Harding

Harding University is a small Christian Liberal Arts college located in Searcy, Arkansas. Harding’s Quiz Bowl team is officially known as the Harding Academic Quiz Team and has been active for many years.

Recent Years

The Harding Academic Quiz Team has been in a rebuilding stage since Jason Loy graduated in 2008. The 2008-2009 season saw Harding appear at only two regular tournaments - Tulsa's Golden Hurricane Open in the fall, and the NAQT SCT 2009 Central at WUSTL. The team was in the bottom of the field for both of these tournaments, but saw promise in its young players.

The 2009-2010 season, so far, has seen the team travel to four tournaments. The team appeared at the University of Illinois' mirror of Brown's Early Fall Tournament IV, ACF Fall at Mizzou, GIT XIV (WUSTL's mirror of Delta Burke), and ACF Winter at Missouri State. The team fell into the lower bracket after preliminary rounds at ACF Fall, but did well after rebracketing. The team was also rebracketed low at GIT XIV, but a round robin of the low-placed teams saw Harding go 3-0, defeating teams all to which they had lost earlier that day. The team took fourth place in a field of six at ACF Winter 2010, and sophomore Caleb Robbins was fourth in scoring.

2004-2008

These years were marked by the presence of Jason Loy. As a Quiz Bowl force with which to be reckoned, Jason led the team to several ICT appearances and numerous tournament wins. Jason was backed by other strong players, including Ben Lamb. Jason currently attends grad school at Missouri State where he also plays Quiz Bowl.

Members

Active

• Dr. Mark Elrod
  • Advisor/Coach
• Jordan Crawford
  • Sophomore - History
• Josh Duggins
  • Freshman - History
• Ben Hale
  • Junior - Computer Science
• Caleb Robbins
  • Sophomore - Biology

Additional participants for 2009-2010

The following students represented Harding at one or more Quiz Bowl tournaments during the 2009-2010 academic year, but are not currently considered "active": Neil Casey, Laura Douglass, Katie Foutch, Nick Rogers, April Souza, Kirvyn Vargas, and Jeff Young.

Alumni/Inactive Members

• Jason Loy
  • Class of '08
• Laura Douglass
  • Winter Class of '09 Graduate - Team Mom?