With its championship win at the Lewis & Clark Conference Scholar Bowl, the Scholar Bowl team from Schuyler R-1 School in Queen City proved themselves worthy to play on a national stage. On Friday, April 25, the team will represent their school in a 148-team national competition: National Academic Quiz Tournaments’ Small School National Championship Tournament.
Quiz bowl is a competitive, academic, interscholastic activity for teams of four students. It is the national version of the game that is often locally called Scholar Bowl. 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.
This will be Schuyler’s first time attending the Small School National Championship Tournament. In 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2017, 2016, and 2014 they qualified but were not able to attend.
The SSNCT is the only quiz bowl national championship pitting small schools against each other. It has one division containing non-selective public schools with 500 or fewer students in their top three grades, and another division for other schools with 350 or fewer students in their top three grades. Schuyler may face a familiar foe in Rosemont, as Hallsville will also be attending.
The team, in the Traditional Public Schools Division, will be captained by Carter Hoffmeyer, who will be joined by Asher Applegate, Jaxson Kaden, and Deacon Schoonover. The team will be coached by Ryan Kaden and Jamie Morlan.
Tournament results will be updated throughout the three days of competition at http://www.naqt.com/go/stats/16001 so everyone can follow along and see how the team does. You can also follow #ssnct on Instagram.
