Bellarmine

Bellarmine College Preparatory School is a Catholic private school located in San Jose, California. Their recent successes include successful finishes in the NorCal circuit, and placing 4th at the 2010 HSNCT.

Current players include Nikhil Desai and Tanay Kothari.

The Bellarmine team began in 2007, competing at only a few local tournaments on mostly A-level sets (to this day, captain Tanay Kothari has never played a non-NAQT tournament). Its A team generally consisted of seniors Matt Menard and Raphael Murillo, junior James Hill III, and freshman Tanay Kothari. Matt led Bellarmine's scoring throughout the year.

The team got more serious in 2008-2009, as freshmen Nikhil Desai and Ankit Aggarwal and sophomore Phil Yakushev entered the team. Those three would join senior Terry Drinkwater and sophomore Ben Gulmon on the incredibly young Bellarmine B, which would tie for 43rd at HSNCT with Bellarmine A, a team consisting of seniors Garrett Kingman, Nitin Egbert, and James Hill III, junior Vinayak Viswanadham, and sophomore Tanay Kothari. The aforementioned term "team got more serious" does not, of course, refer to playing on better sets; rather, the team started studying actively.

The 2009-2010 season, Bellarmine's third, saw the team pick up the pace. Tanay Kothari and Nikhil Desai traded "lead scorer" status at early tournaments, and TO BE CONTINUED.