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Texas
Location: Austin, TX
Current President or Coach	Matt Nance
National championships
NAQT Page	link

The University of Texas is a large public university located in Austin, TX. Though technically not allowed to represent the University of Texas or to use its name, the UT quizbowl team has been known to occasionally appear at tournaments on the local and national circuit and even host such events without its parent university's knowledge.

History

It is unclear when UT Quizbowl was founded, as there are very few records and no one currently associated with the club remembers anything farther back than 1998. College Bowl records indicate that UT played CBI Regionals continuously from the '95-'96 season through the '00-'01 season, in which they won third place at the NCT. The '95-'97 teams were most likely led by Alfred Wallace, Suzy Rivoire, and Jennifer Hopens. It could be argued, however, that 1998, which saw the matriculation of Eric Smith, was the beginning of the modern era of UT Quizbowl.

After the departure of Smith for Stanford in '01, the team was led by Adam Escandell and Mengmeng Zhang for two years. UT's only nationals appearance in this period came at the '02 ICT, where they finished 17th in Division II.

2003 saw the arrival of current team leaders Eric Kwartler and Matt Nance. While the team failed to appear at any national tournaments that season, UT did become much more active on the local circuit, attending four tournaments and hosting two more. Since then, UT has attended 23 tournaments, six of them national tournaments and four of them circuit events outside the Southwest region.

Current Members

Ramesh Kannappan, Grad. Engineering.
Eric Kwartler, Law.
Caleb Lo, Grad. Engineering.
Mark Molaro, Engineering.
Matt Nance, Law.
Julia Rosinski, Engineering.

Former Members

More results coming later

1999-2000 Season

Tournament	Host	Date	Finish	Individual
NAQT SCT	University of Oklahoma	February 2000	Texas D1 - 4th, Texas D2 - 2nd	N/A
ACF Regionals	University of Oklahoma	February 2000	Texas A - 4th	Eric Smith - 3rd
NAQT ICT	Boston University	April 2000	Texas D1 - 14th, Texas D2 - 15th	N/A

1998-1999 Season

Tournament	Host	Date	Finish	Individual
Route 66	University of Oklahoma	October 1998	Texas A - 1st	N/A
NAQT Conference Championship	The University of Texas	November 1998	UT A - 1st	N/A
NAQT SCT	Wichita State University	February 1999	UT A - 1st	Eric Smith - 2nd, Jennifer Hopens - 3rd, Suzy Rivoire - 5th
ACF Regionals	Texas A&M University	February 1999	UT - 1st	N/A
ICT	University of Michigan	April 1999	UT - 15th	N/A
ACF Nationals	University of Chicago	April 1999	UT - 9th	N/A

Title succession

Unofficial title succession

ACF Nationals Undergraduate Champion

Preceded by

Year

Succeeded by

South Carolina

1999

Princeton

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 ==Current Members==
-* [[Ram Kannapan]], Grad. Engineering.
+* [[Ramesh Kannappan]], Grad. Engineering.
 * [[Eric Kwartler]], Law.
 * [[Caleb Lo]], Grad. Engineering.