Hinsdale Central

Hinsdale Central Red Devils
Location: Hinsdale, Illinois
Coaches	Alan McCloud
State Championships	1992 IHSA
Program Status	Unknown
School Size	Unknown
NAQT Page	link

Hinsdale Central High School is a public high school in Hinsdale, Illinois, near Chicago. It competes in Class AA, the "large school" division, of the Illinois High School Association's (IHSA) State Championship Series.

The team was coached by Donna Watkins throughout the 1990s and for a few additional years. Under her, the team won the 1992 IHSA State Championship and finished 2nd in 1998 and 2002. The team has never entered a large number of invitationals--most of its matches are played within the West Suburban Conference.

2013-2014 Players

Freshmen (2017)

Atharv Garje

Ayan Agarwal

Harrison Wang

Peyton Pielet

Sophomores (2016)

Sunny Chen

James Zhou

Andrew Coyner

Jack Mueller

Hugo Zoells

BJ Ryan

Ankush Bajaj

Steven Botsoe

Anika Arvanitis

Ian Sokolowski

Nikolai Vorobiev

Juniors (2015)

None

Seniors (2014)

None

History

While the school has had a string of conference, sectional, and regional titles since its state championship in 1992, Hinsdale Central has not played a major role in the Illinois Quizbowl scene in a while.

Starting in the 2013-2014 school year, with the graduation of its five solid Varsity seniors, Hinsdale Central was left with a large talent/age vacuum, due to weak retention of '14 and '15 players. Sophomore Sunny Chen, the only member to have gone to Ace over the summer, naturally stepped up to the leadership position.

The all sophomore and freshman team showed many signs of potential as the season went on, with decent placement and wins at major tournaments, many of which were attended unaffiliated.

IHSA State Champion
Preceded by	Year	Succeeded by
Centralia	1992	Quincy