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{{Highschoolteam|Name = Bellarmine College Preparatory
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|image = Bellarmine.jpeg
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|citystate = San Jose, CA
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|currentcoach = [[Chris Fleitas]] (2007-present) <br/> Joe Romano (Assistant Coach)
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|state = [[NAQT Northern California Championship|NorCal]] 2008, 2011, 2012, 2014
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|nats = [[2012 HSNCT]]
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|nats appearances = [[HSNCT]]: 2009-2015 <br/> [[PACE]]: 2011-2012, 2014-2015
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'''Bellarmine College Preparatory School''' is a Catholic private school located in San Jose, California.
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| width="160px"| <font style="font-size:9pt">'''Bellarmine College Preparatory'''</font>
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==Team history==
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The Bellarmine quizbowl team began in 2007, playing various tournaments of poor quality. During its first full year of good quizbowl, 2008-09, Bellarmine's two teams made the second round of the [[2009 HSNCT]] playoffs. The next year, Bellarmine took 4th at the [[2010 HSNCT]]. The year after that, Bellarmine took 3rd at the [[2011 HSNCT]] and (controversially) 6th at the [[2011 NSC]].
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The [[2012 Bellarmine]] team was very successful: A team of [[Ankit Aggarwal]], [[Sameer Rai]], [[Nikhil Desai]], and [[John Cherian]] won the [[2012 HSNCT]]. The team of Ankit, Sameer, and Nikhil placed 2nd in the [[2012 NSC]] and won [[NASAT]], besides doing very well at Bay Area college tournaments.
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Since that nationals run, Bellarmine has continued to field a strong quizbowl program with a number of [[HSNCT]] playoff appearances. Bellarmine is also a frequent host of quizbowl events in the Bay Area and a key part of the local [[circuit]].
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===Noted Alumni===
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*[[Matt Menard]]
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*[[Tanay Kothari]]
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*[[Nikhil Desai]]
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*[[Ankit Aggarwal]]
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*[[Sameer Rai]]
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==Tournament Results==
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===2012-13 Academic Year===
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{| border="1" cellspacing="0"
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! Date
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! Tournament
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! Question Set
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! Team
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! Record
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! Rank
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! Stats
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|rowspan="3"| 10/14
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|rowspan="3"| BAAL Battle of Hastings
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|rowspan="3"| NAQT IS 118
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| A
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| 7-0
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| 1/7
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| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1113/stats/varsity/teamdetail/#t0]
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|-
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| B
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| 5-2
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| 2/7
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| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1113/stats/varsity/teamdetail/#t1]
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|-
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| C
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| 4-2
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| 3/7
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| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1113/stats/varsity/teamdetail/#t2]
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|-
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|rowspan="2"| 12/08
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|rowspan="2"| Cal Classic
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|rowspan="2"| NAQT IS-120
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| A
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| 7-2
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| 3/10
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| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1206/stats/all_games/teamdetail/#t4]
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|-
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| B
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| 5-4
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| 5/10
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| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1206/stats/all_games/teamdetail/#t5]
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|-
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|rowspan="3"| 1/12
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|rowspan="3"| Bellarmine Novice
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|rowspan="3"| SCOP Novice
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| A
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| 5-3
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| 8/15
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| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1228/stats/all_games/teamdetail/#t2]
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| B
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| 4-4
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| 13/15
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| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1228/stats/all_games/teamdetail/#t3]
 
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| C
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| 2-4
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| 9/15
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| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1228/stats/all_games/teamdetail/#t4]
 
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! align=center colspan=2| Location: <br> San Jose, CA
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|rowspan="2"| 1/19
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|rowspan="2"| NEGBAIT
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|rowspan="2"| LIST
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| A
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| 6-4
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| 2/8
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| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1248/stats/all_games/teamdetail/#t1]
 
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|'''Coach'''|| Chris Fleitas
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| B
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| 4-6
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| 6/8
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| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1248/stats/all_games/teamdetail/#t2]
 
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|'''State championships'''|| NorCal 2008
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|rowspan="2"| 2/10
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|rowspan="2"| Golden Bear Invitational
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|rowspan="2"| GSAC
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| A
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| 8-2
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| 3/12
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| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1266/stats/all_games/teamdetail/#t3]
 
