Gateway Athletic Conference

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The Gateway Athletic Conference (or GAC) tournament features schools from the western edge of the St. Louis Metro Area extending from the towns of St. Charles, Warrenton and Washington. The Conference tournament is usually held in March, yet some have been held in February or even late January. The conference used Avery questions in 2007, Questions Galore questions from 2008-10, NAQT's Missouri packets from 2011-15, and has used IS-A sets with NAQT rules since 2016. The amount of teams at each tournament generally hovers around 8-12, with a few outliers.

History

The Gateway Athletic Conference tournament was first founded in 2002 with the assistance of Fort Zumwalt West coach Jeremy Gibbs. The first iteration of the tournament featured only four teams [1] Early on, the conference was dominated by Francis Howell Central and Fort Zumwalt West, yet the transition into more pyramidal questions, Francis Howell Central slowly declining, and Fort Zumwalt West's team going completely inactive resulted in a 4-year winning streak by Francis Howell. This streak eventually ended in 2015 when Orchard Farm defeated Francis Howell 440-370, only to be beaten by a Joe Stitz-led Washington the following conference in 2016. From 2016 to 2022, Washington maintained a 55-1 W/L record, their only loss coming in 2019 when Fort Zumwalt North temporarily took the title.


Participants

Results

Year Champion Runner-up Top Individual(s)
2002 Francis Howell Central Fort Zumwalt South Unknown
2003 Francis Howell Central Fort Zumwalt North Unknown
2004 Washington Fort Zumwalt West Unknown
2005 Fort Zumwalt West Francis Howell Central Unknown
2006 Francis Howell Central Fort Zumwalt West Unknown
2007 Fort Zumwalt West Francis Howell Central Teresa 'Teri' Kilmer, FZW
2008 Francis Howell Central Fort Zumwalt West Becca Genet/Julia Price, FZW
2009 Francis Howell Central Fort Zumwalt West Julia Price, FZW
2010 Fort Zumwalt West Francis Howell Central Blake Hiza, FHC
2011 Francis Howell Fort Zumwalt North Unknown
2012 Francis Howell Washington Unknown
2013 Francis Howell Fort Zumwalt North Unknown
2014 Francis Howell Holt Annie Chen, Orchard Farm
2015 Orchard Farm Francis Howell Tyler Woosencraft, Orchard Farm
2016 Washington Francis Howell Emily Sigmund, FZN
2017 Washington Orchard Farm Joe Stitz, Washington
2018 Washington Francis Howell Ganon Evans, Francis Howell
2019 Fort Zumwalt North Washington Caleb Fick, FZN
2020 Washington Holt Heath Bana, Holt
2021 Washington Holt Heath Bana, Holt
2022 Washington Orchard Farm Samantha Doepker, Washington

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