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Texas Quiz Bowl Summer Camp
(13 spots remaining)

Texas Quiz Bowl is pleased to announced that it will host a Quiz Bowl camp this summer. The camp will be held at the Tradition in College Station between Sunday August 1st and Thursday August 5th. Registration for this camp is now available via email to romeroc at gmail dot com. This camp is an ideal way for students to improve their quiz bowl knowledge, strategy, and study skills. More details are available. A $50 discount is available for students who register and pay before June 15th. Registration is still open and the camp is expected to fill.

LASA 4th, Seven Lakes 18th at PACE's NSC

During the first weekend in June, the Liberal Arts and Sciences Academy (Austin ISD) and Seven Lakes High School (Katy ISD) represented the state of Texas at the Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence's National Scholastics Championship. LASA placed fourth and Seven Lakes placed eighteenth.


From left: LASA's Thomas Littrell, Benji Nguyen, Shen Gong, and Daniel Chupin

Four Texas Teams finish in Top 20 at NAQT's HSNCT

On Memorial Day weekend, 15 teams from Texas competed in NAQT's High School National Championship Tournament in Chicago. Four teams from three Texas schools placed in the top 20 included LASA (3rd & 11th), Seven Lakes (11th), and St. Marks (17th). Complete Statistics are available here. A summary of the placing of Texas teams is show below.
Team Place Coach
LASA A 3 Jason Flowers
Seven Lakes A 11 Chris Romero
LASA B 11 Jason Flowers
St. Marks 17 Paul Mlarkar
Cistercian A 43 Fr. Gregory Schweers
St. Johns 91 Ted Curry
LASA C 99 Jason Flowers
 
Franklin A 114 Rachel Anderson
Temple 115 Derek Parsons
Cistercian B 117 Fr. Gregory Schweers
Highland Park 118 Becky Weber
Prosper 125 Jason Taylor
Seven Lakes B 150 Chris Romero
Franklin B 198 Rachel Anderson
Franklin C 200 Rachel Anderson

Inaugural TQBA Middle School State Championship

Congratulations to Kealing Middle School from Austin who won the TQBA Middle School State Championship on May 1st in Katy. Nathan Weiser, Arnav Sastry, Advaitn Anand, and Stephen Ngo were the players that made up the championship team. Kealing is coached by Patty Hill. Congratulations to Carlo DeGuzman (Katy-Beck), Corin Wagen (Kealing), Nathan Weiser (Kealing), and Katie Butler (Houston-Duchesne) who were on the all-tournament team as the day's highest scorers. Full Statistics are available.

2010 Texas All-State Team

The process of selecting a team of students to represent the Lone Star State in the National All-Star Academic Tournament hosted by High School Academic Pyramid Questions on June 12-13, 2010, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville began in September. After considering dozens of students from schools across the state, Texas Quiz Bowl is pleased to announce its 2010 All-State team. The team pictured below (from L to R) includes: Jiawei Li (Seven Lakes), Charlie Caplan (St. Johns), Thomas Littrell (LASA), Benji Nguyen (LASA), and Aaron Pellowski (LASA). Team members was chosen based on individual performances, dedication to quiz bowl, and willingness to play defined roles within a team concept. We wish this team the best of luck as it prepares to challenge for the All-Star National Championship in June. Additional pictures are available

 

11th Annual Texas Quiz Bowl State Championship

Congratulations to the Liberal Arts and Sciences Academy of Austin, Texas whose A team won the 11th annual Texas Quiz Bowl State Championship. The team, which was led by juniors Thomas Littrell and Benji Nguyen, won 10 matches and loss championship. The top individuals stats are available.

LASA A Students (from l to r): Benji Nguyen, Roger Cain, Thomas Littrell, Ben Goldstein, Matt Goodman and Coach Jason Flowers

 

2010 State Championship All-Tournament Teams

Varsity Team Varsity Underclassmen Team Junior Varsity Team
  • Thomas Littrell, LASA (2011)
  • Jiawei Li, Seven Lakes (2011)
  • Stewart MacDonald, St. Marks (2010)
  • Benji Nguyen, LASA (2011)
  • Shair Ahmed, St. Stephens (2012)
  • Andrew Clarkston, Lamar Consol. (2013)
  • Vimal Konduri, Cistercian (2013)
  • Jonathan Xu, Seven Lakes (2012)
  • Elliott Lapin, St. Johns (2012)
  • Ariel Smith, Kealing (2014)
  • Nathan Weiser, Kealing (2014)
  • Mitchell Weldon, Cistercian (2013)

 


2009-10 Official Texas Quiz Bowl Events

Date

Event

Location

Qs

V Winner

V 2nd

Teams

JV Winner

September 26, 2009

Texas Quiz Bowl Kickoff (stats)

Katy, Texas

86

LASA A    &     LASA B

17

St. Johns

October 17, 2009

Central Texas Open (stats)

Temple, Texas

88

St. Marks

Temple A

11

NA

January 23, 2010

Spartan Showdown (stats)

Katy, Texas

90

LASA B

LASA A   & Seven Lakes

21

NA

March 6, 2010

Texas State Championship (stats)

Temple, Texas

94

LASA A

LASA C   &
Seven Lakes
23 Cistercian

May 15, 2010

TQBA Pre-Nationals (stats)

Houston, Texas

TBA

Dorman LASA SCT DII NA

May 1, 2010

Middle School Texas State Championship (stats)

Katy, Texas

TBA

 Kealing A

Kealing B 

NA 

NA

 

 

Sponsors

Texas Quiz Bowl would like to thank
ZeeCraft Tech, the manufacturer
of the
Wireless Buzzer System, for its sponsorship

 

 


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