Academic Challenge Teams Head to Nationals
For the first time ever, University School's Academic Challenge teams at both the middle and high school levels qualified for the National Academic Quiz Tournaments' national championships. In addition, sophomore Henry Massey, who has competed for US since the sixth grade, was invited to the individual elite level contest.
The 2018 High School National Championship Tournament, held in Atlanta in May, is NAQT’s premier high school event and features the top quiz bowl teams from across the United States and, increasingly, the world.
Because of his previous performance on quiz teams, Henry Massey was invited to compete at the inaugural NAQT Individual Player National Championship Tournament, held in Chicago in April. Henry began competing in sixth grade when he joined the US middle school Academic Challenge team. The Individual Player National Championship Tournament gives individual high school players a chance to see how their knowledge, reflexes, and anticipation stack up against those of other elite competitors.
Over the past four years Henry has attended over 10 tournaments, racking up multiple victories as a part of several different teams. In eighth grade he was the top scoring player of a qualifying tournament, and the US team was runner-up earning a spot at the NAQT Middle School National Championship for a second year in a row. "I am very thankful that this program exists at US due to how much I have learned, for the excellent coaching and advice I’ve received, and for the friends that I have been able to make," Henry said.
At the middle school qualifying tournament in late February, US took five teams - 18 seventh and eighth graders - and earned a combined W/L record of 28-14. Two of the 8-0 teams advanced to the final four (of 36 teams) and snagged two of only six national championship berths available. Fourteen boys will compete at the Middle School National Championship Tournament, NAQT's premier middle school event, in Chicago in May: eighth graders Arthur Li, Aiden Burkholder, Zach Sands, Nathan Mu, Dev Peyrat, Aetan Parmar, Leo Sherwood, Jason Williams, Carl Cort, and Suhas Cingireddi; and seventh graders Arveen Alaeddini, Braedon Olsen, Grayson Brooks, and Theo Moll.
Coach Chris Barton described how well the students represented US at the 10-hour qualifier, saying, "The guys embodied everything we expect and hope for in a US boy. They were enthusiastic yet polite, competitive but always sportsmanlike, super supportive of each other but equally as considerate to their opponents."
Congratulations to the teams and coaches!
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The 2018 High School National Championship Tournament, held in Atlanta in May, is NAQT’s premier high school event and features the top quiz bowl teams from across the United States and, increasingly, the world.
Because of his previous performance on quiz teams, Henry Massey was invited to compete at the inaugural NAQT Individual Player National Championship Tournament, held in Chicago in April. Henry began competing in sixth grade when he joined the US middle school Academic Challenge team. The Individual Player National Championship Tournament gives individual high school players a chance to see how their knowledge, reflexes, and anticipation stack up against those of other elite competitors.
Over the past four years Henry has attended over 10 tournaments, racking up multiple victories as a part of several different teams. In eighth grade he was the top scoring player of a qualifying tournament, and the US team was runner-up earning a spot at the NAQT Middle School National Championship for a second year in a row. "I am very thankful that this program exists at US due to how much I have learned, for the excellent coaching and advice I’ve received, and for the friends that I have been able to make," Henry said.
At the middle school qualifying tournament in late February, US took five teams - 18 seventh and eighth graders - and earned a combined W/L record of 28-14. Two of the 8-0 teams advanced to the final four (of 36 teams) and snagged two of only six national championship berths available. Fourteen boys will compete at the Middle School National Championship Tournament, NAQT's premier middle school event, in Chicago in May: eighth graders Arthur Li, Aiden Burkholder, Zach Sands, Nathan Mu, Dev Peyrat, Aetan Parmar, Leo Sherwood, Jason Williams, Carl Cort, and Suhas Cingireddi; and seventh graders Arveen Alaeddini, Braedon Olsen, Grayson Brooks, and Theo Moll.
Coach Chris Barton described how well the students represented US at the 10-hour qualifier, saying, "The guys embodied everything we expect and hope for in a US boy. They were enthusiastic yet polite, competitive but always sportsmanlike, super supportive of each other but equally as considerate to their opponents."
Congratulations to the teams and coaches!
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Coach Patrick Gallagher and the high school Academic Challenge Team: Warren Coleman '18, Henry Massey '20, Anthony Peng '20 and Clark Austin '18
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The middle school team gets ready for the contest.
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