Hinsdale Central

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Hinsdale Central Red Devils
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Location:
Hinsdale, Illinois
Coaches Alan McCloud
State Championships 1992 IHSA
Program Status Unknown
School Size Unknown
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Hinsdale Central High School is a District 86 public high school in Hinsdale, Illinois, near Chicago. It competes in the West Suburban Conference and Class AA, the large school division, of the Illinois High School Association's (IHSA) State Championship Series.

Team Members

2017 2016 2015 2014
Atharv Garje Andrew Coyner JD Randell --
Ayan Agarwal Sunny Chen
Harrison Wang Jack Mueller
Michael Noonan Hugo Zoells
Peyton Pielet BJ Ryan
' Ankush Bajaj
James Zhou
Steven Botsoe
Anika Arvanitis
Ian Sokolowski
Jack Mason
Tony Yang

History

Early Years

The team was coached by Donna Watkins throughout the 1990s and the early 2000s. Under her, the team won the 1992 IHSA State Championship Tournament and finished 2nd in 1998 and 2002, racking up a succession of conference, regional, and sectional titles in the process. Eric Jensen, her last assistant coach, head coached for a few years before switching back to assistant coach, with Alan McCloud taking over as the new (and current) head coach.

The team usually found itself near the top of the conference, and advanced to IHSA State numerous times due to being in an easy Sectional (which it is not in anymore), though it was never really competitive or important in the Illinois quiz bowl scene.

2013-2014

Starting in the 2013-2014 school year, with the graduation of its entire 2012-13 Varsity team (with the exception of a junior who quit in December), Hinsdale Central was left with a large leadership vacuum, due to extremely weak retention of '14 and '15 players. In addition, that year's freshman recruiting class was also weak, as only 5 freshmen were left by the end of the season. The sophomores proved to be highly motivated, though, surpassing the previous team in all aspects and bringing the program to new heights. The all sophomore and freshman team showed many signs of potential as the season went on, with decent placement and wins at major tournaments, many of which were attended unaffiliated.

As expected, the team maintained recent dominance within the West Suburban Conference, going undefeated for 15 games. The team won the semifinal and final matches even with top scorer Sunny Chen absent.


Individual Awards

IHSSBCA All-Sectional

  • James Zhou (2014)


IHSA State Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Centralia
1992
Quincy