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Academic team on the move

Amanda Phillips, Charger Staff

Buzzers, stiff competition and late afternoon practices--these are things that the Academic Team is used to, especially the varsity team.

While most students are at home and waking up on Saturday around 12:30, the Academic team has been awake and competing or unloading their things.

The team has played at four competitions, Ezell-Harding , Walton High, and UT Chattanooga. The Academic Team has competitions two or three times a month from September through April; if they qualify they will go to a national event at the end of the year in late May or early June.
At Ezell- Harding they came home with first place in the regional event. While at the Walton High Challenge, they placed second and fifth out of 66 teams. At the UT Chattanooga Tournament , CHS came home with third place out of 12 teams.

The current win-loss record for team one is 39 to 2 , and team two’s record is 25 to 8 . So far, they rank fifth in the nation from ASCN National Championship. They are also 2001-02 Tennessee State Champions, 2001-02 WCTE-TV Upper Cumberland Champions .

When asked about going to the regional playoffs sponsor Carolyn Hawkins replied, “ We have a full schedule of competitions to play in both in state and out of state. We have already qualified for three national championship tournament bids this year, so we hope to be able to play.”

The students are encouraged to come see the team play and there is no charge but most of the tournaments are out of town. You have the chance to see them in action on Nov. 9. There will be 35 to 40 teams here to compete with teams from all over Tennessee. Up coming tournaments include Nov. 15-16 at the Vanderbilt University High School Academic Bowl in Nashville, Tennessee. On Nov. 23, the team will compete at Brookwood High School Scholars Bowl in Shellville, Georgia. This tournament is the largest high school quiz bowl in the nation with more than one hundred teams competing

The Knowledge Master Open National Computer Quiz Bowl will be held on Dec. 4.

Good luck to the CHS Academic Team in their upcoming tournaments!

Article prepared for web by Christine Li