Yale

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Yale University
Yale.jpg
Location:
New Haven, CT
Current President or Coach Mauricio Gonzalez-Sanchez
National championships ACF: 2011, 2012
ACF UG: 2014, 2022, 2023
ICT Div. I: 2013, 2018, 2019
ICT UG: 2014
ICT Div. II: 2002, 2011, 2022
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Yale University is a private institution located in New Haven, Connecticut.

Each year the club usually hosts two high school tournaments: one in the fall, FAcT (Fall Academic Tournament), which uses NAQT questions, and one in the spring, BHSAT (Bulldog High School Academic Tournament), which is house-written. It also usually hosts two college tournaments every year.

Yale won the NAQT DII ICT in 2002. Though the club grew stagnant for several years thereafter, the emergence of Richard Mason and John Lawrence as strong players, and the acquisition of Stanford veteran Kevin Koai, helped to greatly strengthen it from 2009 forward.

Led in scoring by Matt Jackson, Yale won several national titles from 2011 to 2014. Its fortunes revived a few years later when, led by Jacob Reed and Stephen Eltinge, it garnered back-to-back ICT titles in 2018 and 2019. The 5 titles it won during this period made it the most successful college quizbowl club of the 2010s.

Nationals Results

ACF Nationals (2005–) Division I ICT Division II ICT
1997 39th
1998 21st
1999 26th
2000 10th 22nd
2001 23rd 12th
2002 A:12th
B: 32nd
1st
2003 5th 25th
2004 4th
2005 8th 7th
2006 12th
2007 17th 3rd
2009 19th 4th
2010 11th 9th
2011 1st 6th 1st
2012 A: 1st
B: 18th
3rd
2013 2nd 1st 2nd
2014 2nd (1st UG) 2nd (1st UG) 11th
2015 15th 9th
2016 A: 4th
B:32nd
5th 6th
2017 A: 3rd
B: 28th
C: 37th
5th 26th
2018 3rd A: 1st
B:32nd
2019 A: 17th
B:34th
1st 13th
2022 13th (1st UG) 17th 1st

Current Players

Former Players


NAQT ICT Division I Overall Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Virginia
2013
Virginia
NAQT ICT Division I Overall Champion
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Year
Succeeded by
Michigan
2018, 2019
TBD
ACF Nationals Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Stanford
2011, 2012
Illinois
NAQT ICT Division II Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Pitt
2002
Berkeley
NAQT ICT Division II Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Brown
2011
Harvard
NAQT ICT Division II Champion
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Year
Succeeded by
Vanderbilt
2022
Waterloo