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Ankush Bajaj
Noted subjects	Literature, Biology, Chemistry, Social Sciences
Current college	Brown
High school	Hinsdale Central
Stats	HDWhite • NAQT

Ankush Bajaj is a student at Brown. He previously was the leading scorer on the A team for Hinsdale Central High School. He was named a member of the First team for the 2016 HSQBRank All-World Teams.

2012-2013

Ankush immediately joined Scholastic Bowl and made a very strong impression on everyone. He established himself as a decent JV player with potential to represent Hinsdale Central as an A team member during later seasons.

2013-2014

Ankush was undoubtedly one of the more committed members of the Hinsdale Central quiz bowl team. His development as a literature player greatly strengthened the team, and marked the beginning of Hinsdale Central's emergence out of mediocrity.

2014-2015

Following a disappointing personal performance at the 2014 HSNCT, Ankush decided to step up his studying over the summer and try to lock down all literature, biology, and chemistry. His progression from a decent literature and science specialist to a competent generalist allowed him to lead Hinsdale to a 2nd-place finish at the 2015 NAQT Illinois State Championship and a T-8th finish at the 2015 HSNCT. In this year, Ankush additionally qualified for the national Brain Bee

2015-2016

Ankush helped lead Hinsdale Central to a T-8th finish at the 2016 HSNCT and a 4th-place finish at the 2016 NSC. He helped Team Illinois to a first-place finish at the 2016 NASAT.

2016-2024

Ankush continued to play quizbowl at Brown, though not as actively as in high school; he did not participate in any national tournaments.

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-|Subjects = Computational math, Literature, Biology, Chemistry, Contemporary Cinema
+|Subjects = Literature, Biology, Chemistry, Social Sciences
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+|schoolcur = [[Brown]]
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-Ankush Bajaj is a current player at [[Hinsdale Central]] High School in the class of 2016.
+Ankush Bajaj is a student at [[Brown]]. He previously was the leading scorer on the A team for [[Hinsdale Central]] High School. He was named a  member of the First team for the 2016 [[HSQBRank All-World Teams]].
 == 2012-2013 ==
-Ankush immediately joined Scholastic Bowl and made a very strong impression on everyone; freshmen, seniors, and coaches alike; through engaging in capital city contests with [[B.J. Ryan]] and lecturing the freshmen on the biology topics that they had yet to cover in class. When the season finally began, Ankush opened with a bang, getting around 5 tossups over the first two matches against Leyden's and Downers Grove South's Junior Varsity teams. He immediately created buzz among the sophomore JV captains, who considered him and [[Sunny Chen]] (who had 8 tossups that day) as the definite superstars. Over the season, Ankush continued to experience success, enough so that he and Sunny Chen were moved up to Varsity for one meet, and they contributed in the wins against York and Willowbrook. As Hinsdale was rather inactive outside of the West Suburban Conference, the team only went to one tournament the whole year, [[Loyburn]]. At the tournament, the B team was composed of 7 freshmen, as the sophomore captains had mostly quit by then. During one very close match against Maine South B, Mr. McCloud told the team during a timeout to "go for the win" as opposed to balancing playing time, so it was arbitrarily decided that the winning formation, the "Big Three," would be Sunny, Ankush, and James Zhou. Going into the last question tied at 190, Sunny managed to get the last tossup, on painting, and the team ended up 30ing the bonus, probably its only 30 the entire tourney, and it ended up being Hinsdale Central B's only win in the morning. The team finished the day [http://www.ihssbca.org/statistics/2012_Loyburn/2012_Loyburn_combined_teamdetail.php#t5 4-7], though one loss against Stevenson B must have been lost. Ankush ended with [http://www.ihssbca.org/statistics/2012_Loyburn/2012_Loyburn_combined_playerdetail.php#p3_5 12.14 ppg] that day, and was very sad that computational math was not as popular outside of IHSA.
+Ankush immediately joined Scholastic Bowl and made a very strong impression on everyone. He established himself as a decent JV player with potential to represent Hinsdale Central as an A team member during later seasons.
 == 2013-2014 ==
-Ankush is undoubtedly one of the more committed members of the Hinsdale Central quiz bowl team, and after James did surprisingly well at Earlybird, his cockiness started to annoy and discourage Ankush. As a response to Sunny's ranting, Ankush was reluctantly pushed into the spot of literature specialist, though he still frequently dominates Sunny in biology and chemistry. In addition, he powers Mahabharatha 4 out of 5 times, and averages 27 ppb on Hinduism bonuses. Also, Ankush's development as a literature player really strengthened the team, and marked the beginning of Hinsdale Central's emergence out of mediocrity.
+Ankush was undoubtedly one of the more committed members of the Hinsdale Central quiz bowl team. His development as a literature player greatly strengthened the team, and marked the beginning of Hinsdale Central's emergence out of mediocrity.
 == 2014-2015 ==
-Following a disappointing personal performance at the [[2014 HSNCT]], Ankush decided to step up the studying over the summer and try to lock down all literature, biology, and chemistry. With the expectation that Ankush will carry the team, the rest of Hinsdale Central A has decided to temporarily stop studying.
+Following a disappointing personal performance at the [[2014 HSNCT]], Ankush decided to step up his studying over the summer and try to lock down all literature, biology, and chemistry. His progression from a decent literature and science specialist to a competent generalist allowed him to lead Hinsdale to a 2nd-place finish at the 2015 [[NAQT Illinois State Championship]] and a T-8th finish at the [[2015 HSNCT]]. In this year, Ankush additionally qualified for the national [[Brain Bee]]
+== 2015-2016 ==
+Ankush helped lead Hinsdale Central to a T-8th finish at the [[2016 HSNCT]] and a 4th-place finish at the [[2016 NSC]]. He helped Team Illinois to a first-place finish at the [[NASAT|2016 NASAT]].
+== 2016-2024 ==
+Ankush continued to play quizbowl at Brown, though not as actively as in high school; he did not participate in any national tournaments.
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