Columbia, South
Carolina: The
Spring Valley High School Quiz Bowl A team was selected as the National
Academic Quiz Tournaments High School Team of the Week for the week of March 18,
2017. The South Carolina State
Championship was Spring Valley’s first tournament ever, but they made a tremendous debut, winning all but one of their seven
preliminary games (and the loss, to Wade Hampton, was only by
10 points) and tying for fourth place overall. In doing so, they qualified
for the High School National Championship Tournament — a short
three-hour drive from home, in Atlanta.
Sophomore Isak Jatoi founded the team; he was
joined on the inaugural A team by senior Anson Bidwell,
junior Atifah Jatoi, sophomore Vikram Kumar, senior Breanna
Murrin, and senior and leading scorer Rishishankar Suresh.
Congratulations to Spring Valley!
ABOUT QUIZ BOWL
Quiz bowl is a competitive,
academic, interscholastic activity for teams of four students. Quiz
bowl teams use buzzers to answer
questions about science, math, history, literature, mythology,
geography, social science,
current events, sports, and popular culture. The matches feature a
blend of individual competition
and team collaboration, since no individual player is likely to be
an expert in all subject areas.
Participation in quiz bowl both reinforces lessons from the
classroom and encourages players
to develop new intellectual interests.
ABOUT NAQT
National Academic Quiz
Tournaments, founded in 1996, organizes the premier middle school,
high school, and college quiz
bowl championships in North America. In addition to its national
championships, NAQT provides
questions to invitational tournaments, league championships,
and television shows throughout
the year. NAQT operates out of the Twin Cities and Kansas
City, but its members mentor
coaches, host tournaments, volunteer their services, and share
their expertise across the United
States.
CONTACT NAQT
R. Robert Hentzel, President:
robert.hentzel@naqt.com
Jeff Hoppes, Vice President for
Communications: jeff.hoppes@naqt.com
1-888-411-6278 (“NAQT”)
www.naqt.com