Sports & Activities: NHS

For the love of trivia. . .

...Students with wealth of factual knowledge should join Scholars’ Bowl teams next fall

April 28, 2008

Scholars’ Bowl for the 2008-2009 season is peeping over the horizon, hoping to lure anxious students to join the Northeast High School’s varsity and junior-varsity teams.
Varsity consists of mostly juniors and seniors, but because no juniors were on the 2007-2008 teams, positions will be open to sophomores and even freshmen to fill out the ranks, according to Barbara Crim, Scholars’ Bowl coach.
Practices are on Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 7 a.m. until 8 a.m. “I buy Little Debbie’s Cakes for everyone to eat, and even sometimes Long Johns from Wal-Mart, when I have the money,” Crim said.
“We practice with the buzzers and set the room up just like real meets. We also have seven or eight books a reader uses to ask questions. Whoever answers correctly receives points and has a better chance of making the varsity team,” Crim said.
Returning team members include sophomores Nick Popejoy, Makenzie Stansbury, Sam Truesdell, and possibly Chris Ward. Returning freshmen are Elizabeth Banks, Ally Bolds, Josh Tingley, and Dakota Kuhel.
“I have already started to try to talk some others into it, especially sophomore Ian Horn and freshman Chris Katzer, but mentioning it too much to anyone of them can have the opposite effect, so I try not to ask them too many times because it becomes irritating,” Crim said.
“This is the perfect organization for anyone who wants or likes to play factual games such as Trivial Pursuit. Students whose heads are full of useful, as well as unuseful facts, shine at these events,” Crim said. “If a student reads a lot and remembers all the significant or insignificant details, Scholars’ Bowl is a perfect organization if he or she wants to remove the clutter from his or her brain. A brain that is too full can be heavy if one does not use up the facts.”
“We will also host our own tournament sometime in very late October,” Crim said.
“Remember, everyone is welcome to come to a practice to see if the process might appeal to him or her,” Crim said. “The returning players hope to see some new faces in the fall. Also, anyone who plays all season is eligible to letter.”
Meets begin at the end of October and continue through the first of February. Regionals are on the schedule for Southeast Cherokee, and State has not been announced.
“I even welcome basketball players because they can stop when their season begins and come back for Regionals and State if possible,” Crim said.