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| − | 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.
| + | Despite a string of conference, sectional, and regional titles since its state championship in 1992, Hinsdale Central historically has not interacted with the greater Illinois circuit. |
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| − | During the 2012-2013 school year, Hinsdale Central Varsity had many of its juniors on Varsity from the previous year return, boding for a strong conference season with many experienced players. Meanwhile, it recruited and retained for most of the year almost a dozen freshmen--all of them guys. These freshmen, along with about 3 or 4 sophomores who stayed on JV as captains, were very bright and covered a broad range of subjects.
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| − | On Varsity, the starting 4 seniors were Sagar Dommaraju, Max Rong, Gideon Ticho and Alex Newkirk, with senior Nina Tandle and sophomore Miguel Molina backing them up. They ended up breezing through West Suburban Conference play, going 11-1 with a close 290-270 loss to only [[OPRF]] in December, their 8th game. They ended the season as the outright conference champion, forgoing the conference tournament due to both scheduling and weather problems.
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| − | On JV, there were many freshmen vying for playing time. The players who remained for the entire year were Rohith Balusu, Jack Mueller, Sunny Chen, Ankush Bajaj, Andrew Coyner, James Zhou, BJ Ryan, Hugo Zoells, and Ben Anderson. Being all boys, this team was very immature and rowdy, often getting in trouble and making messes, though they were much more talented than their conference rivals. They coasted to a 12-0 undefeated record in conference play, almost always with very wide margins of victory. The JV team was the first West Suburban Conference team to go undefeated for almost a decade. Throughout the season, the JV players that were believed to show the most promise and given the most recognition were Ankush Bajaj and Sunny Chen, who played a few games for Varsity against easier conference rivals as a trial, since they were viewed as the future leaders for next year. Sunny was superior to all other freshmen, and ended up helping Varsity later in the season.
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| − | During the season, the Hinsdale Central teams went to only one tournament, [[Loyburn]], hosted by Rockford Auburn and Loyola Academy on December 15, 2012, entering an A and a B team. The A team roster was normal, though JV was missing its sophomore captains and some freshmen. While conference play was easy, both teams struggled at this tournament, showing just how weak the West Suburban Conference and both Hinsdale teams were in comparison to some of the better teams in the state. Both teams went 1-4 in the morning round, though the A team was placed in the second (out of three) playoff bracket and the B team was placed in the third. In the playoffs, Hinsdale A went 5-2, and Hinsdale B went 4-3. The top Varsity player was Max Rong, who ended up in 24th place with 37.73 ppg over 11 games, while the top JV players were Sunny Chen, 32nd with 31.43 ppg over 7 games, and Andrew Coyner, 37th with 26.67 ppg. Andrew's limited playing time was due to an argument between him and Sunny, which he protested by sitting out. The A team finished 6-5 for the day, while the B team finished 4-7.
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| − | Over the summer, Hinsdale did not actively coordinate any studying or practice, though Sunny went to ACE Quizbowl camp for the second summer in a row, and established himself as a very capable science player. Luckily, no players were lost to IMSA.
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| − | At the start of the 2013-2014 season, many people were recruited like last year, though only a small fraction remained. A potentially talented freshman quit because it was too hard, along with many other freshmen, leaving only three Class of 2017 players on the team by the end of September. Surprisingly, the number of new sophomores on the team was significantly greater than new freshman, more than replacing the other few sophomores who had quit. This year, under the strict guidance and leadership of Sunny Chen, the Hinsdale Central team began to actively seek to participate in tournaments, with Sunny making somewhat unsuccessful attempts to enforce a question-writing and studying rule on the participants. The season began much earlier this year, as the team went to UIUC Earlybird on October 5, 2013, with the only few players they could get: sophomores Ankush Bajaj, Sunny Chen, and James Zhou; and freshmen Harrison Wang and Ayan Agarwal. It was only the second tournament for the sophomores, and the first ever for the freshmen. Hinsdale came in with low expectations as it was very incomplete, but when they almost beat incomplete Fenton and IMSA A teams back-to-back in their only two morning losses with scores of 285-255 (due to a protest in Fenton's favor) and 280-255 respectively, it showed the team was not that bad. Due to Fenton having to leave, Hinsdale ended up being placed in the top bracket out of 5, where it got swept and went 0-5 after a 4-2 morning. While Sunny performed as usual, getting 29.0 ppg, and Sayushan got -5 ppg, the surprise from this tournament was James Zhou, who was believed to be at around Ankush's level, if not worse. He had a very stellar morning performance, though it dropped to 29.5 ppg by the end of the day. The team also showed significant improvement from last year, earning 17.50 p/b.
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| Hinsdale Central Red Devils
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Location:
Hinsdale, Illinois
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| Coaches |
Alan McCloud
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| State Championships |
1992 IHSA
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Unknown
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| School Size |
Unknown
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| NAQT Page |
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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.
Starting (2013-2014) Players
Freshmen (2017)
Atharv
Ayan
Harrison
Sophomores (2016)
Sunny Chen
James Zhou
Andrew Coyner
Jack Mueller
Hugo Zoells
BJ Ryan
Ankush Bajaj
History
Despite a string of conference, sectional, and regional titles since its state championship in 1992, Hinsdale Central historically has not interacted with the greater Illinois circuit.
In the 2013-2014 school year, Hinsdale Central started attending tournaments run on good questions. They have expressed their interest in improving, although that is dependent on certain members of their team maturing.
