, Jinhua, and Shanghai, China. Students in both schools have the additional opportunity to participate in their respective school's orchestra, band, or chorus. Sports Both schools field varsity teams in many sports, including cross-country running, soccer, basketball, track, field hockey, baseball, and softball. Extracurricular activities Led by coaches Sarah Doonan at Diamond and Joshua Frost and Jeffrey Woodcock at Clarke, Lexington's middle school math teams are renowned for their successes and mutual rivalry in competitions such as MathCounts, the NEML, the American Mathematics Competitions (AMC), and in the Intermediate Math League of Eastern Massachusetts (IMLEM). Clarke's current run of seven consecutive IMLEM championships was immediately preceded by nine consecutive championships by Diamond. Two Lexington natives have won the Mathcounts national championship: Jonathan L. Weinstein in 1991 and Alec Sun in 2013. William Diamond Middle School has also won many second and third place titles at the Science Olympiads over the past few years. Both schools have a plethora of other clubs and teams. William Diamond Middle School The school is named after William Diamond, the 16-year-old drummer for the Lexington Minutemen during the Battle of Lexington and Concord. The current principal at Diamond is Marlon Davis, and the assistant principals are Bayard Klimasmith and Elizabeth Sharp. The current names of the 6th grade teams are Innovator, Pathfinder, Adventurer, and Discoverer. The 7th Grade Teams are named Determination, Fortitude, Resilience, and Tenacity. the 8th grade teams are named Alliance, Fusion, Harmony, and Unity. Along with many other extra-curricular activities, Diamond has a school newspaper, called the "Diamond Dispatch", which is run by the students and a 6th grade English teacher. In addition, a fall play and musical are staged every year in the fall and winter respectively. Both productions are collaborated upon by the drama and technical departments, with the addition of the chorus department for the musical. Students have the option of auditioning for the cast or applying for the stage crew. Although Diamond does not have a formal student-run government, the Student Council determines spirit days, fundraisers, and other matters. Many of the 7th and 8th grade French and Spanish classes compete in the National French Exam