Maryland
| Maryland | |
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| Location: "Scenic" College Park, MD | |
| Current President or Coach | Brian McPeak |
| National championships | 2015 NAQT Undergraduate; 2008 NAQT Division I; 2007 NAQT Division II; 1981 College Bowl |
| NAQT Page | link |
The University of Maryland is a large, state school in College Park, Maryland.
Origins
The program was founded in the Fall of 1978. Gary Stolovy wrote all the questions for an It's Academic-style intramural tournament in the Spring of 1978 whose final match was hosted by Mac McGarry. This sparked interest for intercollegiate competition. Student Union program coordinator Stephanie Bowers and committee members Paul Tannenbaum, Bob Maranto, Brick Barrientos and Stolovy were among those instrumental in founding the program.
The team, featuring Brick Barrientos, Townsend Reese, Robert Whaples, and Robert Saltzberg, won the 1981 College Bowl National Championship in Huntington, WV.
History
Maryland was one of the original schools to de-affiliate from CBI and form ACF.
In 2007, Maryland won the 2007 ICT Division II title. The team also won ACF Fall that year hosted at UNC.
In 2008, Maryland won the Division I ICT. That year, Maryland won a series of regular season events including FICHTE, ACF Regionals, two different NAQT Sectionals, the VCU mirror of MUT, the UNC mirror of Illinois Novice, Cardinal Classic, Penn Bowl, PARFAIT, Titanomachy, ACF Fall and EFT. The general A Team present at these tournaments includes Jonathan Magin, Charles Meigs, Chris Ray and Jeremy Eaton, although Mike Bentley and Dan Suzman have occasionally played on the A Team at these tournaments. Jonathan Magin was also on a team that won Illinois Open and the Chicago Open.
The team has been successful regionally and nationally since Magin's graduation, as Chris Ray's playing career continued unabated. Maryland's many top-bracket finishes since have included 4th place at the 2011 ICT.
In 2014-2015, the year following Ray's departure to Chicago, the team won the Undergraduate National Championship at the 2015 ICT and finished third at 2015 ACF Nationals. The latter finish was Maryland's highest at a national tournament since 2008.
Members of the Maryland team have a cult-like love for The Knot, a buzzer system which gets its name for the mess that results from the 16 wires attached to the main unit used for buzzing. In 2008, the club bought a second Knot. However, all of the club knots have broken and
Hosting Tournaments
Being something of a nexus of quizbowl on the East Coast, Maryland typically hosts a large number of tournaments during the year for multiple difficulty levels and audiences.
Traditionally, Maryland hosts one college tournament each year, TIT or the Terrapin Invitational Tournament. The school has also been a frequent site of national tournaments on both the high school and college circuits, being the host of 2004's PACE NSC, 2006's ICT, 2007's TRASHionals, the 2010 and 2012 iterations of ACF Nationals, 2011 NASAT, and the 2013 PACE NSC. It was scheduled to host 2008's ACF Nationals before the Maryland Scheduling Department mucked things up.
In 2007, Maryland was behind the two trash tournaments, ASS or the Atlantic Seaboard Skirmish and The Chris McCray Tournament For Academic Excellence. ASS II was held in the summer of 2008, and the TERP trash tournament surfaced in the early 2010s.
Maryland traditionally hosts two high school tournaments in the fall and spring, though it hosted neither in the 2012-13 season. The Maryland Fall Classic tournament traditionally was a variation of the It's Academic format, although it has recently switched to pyramidal questions (from HSAPQ at first, then NAQT). The Maryland Spring Classic tournament has been an mACF style tournament for many years.
In the past, Maryland used to host a novice tournament called DSHIT. This was discontinued in 2005 due to a lack of interest.
Current members
- Naveed Choudhery
- Sam Rombro
- Emma Stevens
- Stephen Meyer
- Gaurav Kandlikar
- Sarang Yeola
- Ophir Lifshitz
- Chris Manners
- Brian McPeak
- Sohan Vartak
- Dan Puma
- Jordan Brownstein
Former Members
- Chris Ray
- Isaac Hirsch
- Jeff Amoros
- Logan Anbinder
- Brick Barrientos
- Mike Bentley
- Zeke Berdichevsky
- Marc Berman
- Robby Blum
- Jessie Bykowski
- Brittany Clark
- Phil Durkos
- Jeremy Eaton
- Adam Fine
- Arthur Fleming
- Roman Garnett
- Dan Goff
- Dan Greenstein
- Stevejon Guth
- Dave Hamilton
- Glenn Hogie
- Zach Hommer
- Brad Houston
- Bekah Kass
- Jack Kennedy
- Daniel M. Maggin
- Jonathan Magin
- Bob Maranto
- Charles Meigs
- John Nam
- Eric Newman
- Townsend Reese
- Casey Retterer
- Robert Saltzberg
- Tricia Southard
- Mike Starsinic
- Gary Stolovy
- Paul Tannenbaum
- Sandeep Vaheesan
- Robert Whaples
- Lauren Woolsey
Many former Maryland players still play at trash tournaments on the College Park Retirement Castle team.
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