2009-10 Pre-Season High School Quizbowl Poll
Congratulations to Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School for Government and International Studies’ A team (Richmond, Virginia) for finishing first in the 2009-10 pre-season high school quiz bowl poll. With 15 ballots received, Maggie Walker received the first place vote on 14 of them.
State College Area High School (State College, Pennsylvania) finished second and received the other first place vote. Paul M. Dorman High School’s A team (Roebuck, South Carolina), Hunter College High School (New York City, New York) and Southside High School (Greenville, South Carolina) round out the top five.
Congratulations to these teams and to all 41 teams that received votes.
Complete results are after the jump.
1. Maggie Walker A, 374 points, 14 first place votes, 15 of 15 ballots, highest vote: 1st, lowest vote: 2nd
2. State College, 360 points, 1 first place vote, 15 of 15 ballots, highest vote: 1st, lowest vote: 3rd
3. Dorman A, 320 points, 15 of 15 ballots, highest vote: 2nd, lowest vote: 11th
4. Hunter, 315 points, 15 of 15 ballots, highest vote: 3rd, lowest vote: 12th
5. Southside, 310 points, 15 of 15 ballots, highest vote: 3rd, lowest vote: 10th
6. Georgetown Day School (Washington, DC), 291 points, 15 of 15 ballots, highest vote: 3rd, lowest vote: 12th
7. Liberal Arts and Science Academy (Austin, Texas), 279 points, 15 of 15 ballots, highest vote: 3rd, lowest vote: 18th
8. Hoover High School (Hoover, Alabama), 263 points, 15 of 15 ballots, highest vote: 3rd, lowest vote: 14th
9. Mission San Jose High School (Fremont, California), 234 points, 14 of 15 ballots, highest vote: 6th, lowest vote: 13th
10. Detroit Country Day School (Beverly Hills, Michigan), 228 points, 15 of 15 ballots, highest vote: 4th, lowest vote: 19th
11. Paul Laurence Dunbar High School (Lexington, Kentucky), 204 points, 15 of 15 ballots, highest vote: 6th, lowest vote: 20th
12. Eden Prairie High School (Eden Prairie, Minnesota), 187 points, 15 of 15 ballots, highest vote: 10th, lowest vote: 17th
13. Charter School of Wilmington (Wilmington, Delaware), 186 points, 15 of 15 ballots, highest vote: 8th, lowest vote: 24th
14. Raleigh Charter High School (Raleigh, North Carolina), 162 points, 15 of 15 ballots, highest vote: 9th, lowest vote: 23rd
15. Detroit Catholic Central High School (Novi, Michigan), 156 points, 14 of 15 ballots, highest vote: 10th, lowest vote: 22nd
16. DuPont Manual High School (Louisville, Kentucky), 151 points, 15 of 15 ballots, highest vote: 8th, lowest vote: 21st
17. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (Alexandria, Virginia), 150 points, 15 of 15 ballots, highest vote: 11th, lowest vote: 21st
18. Torrey Pines High School (San Diego, California), 132 points, 13 of 15 ballots, highest vote: 9th, lowest vote: 23rd
19. St. Anselm’s Abbey School (Washington, DC), 87 points, 15 of 15 ballots, highest vote: 10th, lowest vote: 25th
20. Hume-Fogg High School (Nashville, Tennessee), 59 points, 9 of 15 ballots, highest vote: 15th, lowest vote: 25th
21. La Jolla High School (La Jolla, California), 56 points, 11 of 15 ballots, highest vote: 16th, lowest vote: 24th
22. Kellenberg Memorial High School (Uniondale, New York), 44 points, 8 of 15 ballots, highest vote: 7th, lowest vote: 24th
23. Walt Whitman High School (Bethesda, Maryland), 43 points, 7 of 15 ballots, highest vote: 11th, lowest vote: 25th
24. Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet School (Nashville, Tennessee), 32 points, 8 of 15 ballots, highest vote: 18th, lowest vote: 25th
25. Santa Monica High School (Santa Monica, California), 31 points, 8 of 15 ballots, highest vote: 18th, lowest vote: 25th
Also receiving votes: Alpharetta, 28 points; Pensacola, 24 points; Walton, 22 points; Walnut Hills, 22 points; Northmont, 20 points; Chattahoochee, 14 points; Livingston, 14 points; Walter Johnson, 12 points; State College B, 11 points; Plymouth, 10 points; Dorman B, 9 points; Maggie Walker B, 9 points; Bergen County, 9 points; Brookwood, 7 points; Solon, 6 points; Rockford Auburn, 4 points
Thank you to the voters, in no particular order: Matt Jackson, William Horton, Matt Weiner, Trey Taralia, Andrew Chrzanowski, Jasper Lee, Matt Bollinger, Benji Nguyen, David Garb and Nick Bergeon (joint ballot), Stephen Liu, Aidan Mehigan, Wes Austin, Mehdi Razvi, Graham Moyer and Jarret Greene.
For more information and discussion of the poll, click here.
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