Matt Bollinger

Matthew Bollinger
Noted subjects	General, Mythology, Music, Arts
Current college	University of Virginia
Past colleges	N/A
High school	Saint Anselms Abbey School (2006-2010)
Stats	HDWhite • NAQT

Matt Bollinger is currently a freshman at the University of Virginia. Bollinger is the first freshman since Shantanu Jha to make a significant impact on the national level in his first year of collegiate competition as his presence instantly elevated UVA to the status of a top ten team in the country [1].

Matt is the subject of a number of notable quizbowl running jokes, most of which were popularized by Mike Cheyne. These include:

• "That's a word, Mike Sorice!"--Occurred during the NSC All-Star Round, when Bollinger responded to a question on "hapticity" by inexplicably telling the moderator Mike Sorice that it was a word.

• "Zeppelins"--Occurred after Matt insisted that a NASAT tossup on zeppelins written by Mike Cheyne was extremely difficult to answer.

• "Rizzoli and Isles"--A reference to the unpopular TNT program. Carsten Gehring and Mike Cheyne have begun referring to Bollinger (Rizzoli) and Evan Adams (Isles) by this name. Evan Adams' recent decision to attend UVA for law school ensures this joke will likely still have some mileage.

• Matt is also noted for his tendency to blush, a fact he was unaware of until an IRC conversation. He once accidentally gave away $10 to a panhandler at the Richmond Five Guys while staffing CULT.

High School

He was a member of the St. Anselm's class of 2010. After his teammate Aidan Mehigan became good at quizbowl, Bollinger went on an enormous study binge over the summer, which paid off when he was the second highest scorer at the 2010 NSC (where his team placed fourth).

College

With Chris Ray, Eric Mukherjee, and Dominic Machado, Matt played on a team that won the Saturday event of VCU Open 2010. Along with Will Butler he led UVA to victory at the 2011 Penn Bowl finishing as the second leading scorer at the tournament.