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'''Adlai E. Stevenson High School''' is a public high school in Lincolnshire, Illinois.  It currently competes as a member of the North Suburban League (NSL). It also competes in Class AA, the "large school" division, of the Illinois High School Association's (IHSA) State Championship Series. The current head coach is [[Ryan Fedewa]], assisted by coach Peter Anderson. Stevenson placed second at the [[2016 NSC]].  
 
'''Adlai E. Stevenson High School''' is a public high school in Lincolnshire, Illinois.  It currently competes as a member of the North Suburban League (NSL). It also competes in Class AA, the "large school" division, of the Illinois High School Association's (IHSA) State Championship Series. The current head coach is [[Ryan Fedewa]], assisted by coach Peter Anderson. Stevenson placed second at the [[2016 NSC]].  
  
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==Current Players==
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==History==
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*[[Ali Saeed]]
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===2013-2014===
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*[[Kazuma Shimanaka]]
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Stevenson placed 5th at the [[2014 HSNCT]] and 10th at the [[2014 NSC]], led by seniors [[Jason Asher]] and Jeeho Lee.
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*[[Marco Laudati]]
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===2014-2015===
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*[[Nathan Cha]]
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Following the graduation of many key members of the successful 2013-2014 team, now-senior Jonathan Mishory assumed the role of captain. Ambitious sophomores [[Ali Saeed]] and Nathan Cha "accidentally" ambled into varsity practice, joined by their graduating JV captain Marco Laudati. Spurred by their desire to impress [[girls]], the younger players began studying intently ([[Protobowl]]). The studying finally paid off at their first tournament, a 2014 [[Harvard Fall Tournament | Harvard Fall]] mirror, where, despite finishing [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/2757/stats/ultra-competitive_with_finals/teamdetail/#t7 last place out of eight teams], they experienced the thrill of winning a game after their last round opponent failed to show up. Several months later, Stevenson placed 8th at the 2015 [[Illinois NAQT State Championship]], where they began a longstanding tradition of eating [[Panda Express]] for lunch and tanking afternoon rounds.
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*[[Young Fenimore Lee]]
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*[[Conrad Oberhaus]]
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'''[[2015 HSNCT]]''' - Stevenson was divided into A and B teams, not determined by strength; the A team was comprised of graduating seniors, while the B team was organized as a preview for next year. Stevenson B accomplished its sole objective of powering every rock music question after Ali converted an Eric Clapton tossup before the first clue finished being read. Eventually both teams finished 53rd, although Stevenson B powered nearly twice as many times as Stevenson A.
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*[[Deepak Moparthi]]
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*[[Shamsheer Rana]]
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'''[[2015 NSC]]''' - The team finished 42nd, joined for the first time by [[Young Fenimore Lee]], a small Korean boy with a big heart.
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*[[Alec Gregory Smith]]
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*[[Olivia Lamberti]]
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===2015-2016===
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Stevenson entered the season with a signature blend of lofty goals and little motivation to study. The primary objective for the year was established: Ali would not score a majority of the team's points at a tournament. While not much was expected of Stevenson in a region predicted to be dominated by [[Hinsdale Central]] and [[Rockford Auburn]], the team eventually finished with a winning record against every team in Illinois aside from Hinsdale Central, anomalously Barrington, and anomalouslier [[UChicago Lab]]. During the season, they attended several tournaments under the pseudonym Willow Tree (after a metaphysical being who manifested herself to various members of the team). However, the Stevenson team became characterized by high power counts and extremely low PPBs, leading them to drop to 32nd in [[HSQBRank]]'s [https://hsqbrank.com/2016/05/26/2016-pre-nationals-quiz-bowl-rankings-top-200/#more-677 2016 Pre-National Ranking].
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'''2016 [[National History Bee and Bowl | NHBB]]''' - The second scorer position for Stevenson was occupied by history specialist [[Kazuma Shimanaka]]. A grizzled WWII veteran, Kazuma was destined to lead his team to victory, in normal circumstances. Instead, Stevenson was forced to join a group of underage quizbowl players in order to perform [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXUfubInNSY an experimental lewd act on camera]. In what may have been the first official quizbowl threeway, Stevenson was defeated, finishing 9th in the National History Bowl. Kazuma was a History Bee semifinalist, Ali was a quarterfinalist.
