Princeton

Princeton University
Location: Princeton, NJ
Current President or Coach	Jack Edmondson, Nathaniel Hull
National championships	NAQT Undergraduate: 2000, 2001, 2002. NAQT Division II: 1999
NAQT Page	Princeton+University&city=&state=&country= link

Princeton University is an Ivy League institution in Princeton, New Jersey, with one of the oldest quiz bowl clubs in existence.

History

Princeton has a lengthy though obscure history of participation in College Bowl. It is known that the club lost to Agnes Scott College in a 1966 episode of the TV program, and that it placed at 4th at CBI nationals in 1984, earning a plate that, though once having been thought to be stowed away in the club's trophy hoard, has unfortunately gone missing.

With the arrival of Jeff Stewart from BYU around 1994, Princeton's previously CBI-only program began attending and hosting ACF events. Princeton deaffiliated from CBI after the 1996-1997 school year.

Princeton has, in the past, been relatively competitive on the national circuit. Led by Jeff Hoppes, Princeton won the Undergraduate title at ICT from 2000-2, and won an unofficial ACF Undergraduate title in 2000 and 2002. Since then, it has not won any national titles.

According to an NAQT interview with Patrick Matthews, Princeton and Penn had a "mostly friendly" rivalry in the College Bowl era, where Penn eliminated Princeton from qualifying for CBI NCT at the ACUI Regionals four years in a row.

Tournament Hosting

Years ago, Princeton hosted PARFAIT, which was originally a packet submission tournament and later became a house written tournament. Previous Princeton college tournaments included Buzzerfest (1997-2004) and the Orville Redenbacher Invitational (c. 1996-1997).

Today, Princeton hosts an annual high school tournament, traditionally using NAQT packets. The tournament has done so well in some years that it attracted teams from as far away as Detroit Central Catholic, and had as many as 69 teams in attendance. Other years, though, the tournament has had numerous issues, most notably in the form of major delays. Later tournaments had buzzer sets break mid-tournament and some schools leave halfway through without notifying the Tournament Director.

Princeton has also hosted other college events like WAO II

Recently, Princeton's club has collaborated with Rutgers to host the New Jersey NAQT State Championship.

Controversy

Princeton and Rutgers' decision to cancel going to ACF Regionals 2007 at Maryland controversially turned that tournament into a farce, consisting only of VCU, two house teams, and a high school team. As a result, a long argument between Matt Weiner, members of the Princeton team, and others flared up on the message boards in this thread.

Former Members

Members with bolded names served as club president.

• Dan Benediktson
• Michael Chiswick-Patterson
• Peter Coles
• Jeff Crean
• Ben Davenport
• Ross Fisher
• Chris Frankel
• Faith Hillis
• Jason Golfinos (2015-16)
• Jeff Hoppes (2000-2002)
• Ben Horwich (1998-1999)
• David Isaacson
• Larissa Kelly
• Brad Klein
• Lenny Kostovetsky (2002-2003)
• Steve Lawrie (1999-2000)
• Bruce Lin
• David Madden
• Ben Malkevitch
• Jacob Mikanowski
• Matt Morris
• David Sachs
• Barbara Slote
• Charles Steinhardt
• Jeff Stewart
• Jen Wadsack
• Ray Yang

External Links

• Princeton Quiz Bowl Club Page
• Old Site

Title Succession

NAQT ICT Division I Undergraduate Champion
Preceded by	Year	Succeeded by
Carleton	2000, 2001, 2002	Harvard

NAQT ICT Division II Champion
Preceded by	Year	Succeeded by
Harvard	1999	Harvard

Unofficial title succession

ACF Nationals Undergraduate Champion
Preceded by	Year	Succeeded by
Texas	2000	Berry

ACF Nationals Undergraduate Champion
Preceded by	Year	Succeeded by
Berry	2002	Harvard

ACF Nationals Division II Champion
Preceded by	Year	Succeeded by
Arkansas	2000	Michigan

ACF Nationals Division II Champion
Preceded by	Year	Succeeded by
Texas A&M	2003	Harvard