McGill

McGill University
Location: Montreal, QC
Current President or Coach	Simone Valade
National championships	none
NAQT Page	link

McGill University is an anglophone university in Montreal, Quebec. A trivia club was established in the 2002-03 season.

History

McGill's club was founded in 2003 by Andrew Segal and Jon Klein, two alumni of the Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto. McGill qualified for the 2005 ICT, 2006 ICT, 2007 ICT, and but attended only in 2005, 2006. From this time until 2014, the team had no meeting room and was forced to play in the student bar. From 2008-2012, Hunter Book annually led several McGill teams to the Ottawa Hybrid Tournament and SCT; however, the club did not attend any national championships.

After 2013, the McGill Trivia Club underwent several years of expansion, largely thanks to the administrative management of Joe Su. At the 2014 ICT, a Division II team of Joe Su, Derek So, Sebastian Drake and Sam Baker finished third after losing to Northwestern in a winner-makes-finals game. From 2016-2019, the team of Derek So, Daniel Lovsted, Akhil Garg, and Joe Su put up the best DI ICT (2017, 8th) and ACF Nationals (2019, 7th) finishes in school history and won most regional Canadian tournaments.

During the 2019 McGill mascot rebranding, the ICT team auctioned off naming rights. The drive raised $850 for the Native Women's Shelter of Montreal, but a last minute push by Toronto players caused the players to travel to Chicago with shirts emblazoned "Fartlets".

After hosting Quebec Bowl in 2005 and 2006 SCT, prohibitive room booking costs resulted in the club travelling to Ontario or the US for every tournament. McGill returned to hosting in 2020 with 2020 ACF Fall as a result of quizbowl's move online during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Current Members

• Simone Valade (President)
• Sheena Li (VP External)
• Cormac Beirne (VP Communications)
• Russell Valerio (VP Finance)
• Nikko Ong (VP Operations)
• Nadia Dakdouki
• Kevin Fan
• Minh-Huy Phung
• Tim Kwan

Nationals Appearances

• 2005 DII ICT (12th; Jonathan Klein, Angus Cepka, Andrew Segal, John Dingle)
• 2006 DI ICT (28th; Jonathan Klein, Angus Cepka, Andrew Segal, John Dingle)
• 2014 DII ICT (3rd; Derek So, Samuel Baker, Joe Su, Sebastian Drake)
• 2015 DI ICT (27th; Derek So, Samuel Baker, Sebastian Drake, Stefanie Schoeneman)
• 2015 DII ICT (18th; Daniel Lovsted, Andreas Loken, Jeffrey Liang, Sacha Guilbaud)
• 2015 ACF Nationals (22nd; Derek So, Joe Su, Sebastian Drake)
• 2016 DI ICT (17th; Derek So, Daniel Lovsted, Joe Su, Sebastian Drake)
• 2016 DII ICT(17th; Gilbert Hsyu, Koji Shiromoto, Hugh Hamilton, Jack Guo)
• 2016 ACF Nationals(24th; Derek So, Joe Su, Sebastian Drake)
• 2017 DI ICT(8th; Derek So, Daniel Lovsted, Akhil Garg, Joe Su)
• 2018 DI ICT(11th; Derek So, Daniel Lovsted, Akhil Garg, Joe Su, Jack Guo)
• 2018 DII ICT (14th; Henry Atkins, Austen Friesacher, Nikko Ong)
• 2018 ACF Nationals (18th; Derek So, Daniel Lovsted, Akhil Garg, Joe Su)
• 2019 DI ICT (15th; Derek So, Daniel Lovsted, Akhil Garg, Joe Su)
• 2019 ACF Nationals (7th; Derek So, Daniel Lovsted, Akhil Garg, Joe Su)