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'''[[2016 HSNCT]]''' - During the season, the Stevenson team had struggled on NAQT format questions and other low-quality trivia sets in general, so expectations for HSNCT were meager. However, the team finished 8-2 after prelims, only incurring loses to DCC B, and, of course, Hinsdale Central. Eventually, Stevenson placed 13th at HSNCT and second-to-last place in the 2016 [[ACRONYM]] trash tournament that followed.
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'''[[2016 NSC]]''' - This tournament would be the last for graduating seniors Kazuma and Marco, who formed the Stevenson A team along with juniors Ali and Young. They went undefeated through prelims and finished with the 2nd most powers in the field, behind Chattahoochee. However, their playoff bracket featured [[LASA]], [[Chattahoochee]], [[Rancho Bernardo]], [[IMSA]], and the [[Early College at Guilford]]. Only 2 teams could advance to the first bracket in Sunday's superplayoffs (for places 1-8). After a logistical error, Stevenson had to start the playoffs against IMSA on a replacement packet, which featured the tossups deemed not quite good enough for the actual set. The team lost the first game of the playoffs, and it seemed doubtful they could advance. They proceeded to defeat Early College A but lose to LASA. They defeated Rancho Bernardo after Ali powered a tiebreaker tossup on "Mrs. Dalloway." Finally, they defeated Chattahoochee by 10 points, upon the resolution of a protest claiming that "The Birds" should be an acceptable answer for Audubon's book "The Birds of America." As the dust cleared, Stevenson and Chattahoochee were tied for second place in the bracket, while LASA won outright. The two tied teams assembled to play a half-packet tiebreaker. Things started out well for Stevenson as Young powered the first tossup on pianos, Ali powered the next on Michel de Montaigne, and Kazuma firstlined the fourth on Draco by somehow knowing that he "died at a theater in Aegina, where he was suffocated by cloaks and hats thrown at him by adoring supporters." Stevenson won the game after another Chattahoochee protest was denied. Stevenson had made it to the top bracket, and each player was content with the expectation to lose every remaining game.
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What happened on Sunday was instead a decisive 5 game win streak. The day started out with a match against [[Thomas Jefferson]], the runners up at the previous week's HSNCT. Highlighted by powering 7 tossups in a row on The Importance of Being Earnest, Heraclitus, pillars, magnetic field, horse races, Solidarity, and string quartets, Stevenson earned a decisive victory. Second, they would play their usually victorious regional rival, Hinsdale Central. However, this time Hinsdale was only able to answer 5 tossups, and Stevenson walked away victorious. Third, they would defeat DCC B in another close game decided after protests. Fourth, Stevenson defeated DCC A, in the game that would be DCC's lowest scoring of the tournament. Finally, Stevenson defeated another regional competitor, Rockford Auburn, who had earlier eliminated them from HSNCT. However, Stevenson lost the sixth and final game to [[Canyon Crest]], after nerves got the best of them. Only after that game did they learn that they had already clinched a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLYdON-JUL0 disadvantaged final against LASA].
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Stevenson rooted for LASA to deservedly win the finals and were relieved when they did. This was already the only occasion in which an Illinois team had made a national final. After the awards ceremony, Ali was drafted last out of the 6 players for the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA_7YF6YbeM all-star game], but he finished with the second most points and led his team to victory. As the tournament ended, Stevenson realized that they had at last fulfilled their primary objective: Kazuma, Young, and Marco had, for the first time, scored a majority of the team's points.
  
 
==Noted Team Accomplishments==
 
==Noted Team Accomplishments==
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*[[PACE NSC]] runners-up: 2016
 
*[[NAQT Illinois Championship]] champions: 2005, 2006, 2011
 
*[[NAQT Illinois Championship]] champions: 2005, 2006, 2011
 
*[[NAQT Illinois Championship]] runners-up: 2014
 
*[[NAQT Illinois Championship]] runners-up: 2014

Revision as of 15:00, 10 July 2016

Stevenson Patriots
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Location:
Lincolnshire, Illinois
Coaches Ryan Fedewa
State Championships 2000 IHSA, 2000 Masonic tournament, 2005 IHSA, 2005 NAQT, 2006 NAQT, 2010 IHSA, 2010 NAQT, 2011 Masonic tournament
National Appearances HSNCT: 2005, 2006, 2010-2016
NSC: 2001, 2010-2016
Program Status active
School Size 4000
NAQT Page link
There are other schools named Stevenson; this article is about the one most notable in quizbowl.

