Nate Kang

Nathaniel Kang
Noted subjects	History, Sports, Literature, Jazz
High school	St. Margaret's (2018 – Present)
Middle school	Camelot Academy (2017 – 2018) Grace Classical (2015 – 2017)
Stats	HDWhite • NAQT

Nathaniel Kang (Class of 2022) is a high school player who currently captains St. Margaret's in the SoCal circuit. Primarily a history specialist, he established the SMES program in 2018, as well as the school's history and quizbowl clubs. He has competed in NHBB competition for six years but only began playing general QB as a high school freshman.

Career

He is a four-time history bee national semifinalist, consecutively from 2015–2018. At 2018 middle school nats, he finished 5th in the country in the 8th grade division, but missed out on reaching finals after falling short against Cooper Roh in the semis. Perhaps his best individual performance came when he placed seventh in JV at the 2019 US History Bee, marking his first finals appearance in a major nationals event.

At the 2019 San Diego NHBB tournament, he narrowly beat Amogh Kulkarni by one tossup to win bee finals. Later that season, he was the bee runner-up to Josh Xu of Santa Monica at another NHBB tournament that was hosted by Arcadia. His streak of five consecutive years winning a regional title (2015-2019) in history bee ended in 2020, when he finished 3rd behind Kulkarni and fellow Arcadia player Ryan Sun on C set.

Kang was the champion of the 2018 "Sports & Entertainment Bee" event in the JV division at NHBB high school nats.

He began playing general quizbowl as a freshman. His first experience as a writer was writing for ERIS, a novice-level set head-edited by Conor Thompson, in 2020.