Fred Morlan
| Fred Morlan | |
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| Noted subjects | hsquizbowl.org |
| Current college | n/a |
| Past colleges | West Virginia Wesleyan (2004), Kentucky (2012-2017) |
| High school | Parkersburg South |
| Stats | HDWhite • NAQT |
Fred Morlan is probably the best known West Virginian in the wider world of quizbowl. He played in college for West Virginia Wesleyan as well as in high school, and has since gone on to greater things (such as a new residence in Lexington, Kentucky, where he helped re-found the Kentucky team). He is probably best known currently as co-owner of International Quiz Bowl Tournaments, which has run NASAT since 2018.
Fred's other immense contributions to the community include being the force behind HSQBRank, a massive, regularly-updating, statistical ranking of high school teams; his work on the hsquizbowl.org message boards, where he served as Chief Administrator until June of 2011; and his work on the QBWiki.
Career
At Fred's first tournament during his first collegiate "career", VCU's Alpha and Omega Bowl, he scored an astonishing 2 points per game by vulturing a science question ending with the words "alpha and beta." His bringing a laptop for Matt Weiner to track stats on was the greater contribution to quiz bowl history. Fred returned to play VCU Open 2009 and the Tommy and Cameron Open. His studying and leading of practices for West Virginia high schoolers apparently paid off as he had his highest PPG of his erstwhile college career.
Other contributions
Fred served as president of the Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence for the 2009-10 season, and played a key role in PACE's expansion of the NSC field to 60+ teams annually. He was also the President in 2018-19.
From the 2010-2011 season to the 2018-19 season, Fred published HSQBRank,a ranking of the top 100 high school teams.. The rankings, largely based on an adjusted points per bonus statistic (appb) so as to keep PPB more consistent across sets of varying difficulty, can be found at [1].
Fred spearheaded the creation of the David Riley Coaches Conference and pushed PACE to create the Morgan Costa-Rhodes Memorial Scholarship.
Fred was a writer and editor for NAQT and HSAPQ. He also edited the pop culture questions for the 2008 ACF Nationals set.