New Trier
| New Trier Trevians | |
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| Location: Winnetka, Illinois | |
| Coaches | David Reinstein, Carolyn Gerhardt, & Benjamin Yang |
| State Championships | 2007 IHSA, 2007 NAQT |
| Program Status | Unknown |
| School Size | Unknown |
| NAQT Page | link |
New Trier High School is a public high school in Winnetka, Illinois. Its nickname is the Trevians (taken from the name of the medieval defenders of the German town of Trier). It currently competes as a member of the Central Suburban League (CSL). It also competes in Class AA, the "large school" division, of the Illinois High School Association's (IHSA) State Championship Series. The team is often stylized as the "New Trier High School Happy Buzzer Squadron". Past coaches include David Dickman (who started the team during the 1980s), Terry Witt, Michelle Shade (nee Karlin), and Erin Weller.
New Trier's reputation as being "the elite of the elite" carried with it the irony that despite their success, they had never won a state title in Scholastic Bowl (even for the school, Scholastic Bowl remained one of the very few IHSA organized sports or activities for which the school lacked a state title). In 2007, the pieces finally came together as the team finally earned its first IHSA State Title. New Trier has never won a Masonic State Championship, though it has finished 2nd on two occasions, and the teams that it beat at the Sectional level have twice qualified as Wildcards and won State.
Tournament Hosting
2005 saw the start of the New Trier Varsity, whose questions were written by Carlo Angiuli and Nick Matchen, two junior on that year's team. This necessitated the move, unusual in Illinois, where the house did not field a team. The tournament was an unqualified success. The 2006 tournament was written by Aegis Questions, the official company started by Carlo and Nick along with others, most notably Loyola's Matt Laird. In 2007, Aegis again provided the questions, and the rules were modified to better fit ACF rather than Illinois Scholastic Bowl Format. In 2008, Aegis stopped providing questions to the tournament that had led to its own creation in order to focus on the Masonic series, but Aegis folded a month later. The 2008 tournament was thrown together in the last month mostly by Jonah Greenthal and David Reinstein. For 2009, Jonah recruited several writers and put the system back on solid footing.
As a perennially top ranked team, New Trier has a long history of hosting IHSA Regional Tournaments (which they have won every year except once since the inception of the Regional level in 1997, and even then advanced because two teams from each Regional used to go to the Sectional), and with a great many experienced tournament personnel at their disposal, have hosted several IHSA Sectional Tournaments.
Despite these, the most intriguing tournament hosted in Winnetka every year is the Scobol Solo. The questions are written by David Reinstein, and it has annually attracted over 100 of the top players in the state (and occasionally some from outside of Illinois). Some consider it "the unofficial individual state championship."
Noted Team Accomplishments
- CSL Frosh-Soph Season Champions (12): 1994-97, 2000-04, 06-08
- CSL Frosh-Soph Tournament Champions (9): 1995-96, 98-2001, 03, 06-07
- CSL Varsity Season Champions (10): 1995, 97, 99-2003, 07-09
- CSL Varsity Tournament Champions (8): 1995, 99, 02-03, 05, 07-09
- IHSA Regional Titles (12): 1997-2000, 2002-09
- IHSA Sectional Titles (9): 1990, 95, 97-99, 2002-03, 06-07
- IHSA Championship Tournament Champions: 2007
- IHSA Championship Tournament Runner-Up: 1995
- IHSA Championship Tournament Third Place: 1999, 2002-03
- NAQT State Qualifier: 2007
- Midwest Championship: 2007
New Trier has qualified for the second day championship rounds almost every time it has entered a national tournament, namely the 2004 and 2007 PACE NSCs, and the 2005-09 NAQT HSNCTs. At the 2009 PACE NSC, the team ended up in the second tier after a close loss to Chaska.
IHSSBCA Individual Awards
The following were honored by the Illinois High School Scholastic Bowl Coaches Association (IHSSBCA) for outstanding play through their All-Sectional/All-State Program. Each sectional comprises roughly 24 geographically concentrated teams, and thus roughly 125 starting players. Through the 2006-07 season, the top ten players were recognized in each sectional,(starting with 2007-08, the number was raised to 15) with teams restricted to no more than two nominations (three nominations starting in 2007-08). There are twenty All-State awards given each year (10 First Team, 10 Second Team) in each of Illinois' two classes.
All-Sectional Honorees
- 2001-02: Matt Keenan, Alex Slack
- 2002-03: Michael Evans, Matt Keenan
- 2003-04: Michael Evans, Yian Chen
- 2004-05: Cliff Chang, Greg Poulos
- 2005-06: Thomas Buley, Nick Matchen
- 2006-07: Carlo Angiuli, Nick Matchen
- 2007-08: Ben Cohen, Jonah Greenthal, Robert Sido
- 2008-09: Ben Cohen
All-State Honorees
- 2001-02: Matt Keenan (1st team)
- 2002-03: Matt Keenan (1st team)
- 2003-04: Michael Evans (1st team), Yian Chen (2nd team)
- 2004-05: Cliff Chang (1st team)
- 2006-07: Carlo Angiuli (1st team), Nick Matchen (2nd team)
- 2007-08: Ben Cohen (1st team), Robert Sido (2nd team)
- 2008-09: Ben Cohen (1st team)
Playing for Team Illinois
- David Shalowitz (1998, 1999)
- Shao-Yun Guo (2002)
- Colin Davy (2003)
- Matt Keenan (2003)
- Cliff Chang (2005)
- Carlo Angiuli (2006, 2007)
Players
Team Captains
- 1994-95: Matt Bender and Matt Caywood
- 1995-96: Ernie Brodsky
- 1996-97: Rob Dolan
- 1997-98: Sue Paik
- 1998-99: David Shalowitz
- 1999-2000: Brian Ginsberg, Kevin Pearce, and Craig Segall
- 2000-01: Nick Poulos
- 2001-02: Alex Slack
- 2002-03: Colin Davy and Matt Keenan
- 2003-04: Michael Evans
- 2004-05: Greg Poulos
- 2005-06: Thomas Buley
- 2006-07: Carlo Angiuli and Nick Matchen
- 2007-08: Jonah Greenthal and Robert Sido
- 2008-09: Ben Cohen
- 2009-10: Steve Server
Current Lineup
- Steve Server (captain)
- Shao-Hai Guo
- Jules Reich
- a handful of apparent eight-year-olds
- some confused dudes (maybe dudettes?) who brought bowling shoes
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