Michael Kearney
- Not to be confused with Michael Kearney (prodigy and Vanderbilt alum).
Michael Kearney played quizbowl at Yale from 2016 to 2020 and served as the president of Yale's quizbowl club in 2019–2020. He has impressive knowledge of classics.
Michael edited ancient literature and history for 2021 ACF Regionals, where he used a bonus submitted by fellow Wisconsinite Nick Jensen on Procopius's The Buildings after a notable coincidental encounter with a professor at a barbershop in real life.[1] He has edited for BHSAT and has directed several tournaments at Yale. Michael became a provisional member of ACF in 2020 and served as Interim Site Coordinator in mid-2021.[2]
Michael is also an active member of the Certamen community who organizes tournaments, writes questions, and contributes open-access resources and is experimenting with introducing detailed stats to Certamen.