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While two other teams have won both major national championships (NAQT HSNCT[http://naqt.com/hsnct/2005/results/detail.tja.html] and PACE NSC) in the same year, Thomas Jefferson's 2005 team remains the only one to go undefeated at both tournaments.
 
While two other teams have won both major national championships (NAQT HSNCT[http://naqt.com/hsnct/2005/results/detail.tja.html] and PACE NSC) in the same year, Thomas Jefferson's 2005 team remains the only one to go undefeated at both tournaments.
 
==Current Roster==
 
==Current Roster==
*Rohan Hegde
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*Alex Howe
 
*Alex Howe
 
*Saurav Pattanayak
 
*Saurav Pattanayak

Revision as of 14:27, 23 December 2015

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Thomasjefferson.jpg
Location:
Alexandria, VA
Coaches Dennis Loo
State Championships 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009 Scholastic Bowl; 2002, 2005 NAQT
National Championships 2005 PACE; 2003 NAQT, 2004 NAQT, 2005 NAQT, 2008 NAQT; Panasonic
Program Status Active
School Size Unknown
NAQT Page link

The Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, often known simply as Thomas Jefferson or TJ, is a school located in Alexandria, VA. It is a state chartered magnet school and is known for being highly selective. TJ has a notable force in Virginia and national quizbowl since the early 1990s, especially in the period from 2003 to 2005.

Thomas Jefferson hosts at least one high school tournament each year, usually drawing all the elite teams in the DC region as well as teams from farther afield.

State championship performance

Since the Virginia High School League established its Scholastic Bowl championship in 1998, Thomas Jefferson has won the group AAA title nine times (1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009) and finished second in the other three years. Thomas Jefferson also won the title at the 2002 and 2005 NAQT Virginia Championship, and finished second in the other six NAQT state tournaments that have attended. Thus, TJ has finished in either first or second place in 20 out of 21 of the state championship tournaments ever run in Virginia.

B teams

Thomas Jefferson is notable for fielding strong B teams, including two B teams which finished second at NAQT states and a 2005 B team which finished in the top 10 at NAQT nationals and in the final four at PACE nationals (with TJ A winning both of those tournaments). In 2004, TJ B was ranked second after the preliminary rounds in both NAQT nationals and PACE nationals, but choked in the playoff rounds and finished fifth at PACE and outside the top ten at NAQT. In 2011, their B team placed T-8th at HSNCT and 16th at PACE nationals.

Nationals performance

Thomas Jefferson won the Panasonic national championship in 1994 and contributed several players to the Virginia all-star teams which won in 2003, 2004, and 2005.

Thomas Jefferson finished second at the PACE NSC in 2003 and 2004 and won the tournament in 2005. Besides those TJ teams, only State College at the 1998 to 2001 and 2010 to 2011 PACE NSCs have repeated as the champion of any major national championship tournament.

Thomas Jefferson won three straight NAQT national championships, from 2003 to 2005. This included a 40-game winning streak sandwiched between a round 10 prelim loss to Dunbar in 2003 and a round 3 loss to Charter B in 2006.

On May 25, 2008, the Thomas Jefferson A team defeated Wilmington Charter A in the 2nd and deciding game of an advantaged final to claim their 4th NAQT National Championship.

2005 team

Widely considered the greatest high school team of all time, the 2005 Thomas Jefferson A team had a regular lineup of Sam Lederer, Dan Wright, Will Sullivan, and Jacob Oppenheim. When playing in tossup/bonus formats with that full lineup, TJ A went undefeated for the entire year, believed to be the first team to do so while playing a significantly competitive schedule.

While two other teams have won both major national championships (NAQT HSNCT[1] and PACE NSC) in the same year, Thomas Jefferson's 2005 team remains the only one to go undefeated at both tournaments.

Current Roster

Notable alumni

Tournament Results

2012-13 Academic Year

Date Tournament Question Set Team Record Rank Stats
10/06 ANCHORMAN SCOP Novice A 9-0 1/30 [2]
B 6-4 5/30 [3]
C 7-3 13/30 [4]
D 7-3 19/30 [5]
10/14 IFT @ Maryland Illinois Fall A 8-3 9/24 [6]
10/27 Cavalier Classic XV NAQT IS-120 A 10-2 2/21 [7]
B 5-5 9/21 [8]
12/08 GSAC XX GSAC A 10-1 2/32 [9]
B 6-4 17/32 [10]
C 5-5 19/32 [11]
1/12 Metro Richmond Invitational HSAPQ-33 A 8-3 4/24 [12]
B 6-5 6/24 [13]


Succession of titles

PACE NSC Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Maggie Walker
2005
Raleigh Charter
NAQT HSNCT Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
St. John's
2003, 2004, 2005
Richard Montgomery
NAQT HSNCT Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Maggie Walker
2008
Wilmington Charter

Succession of minor titles

Panasonic Academic Challenge Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Torrey Pines
1994
Florida All-Stars