Matt Laird - Revision history

Naveed Chowdhury: changing content so that this is no longer substantially a laudatory (and possibly self-written) article from the 2000s and foregrounds the important information about its subject

2025-10-28T19:03:08Z

changing content so that this is no longer substantially a laudatory (and possibly self-written) article from the 2000s and foregrounds the important information about its subject

Shiva Oswal at 00:47, 2 June 2021

2021-06-02T00:47:24Z

Gregory Gauthier: +guilty plea and sentence

2019-05-27T16:52:31Z

+guilty plea and sentence

Dylan Bowman at 02:31, 22 May 2019

2019-05-22T02:31:09Z

Jack Mayer at 03:16, 25 October 2018

2018-10-25T03:16:40Z

Jonah Greenthal at 20:46, 24 October 2018

2018-10-24T20:46:32Z

David Reinstein at 14:38, 19 March 2017

2017-03-19T14:38:29Z

Tom Egan at 21:04, 9 December 2016

2016-12-09T21:04:10Z

Tom Egan: /* Coaching */

2016-12-09T20:56:46Z

Coaching

Jonah Greenthal: Morgan did that

2014-08-04T07:34:11Z

Morgan did that

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+'''Mathew J. Laird''' is a former coach at [[Loyola Academy]] and [[Stevenson]]. His involvement in quizbowl ended when he was charged with sexual crimes involving minors in 2018.<ref name=charge>https://www.chicagotribune.com/2018/10/24/former-north-shore-teacher-charged-with-sexual-assault-child-pornography-held-without-bond/</ref> He was convicted the following year and is currently serving a 35-year sentence in the Illinois prison system.<ref name=prison>https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/glenview/ct-gla-guilty-sex-assault-child-pornography-tl-0425-story.html</ref>
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+Laird competed in high school at [[Loyola Academy]] in Wilmette, Illinois, graduating in 2004. As an undergraduate at Loyola University, he worked at Loyola Academy as an assistant coach to [[David Riley]]. In 2011, after a year as a teacher's aide at the school, he became an English teacher and took over as quizbowl coach upon Riley's retirement. He held both of these positions until 2014, when he temporarily left teaching. During the 2016–17 school year, he was an official assistant coach for the quizbowl club at [[Stevenson]]. The next year, he was hired as a special education teacher at North Shore Academy in Highland Park, Illinois. He worked in this capacity for a little more than a year before being fired after police notified the school of the criminal investigation against him.
-'''Mathew J. Laird''' was a question writer and coach.  He was a principal co-founder of [[Aegis Questions]], Inc. Despite his relatively young age, his enthusiasm, knowledge of the rules, and excellent moderating earned him the respect normally only afforded to much older and seasoned coaches. In October 2018, Laird was charged with several sexual offenses involving minors. In April 2019, Laird was sentenced to 35 years in prison after pleading guilty.<ref name=prison>https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/glenview/ct-gla-guilty-sex-assault-child-pornography-tl-0425-story.html</ref>
+Outside of coaching, Laird was involved in Illinois high school quizbowl as a moderator and administrator. Prior to becoming head coach at Loyola Academy, he was a moderator at the [[IHSA]] state championship tournament and directed the [[IHSSBCA All State Program]].
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-'''Mathew J. Laird''' was a question writer and coach.  He was a principal co-founder of [[Aegis Questions]], Inc. Despite his relatively young age, his enthusiasm, knowledge of the rules, and excellent moderating earned him the respect normally only afforded to much older and seasoned coaches. In October 2018, Laird was charged with several sexual offenses involving minors. In April 2019, Laird was sentenced to 35 years in prison after pleading guilty. [https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/glenview/ct-gla-guilty-sex-assault-child-pornography-tl-0425-story.html]
+'''Mathew J. Laird''' was a question writer and coach.  He was a principal co-founder of [[Aegis Questions]], Inc. Despite his relatively young age, his enthusiasm, knowledge of the rules, and excellent moderating earned him the respect normally only afforded to much older and seasoned coaches. In October 2018, Laird was charged with several sexual offenses involving minors. In April 2019, Laird was sentenced to 35 years in prison after pleading guilty.<ref name=prison>https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/glenview/ct-gla-guilty-sex-assault-child-pornography-tl-0425-story.html</ref>
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 In October 2018 Laird was charged with several sexual crimes involving minors. His involvement in quizbowl ended as soon as the quizbowl community became aware of the situation.
-In April 2019, Laird was sentenced to 35 years in prison after pleading guilty. [https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/glenview/ct-gla-guilty-sex-assault-child-pornography-tl-0425-story.html]
+In April 2019, Laird was sentenced to 35 years in prison after pleading guilty.<ref name=prison/>
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-'''Mathew J. Laird''' was a question writer and coach.  He was a principal co-founder of [[Aegis Questions]], Inc. Despite his relatively young age, his enthusiasm, knowledge of the rules, and excellent moderating earned him the respect normally only afforded to much older and seasoned coaches. In October 2018, Laird was charged with several sexual offenses involving minors.
+'''Mathew J. Laird''' was a question writer and coach.  He was a principal co-founder of [[Aegis Questions]], Inc. Despite his relatively young age, his enthusiasm, knowledge of the rules, and excellent moderating earned him the respect normally only afforded to much older and seasoned coaches. In October 2018, Laird was charged with several sexual offenses involving minors. In April 2019, Laird was sentenced to 35 years in prison after pleading guilty. [https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/glenview/ct-gla-guilty-sex-assault-child-pornography-tl-0425-story.html]
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 In October 2018 Laird was charged with several sexual crimes involving minors. His involvement in quizbowl ended as soon as the quizbowl community became aware of the situation.
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-'''Mathew J. Laird''' was a question writer and coach.  He was a principal co-founder of [[Aegis Questions]], Inc. Despite his relatively young age, his enthusiasm, knowledge of the rules, and excellent moderating earned him the respect normally only afforded to much older and seasoned coaches.
+'''Mathew J. Laird''' was a question writer and coach.  He was a principal co-founder of [[Aegis Questions]], Inc. Despite his relatively young age, his enthusiasm, knowledge of the rules, and excellent moderating earned him the respect normally only afforded to much older and seasoned coaches. In October 2018, Laird was charged with several sexual offenses involving minors.
 ==High School Career==

