ASU academic champs place 12th in national tourney

<p>A team of student scholars from Arizona State University placed 12 out of 32 in its division at the national Intercollegiate Championship Tournament held April 3-4 at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport.</p><separator></separator><p>The ASU team included five students from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and one from the W. P. Carey School of Business. They included captain Erin Hutchinson, a senior majoring in global studies; Kenneth Lan, a sophomore majoring in biological sciences; Mary Beth Hutchinson, a sophomore majoring in religious studies and history; Carolyn Moss, a junior majoring in history; alternate Alex Porter, a senior majoring in supply chain management; and alternate Louis Weimer, a freshman majoring in history. The team was coached by Brian Gleim, a graduate student in astrophysics in the School of Earth and Space Exploration.</p><separator></separator><p>Both Hutchinsons, Lan and Moss were members of the 2008 ASU Academic Bowl winning team from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. They secured a wild card spot in the national tournament after a close rematch in the final round of regional play on Feb. 7 against the University of California, Los Angeles. The team came in second but played well enough to earn a wild card invitation.</p><separator></separator><p>Undergraduate Student Government at ASU sponsored the Sun Devil Quiz Bowl club team in the national matchup, which is organized by the National Academic Quiz Tournaments.</p><separator></separator><p>Teams that competed in the national tournament included: University of Alabama; Broward College; Carleton College; Carnegie Mellon University; Case Western Reserve University; University of Chicago; Chipola College; Davidson College; Gonzaga University; Grinnell College; J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College; University of Maryland; McMaster University; Miami University, Ohio; University of Michigan; Mississippi State University; Northeast Alabama Community College; Ohio State University; Princeton University; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; University of California, Los Angeles; Vanderbilt University; Washington University in St. Louis; and Yale University.</p>