GCCC Quizards Successfully Host 2023 NAQT Snow Bowl
[Garden City, KS] December 7, 2023 -- The Garden City Community College Quiz Bowl Team, the Quizards, hosted the 2023 National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT) Snow Bowl on Saturday, December 2nd. This tournament involved 17 teams with 70 students from 7 different community colleges in Kansas and Oklahoma. Matthew Blood, GCCC Quizards member, finished in the top 5 overall scorers!
"As far as I am aware, this is the first NAQT of this size to happen at Garden City Community College," shared Cody Cundiff, who coaches the team along with Dr. Haley York. "This tournament was the first major tournament for most of our team. Haley and I are both very proud of how they handled their first bout of hearing approximately 500 questions in one day! Our very own Matthew Blood finished in the top five overall scorers in the tournament!"
The all-day event included a mountain of support from volunteers of staff, faculty, former Quizards, and former faculty members who pulled together to help run a tournament of this magnitude, Cody shared.
"We would like to thank Keely Babcock, Jamie Durler, Dr. Jean Ferguson, Cindy Flores, Jeremy Gigot, Veronica Goosey, Dr. Joshua Kelly, Steve Kucharik, Dr. Marc Malone, Dana Nanninga, Dru Saddler, Aubrey Simon, and Jonathan Whitacre. We truly could not have done this without them. We would also like to give a big shout-out to Marie Ross and her team at Great Western Dining for providing lunch for a little more than 70 extra people on a Saturday," Cody added.
The Quizards next tournament will be Sectionals as they venture to Cowley Community College in January.
The Quizards are a Collegiate Quiz Bowl academic team that participates in fun, fast-paced, quiz-style tournaments. Quiz questions are drawn from any topics covered by a community college curriculum: math, literature, art, physical and social sciences, history, religion, geography, music, and current events. For questions about the Quizards, please contact cody.cundiff@gcccks.edu or haley.york@gcccks.edu.
Matthew Blood, GCCC Quizards member, finishes in the top 5 overall scorers during
the 2023 NAQT Snow Bowl at GCCC on Dec. 2, 2023.
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