Montgomery (San Diego)
| Montgomery High School | |
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| Location: San Diego, CA | |
| Club Presidents | Andrew Barboza |
| Coaches | Michael Gray |
| Program Status | Active |
| School Size | Unknown |
| NAQT Page | link |
Montgomery High School is a Public high school located on the southern suburbs of Otay Mesa West in San Diego, CA. The Montgomery Quiz Bowl Team (MOHQB) is a member of the SoCal QB circuit and the Metro Conference Academic League.
Metro Conference Academic League
MOHQB belongs to, and is a key player in the Metro Conference Academic League, actively competing and supporting the values it installs to its member players.
History
Early & Classical Montgomery (2011-2018)
The Academic League team at Montgomery High School can be traced back all the way back to 2011 as NAQT records show. However, not much is known or recorded during those times except that the team managed to secure a sufficient win to enter the League Tournaments in 2012 and in 2015. It would take until 2018 that the first discovered records of an administration would be recorded but even then not much would be known under the Jorge administration other than the team was formally known as Montgomery High Academics.
Another batch of early records show that Sarah Mansfield presided as coach during the early and classical periods of the MOH Academics Team and as it progressed the identity of the team would be of one of a Coach-Led Administration and a Presidential advisor to aid her, Mansfield incorporated Decathlon alongside Academic League stating that whoever takes Academic League can greatly benefit from taking Decathlon and this precedent would survive for as long as the presence of an Academic League team was at Montgomery.
Torres Dictatorship (2021-2023)
During 2022, Daniel Torres began to usher in a period of Authoritarianism (using the Mansfield form of governance to his advantage) throughout the academic league team. His reign, brought in a form of governance similar to the one already established to which only him and Coach Mansfield made the decisions during that time. On paper, there was a Cabinet to abide ASB customs, but Torres made all the decisions for the team. A stagnant performance and social isolation followed the team during this time only achieving the dreaded "2 win" mark and noting more. The mere simple introduction of creating a social media account would prove to be the fatal spark to the "Late Torres Rennaisance" coupled also alongside the Decathlon team scoring 2nd place in the whole league MOH would begin to achieve a feeling of pride and hope it once never thought it could achieve this confidence allowed the team to be an active center for diplomacy and thanks to this new connections began to emerge which brought in new ideas and ways of learning. The old Classical and Torres ways of Academic League would begin to slowly be a thing of the past and as the words of Torres put it "I regretted not meeting you guys much sooner" no other school would prove to be as much influence to the Montgomery way of life than to the technology of Olympian High School, new ideas like a new student-led form of governance and much more complex study material would forever leave a mark on Montgomery which would be even more evident as to the fact that MOH Academia was now the new name of the team and a greater focus on innovation was rooted and implanted into the team.
Aztec Enlightenment (2023-Present)
After the graduation of Daniel Torres, Coach Mansfield announced that she would leave Academic League to current Band Director Michael Gray and she would preside over Decathlon, thus enfold defuncting the old Montgomery tradition of having Academic League alongside Decathlon and Thus fracturing and splitting MOH Academia, this period was also accompanied with the resignation of the short lived President Hannah Ting. The freshly split Academic League was turned into MOHQB, and it resumes the same functions as the once old MOH Academia held. The 2023-2024 MOHQB Administration is run by a Student-Led Cabinet, with Coach Gray resuming an advisory role. Under President Barboza increased contact with outside schools have accelerated even more then during the Late Torres Renaissance, a new method of studying and new team conduct has allowed MOHQB to improve both socially and academically its rank among the Metro Conference. Unfortunately, this wouldn't last forever as circumstances would point MOHQB was now in a much different environment than it once dealt with this made it achieve a period of skepticism and alliance building rather than its open diplomacy it once admired and practiced. The open renunciation of its Torres-Boulton past and the Boulton Ideology led it to fall out with other teams socially in the league. MOHQB was a beacon of Student-Led Leadership, stationed in a sea of old ways right at its doorstep and in every angle it managed to look out.
Current Players
- Nathaniel De Los Santos
- Antonio Mendoza
- Andrew Barboza
- Venjamin Mata
- Alyssa Rivera
- Janis Portillo
- Cynthia Acuna
- Jeremy Carballo Ramirez
- Luciana Gray
- Paul
- Bella Steele
Internal Functions
MOHQB evolved out of the now defunct MOH Academia in which both the MOH Academic League (Quiz Bowl) Team and the MOH Decathlon Team were incorporated under one umbrella organization. MOHQB operates solely on the Quiz Bowl Team under a Student-Led Cabinet, with Coach Gray resuming an advisory role. The cabinet assumes a diversified administration with treasurer being responsible for fundraising and the monetary status of the team, secretary being responsible for practices and team bonding, vice president acting out as a diplomat with other schools and acting as the spokesperson for the team also filling out presidential roles when the president is not there and lastly the president (also know as the "tlatoani) assumes all the traditional responsibilities of a president with keeping the team relevant and up to date with ASB and NAQT standards. As of writing, this the team has its Headquarters in the Band Room and houses official home games at the library.
Team Culture
The MOHQB has always been an innovator of new things, its one of the first teams to create and sport an official flag for its team. There is a quiz bowl practice every single Tuesday-Thursday to help out current and new members exercise their knowledge on topics with a simulated game but personal studying on topics that interest them is MOHQB's main way of having people retain information that will be useful for them to compete in tournaments. The Aztec war god "Huitzilopochtli" is the unofficial mascot for the MOHQB team representing the values of competitiveness and skill that the team always strides for. The MOHQB is also the pioneer of the "trading card" aesthetic in which individual cards showing teammates, different teams, and other things are shown as a promotional theme.
Notable Alumni
Notable Quotes
- "The Knowledge Tlatoani's of Otay Mesa West." (Antonio Mendoza)
- "what's your sign? what time were you born." (Nathaniel De Los Santos)