Minnesota Teams Place Second and Fourth in the National Academic Championships.MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. -- The Quiz Bowl teams from Chaska high school Chaska High School (CHS) is a public high school located in Chaska, Minnesota, a southwestern suburb of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. CHS is a 10th-12 grade school; freshmen attend the nearby Pioneer Ridge Freshman Center. Nearly 2000 students attend CHS. and Saint Thomas Academy Saint Thomas Academy (abbr. St. Thomas Academy or STA), originally known as Saint Thomas Aquinas Seminary, and formerly known as Saint Thomas Military Academy is the only all male, Roman Catholic, college-preparatory, military high school in Minnesota. placed second and fourth, respectively, at the 24th annual National Academic Championships (NAC See network access control. ) which culminated in Chicago. The competition featured 101 of the best quiz bowl teams in the country. The competition takes place in three cities (San Antonio, Washington, D.C. and Chicago). The top teams from each phase of the tournament faced each other in a single elimination playoff on Monday, June 12th. Saint Thomas Academy was a finalist in the Chicago phase and Chaska was the winner of the D.C. phase. Perennial rivals Chaska and Saint Thomas Academy faced off in one semi-final match; two teams from Worchester County in New York faced off in the other semi-final. Chaska prevailed with a score of 390-280 and moved on to the final to face Byram Hills High School Byram Hills High School is a four-year co-educational public secondary school located in Armonk, New York. Its principal is Dr. William Donohue and its vice principals are Melissa Stahl and Vincent Vecchiariello. . Bryam Hills of Armonk, New York Armonk is a census-designated place (CDP) located in the town of North Castle in Westchester County, New York. As of the 2000 census, the CDP population was 3,461. Armonk is home to the headquarters of IBM. won the championship 450-305. The teams from Saint Thomas Academy and Chaska have challenged each other many times over the years, most recently in the Minnesota State Quiz Bowl Tournament and the TPT Face Off Championship, with Saint Thomas Academy winning both meetings. The Saint Thomas Academy Quiz Bowl team members are senior co-captains Jack Boyle (University of Dallas The University of Dallas is a Catholic institution. It seeks to educate its students to develop the intellectual and moral virtues, to prepare themselves for life and work, and to become leaders in the community. ) and Josh Mollner (Notre Dame), and juniors James Heaney, Nate Lysne, Tom Sullivan. The team coach is Jamie Jurkovich. Boyle and Mollner are the first players in NAC history to be on a championship team as sophomores and return to the "final four" as seniors. Saint Thomas Academy won the NAC in 2004, the only Minnesota school to win the tournament in its twenty-four year history. The Chaska Quiz Bowl team members are seniors captain Rob Carson (University of Minnesota (body, education) University of Minnesota - The home of Gopher. http://umn.edu/. Address: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. ), Andrew Guyton (Macalester), Andrew Hart (University of Minnesota), Jon Martin (University of Minnesota), and Sean Skaar (University of Minnesota). The team coach is Chris Lenius, with assistant coach Krista Hammann. Second place is Chaska's highest finish to date at the National Academic Championship. Tournament information: www.qunlimited.com |
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