2025 NSC

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2025 PACE NSC
Edited by Geoffrey Wu (head editor)
Champion Strake Jesuit
Runner-up Lexington
Third Audrain County AT
Fourth Hunter
High scorer Joshua Koch, Grosse Pointe South
Site Rosemont, IL
Field 84
Stats stats

The 2025 PACE National Scholastic Championship was held on June 8th & 9th at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare in Rosemont, IL, in the Chicago metropolitan area. Strake Jesuit defeated Lexington to take the title; in placing 2nd, Lexington (whose team consisted entirely of 10th-graders) took the JV title and became the highest-ranking JV team at any NSC to date.

Trivia

  • By placing 2nd, Lexington also secured the highest-ever finish by a team from the New England region at a high school national championship. (Teams from New England had already won championships at the middle school and collegiate levels.)
  • This is the first year since 2002 in which the champion team in that year's HSNCT (Livingston) did not attend the NSC at all.
  • The tournament used prelim brackets of six teams each. One such bracket, "Anatolia", ended with an extremely rare five-way tie between five teams at 3-2. PACE deployed a predetermined tiebreaker procedure on half-packets to determine entry into three distinct playoff tiers.