Alex Dzurick
| Alex Dzurick | |
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| Current college | University of Missouri-Columbia |
| Past colleges | None |
| High school | South Callaway |
| Stats | HDWhite • NAQT |
Player from the University of Missouri-Columbia, formerly of South Callaway. Alex also competed at the junior high level.
High School Career
Alex is the founder of the William Woods Academic Tournament. A four-year varsity player, he posted impressive scores throughout his high school career, including the third highest points-per-game in the entire state for the 2008 MSHSAA district series (as a senior) and the fourth highest points-per-game in the 2006 MSHSAA Class 3 state championships (as a sophomore).
Before Alex's senior year, his team never attended outside tournaments. In 2007-08, South Callaway attended the William Woods tournament and the Warrenton Warrior Classic.
Among his non-quiz-bowl-nerd friends, Alex is known to obsess over quiz bowl and trivia of any kind, as evidenced by trips ("just to watch") to the Helias tournament as stated above and similar trips to the state series in 2005, 2007, and 2008. He prefers the term "quiz bowl" as two words over the "mashed-together" quizbowl version. He competed in the 2006 Missouri Scholars Academy scholar bowl, and lost only a team of scholars led by fellow quiz bowler Terin Budine of Savannah.
Alex was an active member of the Missouri Academic Competition Message Board while in high school, and is now a moderator. Along with Taylor Smith and Kelson Rosbach of Hallsville and Ravi Fernando of Kirksville, Alex attended the Truman State mirror of Zot Bowl in August 2008.
Records and Results
Individual
- 2005 MSHSAA All-District (C3D4) Team
- 2006 MSHSAA All-District (C3D4) Team
- 1st place - 11.40 avg. tossups per game (tpg)
- 2006 MSHSAA All-State Class 3 Team
- 4th place - 7.0 tpg
- 2007 Mid-Missouri All-Conference Team
- 2007 MSHSAA All-District (C3D4) Team
- 2nd place - 13.75 tpg
- 2008 Warrenton Warrior Classic Tournament
- 2nd place
- 2008 Mid-Missouri All-Conference Team
- 2008 MSHSAA All-District (C3D4) Team
- 1st place - 20.2 tpg (3rd highest in the state)
Team
- 2005 MSHSAA C3D4 Series: 2nd place vs. School of the Osage
- 2006 MSHSAA C3D4 Series: 1st place vs. School of the Osage
- 2007 MSHSAA C3D4 Series: 2nd place vs. Hallsville
- 2008 MSHSAA C3D4 Series: 2nd place vs. Hallsville
- 2006 MSHSAA Class 3 State Series: 4th place
- 2007 Mid-Missouri Conference Tournament: 1st place vs. Hallsville
- 2008 Mid-Missouri Conference Tournament: 2nd place vs. Hallsville
- 2008 Warrenton Warrior Classic Tournament: 4th place
- 2008 William Woods Academic Tournament: 2nd place vs. Centralia
Rivals
Alex's main quiz bowl rival was Taylor Smith of Hallsville, a conference and district opponent. In addition, a rivalry with Charles Hang developed after the 2008 Warrenton tournament. Dzurick, Smith, and Hang are all alumni of the Missouri Scholars Academy.
University of Missouri
While at Mizzou, Alex has been involved in planning the structure of the University of Missouri Quizbowl Club along with fellow Mizzou freshman Charlie Dees. He served as co-tournament director for the first annual Missouri Fall Academic Tournament on November 1, 2008, and the first annual Tiger Bowl on January 24, 2009, and acted as MSHSAA liaison for both tournaments. He attended the ACF Winter tournament in Rolla, NAQT Sectionals Midwest at Washington University, Cardinal Classic XVIII at Stanford and ACF Regionals at Chicago.
Alex was elected president of the 2009-10 Mizzou club on April 22, 2009. His term begins following the completion of the 2009 spring semester.
Alex is also a founding member of the Missouri Quizbowl Alliance and serves as the group's secretary.