Scholastic Bowl

DID YOU KNOW -- At 87%, more VHSL member schools participate in Scholastic Bowl than any other academic activity.  This fact is all the more impressive since Scholastic Bowl is the League's newest activity, launched during the 1997-98 school year.

Scholastic Bowl, pits four-person teams in a test of knowledge of English, math, science, social studies and miscellaneous areas like current events, entertainment, the arts and sports.  A double-elimination format in six rounds of team-on-team face-offs is used to pare a field of the top eight schools in each group to the eventual champion.  The field includes two representatives from each geographic region of the state. 

In 11 years of Scholastic Bowl, Radford has become the dominant Group A team with five titles to its credit.  Charlottesville of Group AA also has five titles, four of them consecutive.  In Group AAA competition, eight of 11 final matchups have been between Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology and Thomas Jefferson/Maggie Walker Governor's School with the former emerging as champion eight times.  The only three schools to penetrate the might of the two powerhouses and garner a runner-up spot have been Lake Braddock (1998), Albemarle (2002) and Ocean Lakes (2006).

In 2009, Thomas Jefferson S&T won the Group AAA title, while in Group AA James Monroe High School of Fredericksburg clamed its first championship.  In Group A, Rapphannock County also won its first-ever Scholastic Bowl crown.

2,008 boys and 1,552 girls at 270 member schools participated in scholastic bowl in 2008-09.

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