Lily Chen
| Lily Chen | |
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| Noted subjects | science, gullibility, eunuchs, right-hand driving in Sweden |
| Current college | None |
| Past colleges | None |
| High school | Hunter (2006-) |
| Stats | HDWhite • NAQT |
An up-and-coming Beast Frosh, Lily Chen is the future of high school quizbowl. She is surprisingly mild-mannered for such a title.
High School Career
Lily first entered the quizbowl world as a seventh grader by being the only person attracted by the existing Hunter team's witty ad campaign. Her first practice was marked by professing to never having heard of Corsica; things quickly changed as she attended LIFT and similar other tournaments, primarily of the NAQT persuasion, culminating in an astounding 8.85 PPG at the 2007 HSNCT. She improved over the next two years, and may even be able to buzz on the Wittig reaction before "ylide".
Lily will almost certainly captain (or co-captain) the Hunter team after the graduation of Guy Tabachnick.
Writing
Lily's sense of difficulty has always been skewed; one of the first tossups she ever wrote, was a purported high school tossup on colchicine. Her writing has gotten better since then thanks to her work on the two Prison Bowls to date, editing most of the science for the generally lauded second incarnation in January 2009. She is going to write for next year's Prison Bowl as well.
Acts of Goodwill
Recently, Lily has begun helping out the quizbowl community at large. Such acts include: