Last year (2024) was the best Brentwood’s Scholar Bowl team had ever done, winning districts and making it past the quarterfinals of the state tournament, but this year, the team has already achieved both of those milestones. Now, the team is headed to Chicago to compete in nationals this weekend!
Scholar Bowl is an academic competition where teams of students compete and answer questions from a wide range of topic like literature, history, science, current events and more. It’s a team-based competition that uses a buzzer, kinda similar to Jeopardy.
“Questions start off simple, so that the people who are newer to Scholar Bowl are able to answer, then they begin to get more difficult,” said Ms. Musterman, BHS’s Scholar Bowl coach. Ms. Musterman began coaching in 2018, making this her 7th season coaching for BHS.
Not only has this year’s team won districts again this year, this past Tuesday, April 22, the team traveled to Bloomfield, Missouri, to compete in the state quarterfinal rounds where they pulled off a 2-game win against Bloomfield. This win means that the team will get to compete in the MSHSAA state tournament in Columbia on Friday, May 9th.
Scholar Bowl students work hard during practice but also by paying attention to what they are learning in school, for they never know what come up as a question in a competition. “In practice, Ms. Musterman helps us study subjects and gives us guides to study; she’s also very encouraging in games,” said sophomore Odyss Morgan.
The team has obviously been doing great as a team, but they’ve also earned accolades as individuals. This year, juniors Alex Tung and Rohan Dixit placed third and fourth as All District scorers.
In addition to the state tournament, the Scholar Bowl team has also qualified for a separate national tournament, which is this weekend, April 25-27 in Chicago, Illinois!
“They work really hard, and I’m proud of each and every one of them,” said Ms. Musterman.
Good luck to the Scholar Bowl team this weekend!
