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{{Infobox|Name = Nathaniel Kang
 
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|Subjects = History, Sports, Literature, Jazz
 
|highschool = [[St. Margaret's]] (2018 - Present)
 
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'''Nathaniel Kang''' (Class of 2022) is a high school [[History Bowl|history bowl]] and [[quizbowl]] player for [[St. Margaret's|St. Margaret's Episcopal]] in Southern California. A seasoned veteran of [[National History Bee and Bowl|NHBB]] competition, as president and founder of the '''Saint Margaret's History Club''', Kang was also responsible for establishing the school's history & QB teams as well.
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'''Nathaniel Kang''' (Class of 2022) is a high school player who currently [[Captain|captains]] [[St. Margaret's]] in the SoCal circuit. Primarily a history specialist, he established the SMES program in 2018, as well as the school's history and quizbowl clubs. He has competed in [[National History Bee and Bowl|NHBB]] competition for six years but only began playing general QB as a high school freshman.
  
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Though the Tartans have several team members, as of spring 2019, Kang often ends up playing solo in tournaments.
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==Career==
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He is a four-time [[history bee]] national semifinalist, consecutively from 2015-2018. At 2018 middle school nats, he finished 5th in the country in the 8th grade division, but missed out on reaching finals after narrowly losing to [[Cooper Roh]] in the semis. Perhaps his best overall individual performance came when he placed seventh in JV at the 2019 [[US History Bee]], which marked his first finals appearance in a major nationals event.
  
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==Individual career==
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At 2016 history bee regional finals, he won a close final against [[Ameya Singh]] following a furious comeback. At the 2019 San Diego NHBB tournament, he beat [[Amogh Kulkarni]] by one tossup to win bee finals. However, his streak of five consecutive years winning a regional title (2015-2019) in history bee ended in 2020, when he finished 3rd behind Kulkarni and fellow Arcadia player [[Ryan Sun]] on C set.
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Nate is a four-time national semifinalist in the [[National History Bee and Bowl]], achieving that feat every year consecutively since 2015. In his best nationals performance to date, at the 2018 Middle School National History Bee championships, he finished 5th in the country in the 8th grade division, but missed out on reaching the final round after losing to [[Cooper Roh]] in the semifinals by a margin of 1 question, despite leading for much of the game. (That semifinal room also included another member of the legendary "[[Category:Four Horsemen|Four Horsemen of Quizbowl]]", [[Shiva Oswal]].)
 
  
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He placed seventh in JV at the 2019 [[US History Bee]], eliminating reigning ACE NHB national champ [[Robert Muniz]] in the semifinals to finally advance to his first-ever finals appearance in a major Nationals event. Kang has also won the history bee regional championship in SoCal every year since 2015, the year his playing career began. He has won two consecutive national championships in the National Sports & Entertainment Bee as well, in 2017 (7th grade) & 2018 (high school JV).
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Kang also won two consecutive national championships in [[trash|Sports & Entertainment]] Bee, in 2017 (ACE 7th grade division) & 2018 (NHBB high school JV).
  
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Despite his history experience, Nate only started to play general quizbowl as a freshman, in late 2018. Still, he was invited to the 2019 [[NAQT]] [[IPNCT]] in Chicago, but did not attend.
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He began playing general quizbowl as a freshman.
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==Personal==
 
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He is an avid sports fan, and among his favorite teams are UCLA, the Los Angeles Angels, and Chelsea F.C. He takes pride in his Korean heritage. He runs cross country and track & field for St. Margaret's.
 
  
 
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Revision as of 16:22, 22 April 2020

Nathaniel Kang
Noted subjects History, Sports, Literature, Jazz
High school St. Margaret's (2018 - Present)
Middle school Camelot Academy (2017 - 2018)
Grace Classical (2015 - 2017)
Stats HDWhite • NAQT

Nathaniel Kang (Class of 2022) is a high school player who currently captains St. Margaret's in the SoCal circuit. Primarily a history specialist, he established the SMES program in 2018, as well as the school's history and quizbowl clubs. He has competed in NHBB competition for six years but only began playing general QB as a high school freshman.

Career

He is a four-time history bee national semifinalist, consecutively from 2015-2018. At 2018 middle school nats, he finished 5th in the country in the 8th grade division, but missed out on reaching finals after narrowly losing to Cooper Roh in the semis. Perhaps his best overall individual performance came when he placed seventh in JV at the 2019 US History Bee, which marked his first finals appearance in a major nationals event.

At 2016 history bee regional finals, he won a close final against Ameya Singh following a furious comeback. At the 2019 San Diego NHBB tournament, he beat Amogh Kulkarni by one tossup to win bee finals. However, his streak of five consecutive years winning a regional title (2015-2019) in history bee ended in 2020, when he finished 3rd behind Kulkarni and fellow Arcadia player Ryan Sun on C set.

Kang also won two consecutive national championships in Sports & Entertainment Bee, in 2017 (ACE 7th grade division) & 2018 (NHBB high school JV).

He began playing general quizbowl as a freshman.

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