Difference between revisions of "Ankush Bajaj"

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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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 {{Infobox|Name = Ankush Bajaj
-|Subjects = Philosophy, Hinduism, ''The Catcher in the Rye'', Plant biology
+|Subjects = Literature, Biology, Chemistry, Social Sciences
-|Image =
+|schoolcur = [[Brown]]
 |highschool = [[Hinsdale Central]]
 | }}
-Ankush Bajaj is a current sophomore high school player at [[Hinsdale Central]] High School in Hinsdale, Illinois, and is typically the 2nd or 3rd scorer on the A team. While he claims his deep spiritual connection to Hinduism is what enables him to first-line Hinduism questions, Ankush is actually 3/8 Sikh and eats beef regularly.
+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.
-== Middle School ==
+== 2013-2014 ==
-Ankush's attempts to start a quiz bowl team at Butler did not produce results, though this time period was crucial in the blossoming of his love for Hinduism and science.
+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.
-== 2012-2013 ==
+== 2014-2015 ==
-Ankush began the year as a student at [[IMSA]], opting to skip freshman year as a 'shmen at the prestigious school. While he was there, he joined the quiz bowl team and went to several practices, though apparently most people were [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=14505#p269186 unaware] of that fact. After less than a month, Ankush and his mom made the decision to withdraw from the Academy and attend the area school, Hinsdale Central, for undisclosed reasons. Since that time, two possible hypotheses have arisen, in an attempt to explain why. One states that Hinsdale Central's math department heavily recruited Ankush for its math team, while another proposes that he simply chose Hinsdale because of its better quiz bowl team.
+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]]
-Whatever the reason, 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 somewhere between 5-8 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 stars. 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.
-== 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 ridicule and ranting, Ankush was reluctantly pushed into the spot of literature specialist, though he still frequently beats Sunny in biology and chemistry. In addition, he powers Mahabharatha 4 out of 5 times, and averages 27 ppb on Hinduism bonuses. Meanwhile, he has made significant progress in lit, as he actually read ''The Catcher in the Rye'', and has read the summaries for about 7 other books. Ankush's development as a lit player really strengthened the team, and marked the beginning of Hinsdale Central's rise to semi-prominence.
+== 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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