Quiz Bowl VHSL State Champions from MLWGS travel to NAQT National Championship May 26-28

Maggie Walker Quiz Bowl is looking forward to competing in two national tournaments in the next few weeks. Two teams from MLWGS will be headed to Atlanta over Memorial Day weekend to compete in NAQT’s High School National Championship Tournament. Two weekends later, three teams will fly to Chicago to compete in PACE’s National Scholastic Championship. Both of these tournaments attract the top teams from around the country and internationally! The teams we are sending are:

HSNCT A Team: Sam McNamee (Captain), Timothy Porter, Risshi Naavaal, Yash Saxena
HSNCT B Team: Vien Nguyen (Captain), Bharathi Kancharla, Eric Hu, Devesh Kumar, Stella Broome

NSC A Team: Sam McNamee (Captain), Timothy Porter, Yash Saxena, Vien Nguyen
NSC B Team: Bharathi Kancharla (Captain), Eric Hu, Devesh Kumar, Stella Broome
NSC C Team: Brenden Stremler (Captain), Liam Reed, Nate Stewart, Amanda Campbell

The Quiz Bowl team is sponsored by Adam Rotche and Drew Austen, assisted by Juanita Lasswell. 

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