Adlai E. Stevenson High School is a public high school in Lincolnshire, Illinois. It currently competes as a member of the North Suburban League (NSL). It also competes in Class AA, the "large school" division, of the Illinois High School Association's (IHSA) State Championship Series. The current head coach is Ryan Fedewa, assisted by coach Peter Anderson. Stevenson placed second at the 2016 NSC.

History

2013-2014

Stevenson placed 5th at the 2014 HSNCT and 10th at the 2014 NSC, led by seniors Jason Asher and Jeeho Lee.

2014-2015

Following the graduation of many key members of the successful 2013-2014 team, now-senior Jonathan Mishory assumed the role of captain. Ambitious sophomores Ali Saeed and Nathan Cha "accidentally" ambled into varsity practice, joined by their graduating JV captain Marco Laudati. Spurred by their desire to impress girls, the younger players began studying intently (Protobowl). The studying finally paid off at their first tournament, a 2014 Harvard Fall mirror, where, despite finishing last place out of eight teams, they experienced the thrill of winning a game after their last round opponent failed to show up. Several months later, Stevenson placed 8th at the 2015 Illinois NAQT State Championship, where they began a longstanding tradition of eating Panda Express for lunch and tanking afternoon rounds.

2015 HSNCT - Stevenson was divided into A and B teams, not determined by strength; the A team was comprised of graduating seniors, while the B team was organized as a preview for next year. Stevenson B accomplished its sole objective of powering every rock music question after Ali converted an Eric Clapton tossup before the first clue finished being read. Eventually both teams finished 53rd, although Stevenson B powered nearly twice as many times as Stevenson A.

2015 NSC - The team finished 42nd, joined for the first time by Young Fenimore Lee, a small Korean boy with a big heart.

2015-2016

Stevenson entered the season with a signature blend of lofty goals and little motivation to study. The primary objective for the year was established: Ali would not score a majority of the team's points at a tournament. While not much was expected of Stevenson in a region predicted to be dominated by Hinsdale Central and Rockford Auburn, the team eventually finished with a winning record against every team in Illinois aside from Hinsdale Central, anomalously Barrington, and anomalouslier UChicago Lab. During the season, they attended several tournaments under the pseudonym Willow Tree (after a metaphysical being who manifested herself to various members of the team). However, the Stevenson team became characterized by high power counts and extremely low PPBs, leading them to drop to 32nd in HSQBRank's 2016 Pre-National Ranking.

2016 NHBB - The second scorer position for Stevenson was occupied by history specialist Kazuma Shimanaka. A grizzled WWII veteran, Kazuma was destined to lead his team to victory, in normal circumstances. Instead, Stevenson was forced to join a group of underage quizbowl players in order to perform an experimental lewd act on camera. In what may have been the first official quizbowl threeway, Stevenson was defeated, finishing 9th in the National History Bowl. Kazuma was a History Bee semifinalist, Ali was a quarterfinalist.

2016 HSNCT - During the season, the Stevenson team had struggled on NAQT format questions and other low-quality trivia sets in general, so expectations for HSNCT were meager. However, the team finished 8-2 after prelims, only incurring loses to DCC B, and, of course, Hinsdale Central. Eventually, Stevenson placed 13th at HSNCT and second-to-last place in the 2016 ACRONYM trash tournament that followed.