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-|'''Former school(s):[[Loyola Academy]]'''
+|'''Former school(s): [[Loyola Academy]], [[Stevenson]]'''
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 |'''Other leadership:''' IHSSBCA Publicity Chair (2006-2010)
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 ==Officiating==
-Always considered an excellent moderator, Laird has volunteered for the past several years at the NAQT [[HSNCT]] in Rosemont, Illinois.  In 2007, he was invited to join the moderating corps at the IHSA State Championship Tournament, making him the youngest moderator to ever read at the State Finals.
+Always considered an excellent moderator, Laird volunteered for several years at the NAQT [[HSNCT]] in Rosemont, Illinois.  In 2007, he was invited to join the moderating corps at the IHSA State Championship Tournament, making him the youngest moderator to ever read at the State Finals.
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-'''Mathew J. Laird''' is a question writer and coach.  He is a principal co-founder of [[Aegis Questions]], Inc. Despite his relatively young age, his enthusiasm, knowledge of the rules, and excellent moderating have earned him the respect normally only afforded to much older and seasoned coaches.
+'''Mathew J. Laird''' was a question writer and coach.  He was a principal co-founder of [[Aegis Questions]], Inc. Despite his relatively young age, his enthusiasm, knowledge of the rules, and excellent moderating earned him the respect normally only afforded to much older and seasoned coaches.
 ==High School Career==
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 In Laird's second year coaching, he coached his Varsity team to third place finishes at both HSNCT and NSC.
-After leaving Loyola and coaching for two years, Laird signed on as the assistant coach at [[Stevenson]] for the 2016-17 season.
+After leaving Loyola and coaching for two years, Laird became the assistant coach at [[Stevenson]] for the 2016-17 season.
 ==[[Aegis Questions]]==
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 In March and April 2009, Laird and [[Jonah Greenthal]] conducted a survey of current and former Illinois high school players, which featured questions about changing the unusual Illinois bonus format to an ACF-style one and about changing the distribution of certain minor categories such as driver's ed and agriculture. The survey was sent to the [[IHSSBCA]] and [[IHSA]] Scholastic Bowl advisory committee with the intention of accompanying a similar survey the IHSSBCA took of coaches. Its results are available [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=7681 here].
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	In Laird's second year coaching, he coached his Varsity team to third place finishes at both HSNCT and NSC.		In Laird's second year coaching, he coached his Varsity team to third place finishes at both HSNCT and NSC.
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		+	After leaving Loyola and coaching for two years, Laird signed on as the assistant coach at [[Stevenson]] for the 2016-17 season.

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 In 2006, Laird inaugurated an annual match between Loyola Academy and Maine South.  The match had been born of some close matches that dated back to the loss dealt to Laird's 2004 team.  The "Bloodstone Cup" match lacked only an appropriate trophy, which Laird himself provided.  He secured a crystal goblet, to which he affixed red stones (suggestive of the maroon colors for Loyola, and the red for Maine South).  He then obtained bloodstones, hand tumbled them, and added them to the goblet.  He obtained an appropriate display case which he stained by hand.
-In Laird's second year coaching, he led his Varsity team to third place finishes at both HSNCT and NSC.
+In Laird's second year coaching, he coached his Varsity team to third place finishes at both HSNCT and NSC.
 ==[[Aegis Questions]]==