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|'''Notable national results'''|| 4th at [[2010 HSNCT]]
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| B
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3rd at [[2011 HSNCT]]
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| 5-5
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| 4/12
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| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1266/stats/all_games/teamdetail/#t4]
 
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| 2/23
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| Texas Invitational
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| NAQT DI SCT
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| A
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| 5-10
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| 11/16
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| [http://people.tamu.edu/~seamus/full_report_15_rounds_teamdetail.html#t1]
 
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| 2/24
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| ACF Regionals Texas
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| ACF Regionals
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| A
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| 11-1
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| 1/16
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| [http://www.texasquizbowl.org/d/@130222TI4_ACF/13TIACF_teamdetail.html#t8]
 
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Bellarmine College Preparatory School is a Catholic private school located in San Jose, California.
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==External links==
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*[http://www.bcp.org/ Official page]
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==Team history==
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*[http://www.naqt.com/stats/school.jsp?org_id=65395 NAQT page]
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellarmine_College_Preparatory Wikipedia entry]
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===2007-08===
 
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The Bellarmine team began in 2007, competing at only a few local tournaments on mostly [[NAQT]] A-level sets. (The relative unfamiliarity of the Bay Area with non-NAQT formats has meant that NAQT sets have formed the majority of the team's tournament experience. Until he played [[ACF Regionals]] at Stanford in the February of his senior year, team captain [[Tanay Kothari]] had never played a non-NAQT tournament.)
 
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Bellarmine's A team consisted of seniors [[Matt Menard]] and Raphael Murillo, junior James Hill III, and freshman Tanay Kothari. Matt, who later went on to [[Chicago]], led Bellarmine's scoring throughout the year.
 
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===2008-09===
 
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Freshmen [[Nikhil Desai]] and [[Ankit Aggarwal]] and sophomore Phillip Yakushev joined the team in the fall of 2008. Nikhil and Ankit's first tournament was Stanford's [[Cardinal Junior Classic]], an A-set tournament at which [[Mission San Jose]] placed first, Bellarmine A (seniors Garrett Kingman and James Hill III, junior Vinayak Viswanadham, and Tanay), Harker placed third, and Bellarmine B (senior Nitin Egbert, sophomores Wyatt Nelson and Ben Gulmon, and Nikhil) placed fourth. After not playing any more quizbowl for four or five months, some team members played in the [[NAQT Northern California Championship]]; Bellarmine A (Garrett, Nitin, James, Vinay) took fifth, while Bellarmine B (senior Terry Drinkwater, and Ben, Phil, Ankit, and Nikhil) took second. A full-strength Bellarmine A  (including Tanay), along with Bellarmine B, competed at the [[2009 HSNCT]], where they tied for 43rd at HSNCT with Bellarmine A. Nikhil received a third place freshman award for scoring a whopping 21.7 points per game, getting an earth-shattering total of 1 power in the tournament.
 
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This year was the first year the team could be said to have started studying actively. While they remained practicing on old NAQT sets (not the best for studying), they learned about how to get better on questions and improve their knowledge in common questions and categories.
 
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===2009-10===
 
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Vinay, Tanay, Ben, Phil, Wyatt, and Nikhil formed a core of returning members in the 2009-10 season. Encouragingly, the team was ranked 26th (right below [[St. Anselm's]]) in the Morlan Preseason Rankings.
 
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Tanay and Nikhil both scored highly at early tournaments in November. Bellarmine won a tournament at [[Saratoga]] by beating 10 MSJ teams in a row, then played Cardinal Junior Classic, where it blew a lead of 230 - (-10) in the finals against MSJ A to take second. As it was still oblivious to general college quizbowl happenings in the Bay, the team missed out on [[ACF Winter]] at [[Stanford]], but did sign up for the Stanford mirror of [[T-Party]], where a team of Ankit, Phil, Nikhil and freshman John Cherian took last place at with a 2-10 record, eking out two wins over [[Case Western]] and [[Berkeley]] B and experiencing destruction at the hands of experienced quizbowlers such as [[Jeff Hoppes]], [[Andrew Yaphe]], and [[Mike Bentley]]. The team of Nikhil, Phil, Ankit, Vinay, and freshman Kshithij Shrinath then competed at the [[West Coast Invitational]], where it bafflingly finished second on both days. Finally, a team of Tanay, Nikhil, Ankit, Phil, and John traveled to the 2010 HSNCT, where it went 7-3 in the preliminary rounds. Though expected by most to place somewhere in the middle tier of playoff teams, the team somehow managed to beat [[Neil Gurram]]'s [[Detroit Country Day]] and [[Matt Jackson]]'s [[GDS]] in succession, before losing soundly to [[Maggie Walker]], [[State College]], and [[LASA]] to finish fourth. This was the highest finish of a Bay Area team in a national tournament in recent memory.
 
