Missouri Scholars Academy Scholar Bowl
From QBWiki
The Missouri Scholars Academy is a summer program for gifted rising high school juniors founded to stimulate intellectual development. One feature of MSA life is the Scholar Bowl tournament, a quizbowl event in which members of the various houses at MSA compete for a student championship. The top student team then competes against staff, faculty and RAs.
In 2010, Olympia Academic Competition Questions wrote the questions for the entirety of the tournament. Olympia hopes to do so in the future as well.
Many current active quizbowlers and other career standouts are connected in some fashion to the MSA Scholar Bowl program:
- Jason Mueller (MSA '99; Lincoln '01; Missouri)
- Terin Budine (MSA '06; Savannah '08)
- Alex Dzurick (MSA '06; South Callaway '08'; Missouri '12)
- Charles Hang (MSA '07; Francis Howell Central '09; St. Charles CC '1x; WUSTL '13) - additionally, question writer for playoffs in 2009. His company, Olympia Academic Competition Questions, wrote the questions in 2010.
- Julia Price (MSA '07; Fort Zumwalt West '09) - wrote playoff questions in 2009 along with Charles Hang.
- Grant Gates (MSA '08; North Kansas City '10)
- Ikshu Neithalath (MSA '09; Clayton '11)
- Sabrina Fritz (MSA '09; Villa Duchesne '11)
- Jim Meyer (quizbowl coach at Rock Bridge HS; MSA Scholar Bowl coordinator)
