Rockville High School

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RHS's It's Academic/Quizmaster Team

2008 D.C. Area CHAMPIONS and

2008 D.C. - Baltimore - Virginia Regional CHAMPIONS

08 - 09 Team Records QUIZMASTER: 0-0, MABL: 0-0 , IT'S ACADEMIC: 0-0

Coaches

Dr. Bob Lerner

Dr. Dave Goodrich

Seniors

None

Juniors

Raheel Awan

Tyler Babich

Elisa Mathon

Captain-Greg Rind

Erin Strosnider

Sophomores

Kelly Reeder

Asena Acar

Freshmen

None

Announcements

Aug 08 - Tryouts will be held Thursday, September 4th after school.They will be in room 1037, please be there by 2:30. Note --- practices are Monday and Wednesday nights from 7:30 to 9.
May 08 -Team wins the DC area final, and then goes onto victory over the Baltimore and Virginia area champs in the It's Academic Super Bowl.

its ac team

Then, seniors Ben Bloom, Josh Lerner, and Megan Roosevelt and host Mac McGarry at the April 26th taping of It's Academic.

Team History

The Rockville High School It's Academic team was founded in the 1970's. RHS teams have won seven national championships throughout their history. All of which were in the 80's with coach Kevin Keegan. In 1990, the team finished third in theNational Tournament of Academic Excellence in Disney World (later called the Panasonic Academic Challenge). Linda Mencarini, who coached with Keegan from 1997 to 1999, also took the team to the It's Academic DC Finals in 2000 and 2001. The team also has many successful alumni.

David Hamilton, who captained the RHS 1994 team won $32,000 on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. He also competed on the 1994 Team Maryland that finished 5th in the nation.
Sharon Kristal played in the 1990 Teen Jeopardy tournament, graduated from Princeton.
Aaron Benor and Matt Denio played on the 1999 Panasonic team that finished third in the nation.
Daniel Maggin played on Team Maryland in the 2000 National Championship at Panasonic. He also competed on Jeopardy in May 2008.

Special thanks to Kevin Keegan for providing the information for this section. Mr. Keegan coached the Rockville team from 1982 - 1988, 89 - 91, and 97-99 and currently hosts Quizmaster.

Any questions about the program? Ask any of the above people.

This site is maintained by Tyler Babich. Many thanks to Mr. White for helping me get started.