Texas
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| Location: Austin, TX | |
| Current President or Coach | Arnav Sastry |
| National championships | 2015 NAQT Division II |
| NAQT Page | link |
The University of Texas is a large public university located in Austin, TX. Though technically not allowed to represent the University of Texas or to use its name, the UT quizbowl team has been known to occasionally appear at tournaments on the local and national circuit and even host such events without its parent university's knowledge.
History
It is unclear when UT Quizbowl was founded, as there are very few records and no one currently associated with the club remembers anything farther back than 1998. College Bowl records indicate that UT played CBI Regionals continuously from the '95-'96 season through the '00-'01 season, in which they won third place at the NCT. The '95-'97 teams were most likely led by Alfred Wallace, Suzy Rivoire, and Jennifer Hopens. It could be argued, however, that 1998, which saw the matriculation of Eric Smith, was the beginning of the modern era of UT Quizbowl.
After the departure of Smith for Stanford in '01, the team was led by Adam Escandell and Mengmeng Zhang for two years. UT's only nationals appearance in this period came at the '02 ICT, where they finished 17th in Division II.
2003 saw the arrival of team leaders Eric Kwartler and Matt Nance. While the team failed to appear at any national tournaments that season, UT did become much more active on the local circuit, attending four tournaments and hosting two more. Since then, UT has attended 23 tournaments, six of them national tournaments and four of them circuit events outside the Southwest region.
Current Members
Former Members
- Allison Biehl
- Trent Dupuy
- Adam Escandell
- Jeff Ford
- Jennifer Hopens
- Kerry Kaszak
- Amir Marouni
- Suzy Rivoire
- Eric Smith
- Nitin Udpa
- Alfred Wallace
- Erik Weatherwax
- Tom Weir
- K. Michael Wilcox
- Mengmeng Zhang
- Ramesh Kannappan
- Eric Kwartler
- Caleb Lo
- Mark Molaro
- Matt Nance
- Julia Rosinski
More results coming later
1999-2000 Season
| Tournament | Host | Date | Finish | Individual |
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| NAQT SCT | University of Oklahoma | February 2000 | Texas D1 - 4th, Texas D2 - 2nd | N/A |
| ACF Regionals | University of Oklahoma | February 2000 | Texas A - 4th | Eric Smith - 3rd |
| NAQT ICT | Boston University | April 2000 | Texas D1 - 14th, Texas D2 - 15th | N/A |
1998-1999 Season
| Tournament | Host | Date | Finish | Individual |
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| Route 66 | University of Oklahoma | October 1998 | Texas A - 1st | N/A |
| NAQT Conference Championship | The University of Texas | November 1998 | UT A - 1st | N/A |
| NAQT SCT | Wichita State University | February 1999 | UT A - 1st | Eric Smith - 2nd, Jennifer Hopens - 3rd, Suzy Rivoire - 5th |
| ACF Regionals | Texas A&M University | February 1999 | UT - 1st | N/A |
| ICT | University of Michigan | April 1999 | UT - 15th | N/A |
| ACF Nationals | University of Chicago | April 1999 | UT - 9th | N/A |
Title succession
Unofficial title succession
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