ILLINOIS THIRD CONSECUTIVE NATIONAL TITLE!
Here are the Champions.
Asst. Coach Satish Bhatt, Shaarav Bhatt, Tommy Vondra, Aarush Patel, Anthony Lukashevich, Noah Schulman, and Head Coach Lisa Groh
When Quest Academy (Palatine, IL) won the Elementary National Academic Championship in 2021, it was the first time an Illinois school had won a national championship at any level. Next Generation School (Champaign, IL) not only won the tournament in 2022, it was, after the Finals, declared the greatest team ever. Those two schools met in the finals of the 2023 competition.
The Next Generation vs Quest title match was tied at 110 after the bonus round. It was tied again at 200 after the Seventy Seconds Round. Midway through the final period the score stood at Next Generation 280, Quest 300.
Quest swept this pair of visual questions which turned out to be the game’s difference:
Here’s a fish painting by Paul Klee. What style of painting is represented by this abstraction?
Ans. Surrealism
Tiger’s Nest Monastery, perched on a steep cliff about 2,700 feet above the town of Paro, is found in which Eastern Himalayan country?
Ans. Bhutan
The Lisa Groh-coached Quest Academy became the first school to win a second Elementary National Academic Championship, doing so by a title game margin of 360-280.
Next Generation (Champaign, IL)
(l to r) Samith Ramanath, Boyou Huang, Bryan Zhao
winners of our 7 tournaments
- 2017 – Hawken School (Lyndhurst, OH)
- 2018 – Westwood School (Addison, TX)
- 2019 – Opelika Middle School (Opelika, AL)
- 2020 – Winburn Elementary (Lexington, KY)
- 2021 – Quest Academy (Palatine, IL)
- 2022 – Next Generation (Champaign, IL)
2023 – Quest Academy (Palatine, IL)