Victoria Eaton

Victoria Eaton
Noted subjects	Geography, History, Literature, Religion
Past colleges	Redlands CC (2022-23), Oklahoma State (2023-24)
High school	El Reno (2020-22)
Stats	HDWhite • NAQT

Victoria ‘Tori’ Eaton, who formerly went by Noelle, is a retired player from Oklahoma. She previous played for El Reno, Redlands Community College, and Oklahoma State. She was known for occasionally first cluing geography questions and a wide general knowledge pool encompassing most topics, with the lone exceptions being advanced science and psychology.

High School

Victoria played for El Reno from 2020-2022, following her transfer from Mount St. Mary's, which has never fielded a quiz bowl team. She helped El Reno qualify for the 5A OSSAA State Championship for the first time in five years, where the team finished in seventh place. She also captained El Reno's B team at the 2021 Oklahoma State NAQT Tournament where she placed 13th individually. During her senior year, although El Reno failed to qualify for the OSSAA State Championship, she captained El Reno B and placed fourth, second, and eighth individually at the 3 NAQT tournaments the school competed in that year. She was also given the honor of a 2022 OAAC All-State player. She is currently second all-time in scoring history at El Reno, only behind accomplice Riley Ray.

Community College

Victoria was originally going to attend Missouri but backed out when she received a scholarship from Redlands. Tracey Hickman at Murray State College also attempted to recruit her. Playing on Redlands' A team, she helped the team to first-place finishes at the 2022 Garden City Invitational and the 2022 Snow Bowl. She also grabbed first-place honors for individual scoring at both tournaments, averaging 54 and 77 PPG respectively. She had a strong start at the 2023 Oklahoma CC Sectional but fell off in the second half of the tournament, helping Redlands to a second-place finish while claiming third in individual scoring, behind Marshall Barnett and Robert Simpson. At the 2023 CCCT, she averaged 67 points per game, finishing in third place for individual scoring while helping her team to 11th place. Following the 2023 CCCT, she announced her intention to transfer to Oklahoma State.

College

After missing ACF Fall at Oklahoma due to illness, she played at the 2023 Murray State College Novice Invitational. She averaged a career high 87 PPG throughout the preliminary rounds, although her high scoring would not last, as she fell off hard in the playoffs, eliminating the Cowboys from championship contention, which ultimately her former school would win. She credits her inability to score highly in the playoffs to a "cursed copy of Thomas More's Utopia (that she received for her individual finish) that made her act stupid." Two days after the tournament, she announced that she would be resigning from playing quiz bowl due to increasingly bad impostor syndrome.

Volunteer Work

Victoria has volunteered at several tournaments, including the 2022 Cougar Invitational and the 2023 NAQT Oklahoma State Championship, the 2023 IPNCT, the 2023 SSNCT, and the 2023 MSNCT. She was set to volunteer at the 2023 HSNCT but pulled out for health reasons. She plans to volunteer at more tournaments in the future.

Other Info

Victoria's biggest rival in high school and community college was Marshall Barnett.

Victoria began HRT on August 8, 2023.

Victoria sarcastically credits herself as being a "dumb blonde", a stereotype she feels she fell under after going blonde upon her arrival at OSU.