ASU academic team heads to national tourney

<p>A team of student scholars from Arizona State University will compete in the national Intercollegiate Championship Tournament held April 3-4 at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport.</p><separator></separator><p>Representing ASU will be the four original members of the ASU Academic Bowl winning team from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. They are: 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; and Carolyn Moss, a junior majoring in history.</p><separator></separator><p>Alternates include Louis Weimer, a freshman majoring in history in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Alex Porter, a senior majoring in supply chain management in the W.P. Carey School of Business. The team is coached by Brian Gleim, a graduate student in astrophysics in the School of Earth and Space Exploration.</p><separator></separator><p>The team secured a wild card spot in the national tournament after a close rematch in the final round of regional play on Feb. 7 against University of California, Los Angeles. The ASU team came in second but played well enough to earn a wild card invitation.</p><separator></separator><p>Undergraduate Student Government is sponsoring the ASU team in the national matchup, which is organized by the National Academic Quiz Tournaments.</p><separator></separator><p>Other teams scheduled to compete in the national tournament are: 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>