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The improvement of the team this year can be mainly attributed to all four members' discovery of the broader quizbowl community, the concept of writing questions, constant practice on [[scobowl]], and a higher level of practice on better sets than in previous years.
 
  
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In the summer, Tanay, Ankit, and Nikhil worked on [[BELFAST]].
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{{HSNCT Champions}}
  
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[[Category: NAQT HSNCT championship teams]]
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[[Category: Bellarmine]]

Latest revision as of 15:33, 22 June 2021

Bellarmine College Preparatory
Bellarmine.jpeg
Location:
San Jose, CA
Coaches Chris Fleitas (2007-present)
Joe Romano (Assistant Coach)
State Championships NorCal 2008, 2011, 2012, 2014
National Championships 2012 HSNCT
National Appearances HSNCT: 2009-2015
PACE: 2011-2012, 2014-2015
Program Status Unknown
School Size Unknown
NAQT Page link

Bellarmine College Preparatory School is a Catholic private school located in San Jose, California.

Team history

The Bellarmine quizbowl team began in 2007, playing various tournaments of poor quality. During its first full year of good quizbowl, 2008-09, Bellarmine's two teams made the second round of the 2009 HSNCT playoffs. The next year, Bellarmine took 4th at the 2010 HSNCT. The year after that, Bellarmine took 3rd at the 2011 HSNCT and (controversially) 6th at the 2011 NSC.

The 2012 Bellarmine team was very successful: A team of Ankit Aggarwal, Sameer Rai, Nikhil Desai, and John Cherian won the 2012 HSNCT. The team of Ankit, Sameer, and Nikhil placed 2nd in the 2012 NSC and won NASAT, besides doing very well at Bay Area college tournaments.

Since that nationals run, Bellarmine has continued to field a strong quizbowl program with a number of HSNCT playoff appearances. Bellarmine is also a frequent host of quizbowl events in the Bay Area and a key part of the local circuit.

Noted Alumni

Tournament Results

2012-13 Academic Year

Date Tournament Question Set Team Record Rank Stats
10/14 BAAL Battle of Hastings NAQT IS 118 A 7-0 1/7 [1]
B 5-2 2/7 [2]
C 4-2 3/7 [3]
12/08 Cal Classic NAQT IS-120 A 7-2 3/10 [4]
B 5-4 5/10 [5]
1/12 Bellarmine Novice SCOP Novice A 5-3 8/15 [6]
B 4-4 13/15 [7]
C 2-4 9/15 [8]
1/19 NEGBAIT LIST A 6-4 2/8 [9]
B 4-6 6/8 [10]
2/10 Golden Bear Invitational GSAC A 8-2 3/12 [11]
B 5-5 4/12 [12]
2/23 Texas Invitational NAQT DI SCT A 5-10 11/16 [13]
2/24 ACF Regionals Texas ACF Regionals A 11-1 1/16 [14]

External links

NAQT High School National Championship Tournament Champions

1999-2008
1999: Detroit Catholic Central  · 2000: State College A  · 2001: Detroit Catholic Central  · 2002: St. John's  · 2003: Thomas Jefferson  · 2004: Thomas Jefferson  · 2005: Thomas Jefferson  · 2006: Richard Montgomery  · 2007: Maggie Walker  · 2008: Thomas Jefferson
2009-2019
2009: Wilmington Charter  · 2010: Maggie Walker  · 2011: State College A  · 2012: Bellarmine A  · 2013: LASA A  · 2014: LASA A · 2015: Arcadia A  · 2016: Hunter A  · 2017: Hunter A  · 2018: Plano West A  · 2019: Beavercreek
2021-
2021: Barrington  · 2022: Detroit Catholic Central A  · 2023: Barrington A  · 2024: Barrington
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