2016 NSC - This tournament would be the last for graduating seniors Kazuma and Marco, who formed the Stevenson A team along with juniors Ali and Young. They went undefeated through prelims and finished with the 2nd most powers in the field, behind Chattahoochee. However, their playoff bracket featured LASA, Chattahoochee, Rancho Bernardo, IMSA, and the Early College at Guilford. Only 2 teams could advance to the first bracket in Sunday's superplayoffs (for places 1-8). After a logistical error, Stevenson had to start the playoffs against IMSA on a replacement packet, which featured the tossups deemed not quite good enough for the actual set. The team lost the first game of the playoffs, and it seemed doubtful they could advance. They proceeded to defeat Early College A but lose to LASA. They defeated Rancho Bernardo after Ali powered a tiebreaker tossup on "Mrs. Dalloway." Finally, they defeated Chattahoochee by 10 points, upon the resolution of a protest claiming that "The Birds" should be an acceptable answer for Audubon's book "The Birds of America." As the dust cleared, Stevenson and Chattahoochee were tied for second place in the bracket, while LASA won outright. The two tied teams assembled to play a half-packet tiebreaker. Things started out well for Stevenson as Young powered the first tossup on pianos, Ali powered the next on Michel de Montaigne, and Kazuma firstlined the fourth on Draco by somehow knowing that he "died at a theater in Aegina, where he was suffocated by cloaks and hats thrown at him by adoring supporters." Stevenson won the game after another Chattahoochee protest was denied. Stevenson had made it to the top bracket, and each player was content with the expectation to lose every remaining game.

What happened on Sunday was instead a decisive 5 game win streak. The day started out with a match against Thomas Jefferson, the runners up at the previous week's HSNCT. Highlighted by powering 7 tossups in a row on The Importance of Being Earnest, Heraclitus, pillars, magnetic field, horse races, Solidarity, and string quartets, Stevenson earned a decisive victory. Second, they would play their usually victorious regional rival, Hinsdale Central. However, this time Hinsdale was only able to answer 5 tossups, and Stevenson walked away victorious. Third, they would defeat DCC B in another close game decided after protests. Fourth, Stevenson defeated DCC A, in the game that would be DCC's lowest scoring of the tournament. Finally, Stevenson defeated another regional competitor, Rockford Auburn, who had earlier eliminated them from HSNCT. However, Stevenson lost the sixth and final game to Canyon Crest, after nerves got the best of them. Only after that game did they learn that they had already clinched a disadvantaged final against LASA.

Stevenson rooted for LASA to deservedly win the finals and were relieved when they did. This was already the only occasion in which an Illinois team had made a national final. After the awards ceremony, Ali was drafted last out of the 6 players for the all-star game, but he finished with the second most points and led his team to victory. As the tournament ended, Stevenson realized that they had at last fulfilled their primary objective: Kazuma, Young, and Marco had, for the first time, scored a majority of the team's points.

Noted Team Accomplishments

  • PACE NSC runners-up: 2016
  • NAQT Illinois Championship champions: 2005, 2006, 2011
  • NAQT Illinois Championship runners-up: 2014
  • IHSA Regional Titles (7): 2001, 03-05, 07-10
  • IHSA Sectional Titles (10): 1992, 96, 98, 2000-01, 03-05, 08-10
  • IHSA Championship Tournament Champions: 2000, 2005, 2010
  • IHSA Championship Tournament Runner-Up: 2004, 08
  • IHSA Championship Tournament Third Place: 1999, 2001, 2009

IHSSBCA Individual Awards

The following were honored by the Illinois High School Scholastic Bowl Coaches Association (IHSSBCA) for outstanding play through their All-Sectional/All-State Program. Each sectional comprises roughly 24 geographically concentrated teams, and thus roughly 125 starting players. Through the 2006-07 season, the top ten players were recognized in each sectional,(starting with 2007-08, the number was raised to 15) with teams restricted to no more than two nominations (three nominations starting in 2007-08). There are twenty All-State awards given each year (10 First Team, 10 Second Team) in each of Illinois' two classes.

All-Sectional Honorees

All-State Honorees

Playing for Team Illinois

Other Notable Alumni



IHSA State Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
IMSA
2000
IMSA
Illinois Masonic State Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Moline
2000
Salem
IHSA State Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Wheaton North
2005
William Fremd
Illinois NAQT State Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
n/a
2005, 2006
New Trier
IHSA State Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Carbondale
2010
IMSA
Illinois Masonic State Tournament Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
St. Ignatius
2011
IMSA
Illinois NAQT State Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Auburn
2011
Auburn
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