GCCC Quiz Bowl to Compete in National Championship Tournament
[Garden City, KS] February 26, 2021 -- With their strong finish in the online sectional tournament on Saturday, January
23, 2021, the Garden City Community College Quiz Bowl team proved themselves worthy
to play on a national stage. On Saturday, February 27, the team will represent GCCC
in a 16-team national competition: National Academic Quiz Tournaments' Community College
Championship Tournament.
Quiz bowl is a competitive, academic, interscholastic activity for teams of four
students. It is the national version of the game that is often locally called Scholars
Bowl. Quiz bowl teams use buzzers to answer questions about science, math, history,
literature, mythology, geography, social science, current events, sports, and popular
culture. The matches feature a blend of individual competition and team collaboration,
since no individual player is likely to be an expert in all subject areas. Participation
in quiz bowl both reinforces lessons from the classroom and encourages players to
develop new intellectual interests.
The team will consist of Keely Babcock, Christian Guterz, Minh Hang, Dalton Janousek, Ben Shelden, and Samantha Small. The team will be coached by Cody Cundiff (cody.cundiff@gcccks.edu), who will be assisted by Dru Saddler (dru.saddler@gcccks.edu) and Elizabeth Tharman (elizabeth.tharman@gcccks.edu).
GCCC Quiz Bowl team has attended the Community College Championship Tournament four times before. Most recently, in 2018, they made the playoffs and finished in 24th place.
The 2020 Community College Championship Tournament was the last NAQT championship
contested before the COVID-19 outbreak. Though it disrupted many competitions in
the 2020-21 school year, community colleges were able to compete in an online sectional
tournament to qualify for the 2021 CCCT. This year all of NAQT's championships will
be conducted online using Zoom conference calls for each match.
Tournament results will be updated throughout the day at http://www.naqt.com/go/stats/11803 so everyone can follow along and see how the team does. You can also follow #ccct
on Twitter.
ABOUT NAQT
National Academic Quiz Tournaments, founded in 1996, organizes the premier middle
school, high school, and college quiz bowl championships in North America. In addition
to its national championships, NAQT provides questions to invitational tournaments,
league championships, and television shows throughout the year. NAQT operates out
of the Twin Cities and Kansas City, but its members mentor coaches, host tournaments,
volunteer their services, and share their expertise across the United States.
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