This past Saturday, the quiz bowl team braved the melty snow and the parade traffic to participate in VCU’s annual winter tournament.\u00a0 Our goal was to qualify both our A and B teams for the national championship in Atlanta over Memorial Day weekend.\u00a0 To do this, both teams would need to place in the top 6 out of a 36-team field!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We also fielded two teams in the JV division, including some students who have never competed before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am happy to report that our A team (Bladen Kidd, Rohan Neelakantan, Bridget Finley, David Chen) placed 3rd,<\/sup>\u00a0and our B team (David Lins, Serine Oh, Skanda Azhagappan, Jaanvi Kanda) placed 5th!\u00a0 Both teams have qualified for Nationals!<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the JV division, our C and D teams also played really well.\u00a0 Our C team (Collette Kim, Aditya Singhal, Aarav Saxena, Kennedy Greene, Reagan Shell, Eleanor Chin) placed 10th,<\/sup>\u00a0and our D team (Rohan Rajguru, Sage Smith, David Yeager, Thomas Cyrus, Urvika Bansal) placed 12th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the JV division, we had three individual players earn book awards for their high scores. Collette Kim was the 3rd<\/sup> highest scoring individual player in the whole division, and Rohan Rajguru and Sage Smith were also in the top 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the National division, Rohan Neelakantan, David Lins, and Bladen Kidd were all honored with book awards for being in the top 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please congratulate these students when you get a chance!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Adam Rotche, Scholastic Bowl Head Coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This past Saturday, the quiz bowl team braved the melty snow and the parade traffic to participate in VCU’s annual winter tournament.\u00a0 Our goal was to qualify both our A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":393330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"default","_twitter_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type":"default","_pinterest_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"default","_medium_share_type":"default","_threads_share_type":"default","_google_business_share_type":"default","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n