Matt Chadbourne is a native of Viburnum, Missouri, and was a member of the quizbowl team there from 2000 to 2004. While there, he led the team to a second-place finish at the 2004 Class 2 state tournament, and led that tournament in scoring. He also led the team to conference and district championships that season and was a member of three All-Conference and All-District teams. Matt now attends Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly University of Missouri-Rolla) where he has served as tournament director for the last four fall and last three spring tournaments at Missouri S&T as well as both iterations of the NAQT Missouri Qualifier, and has also directed six intercollegiate tournaments. In addition to writing for and editing Missouri S&T high school tournaments, he is also a writer for High School Academic Pyramid Questions and a member of PACE. Matt was a member of the 14th place team at the 2008 NAQT ICT and named to the all-tournament team, and is now a founding member of MOQBA. Send an e-mail to Matt
Charles Dees is a native of Kansas City, graduating from North Kansas City High School in 2008. He played on the NKC quizbowl team from 2005 until 2008, and while there teams he competed on won the 2007 and 2008 MSHSAA state championships and 2008 NAQT Missouri Qualifier, along with placing in the top 20 twice at the NAQT High School National Championship and 5th at the PACE National Scholastics Championship. While in high school he helped write and edit the 2008 Prison Bowl, a tournament held at Hunter College High School in New York. Since graduation he has written questions for the 2009 PACE National Championship, and is currently an employee of High School Academic Pyramid Questions. He was named a member of the Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence in June 2008. Charles attends the University of Missouri, where he is majoring in Biology and is a founding member of its quizbowl club. Send an e-mail to Charles
Spencer Fish graduated from Liberty High School in 2009 and currently attends Washington University in St. Louis.
Phillip George is a 2002 graduate of Glendale High School in Springfield, Missouri, and was a member of Glendale's second-place team in the 2002 History Bowl held at Missouri State University (then Southwest Missouri State University). He has attended Missouri State University from 2002 to the present, receiving his Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing with a minor in Technical Writing in 2007 and leading a team that participated in the Region 11 College Bowl Regionals that year. As a graduate student pursuing a Master of Arts in Professional Writing, which he will receive in summer 2010, he played several collegiate tournaments, including ACF Nationals 2009, and served as the first President of Missouri State's Quiz Bowl Club. He has served as moderator and scorekeeper at several events, including three at Missouri State in the 2009-2010 school year.
Charles Hang was born in Shanghai, China, and moved to St. Charles, Missouri outside of St. Louis at the age of five. He played Quiz Bowl for four years from 2005-2009 at Francis Howell Central High School, where he worked to improve and expand the team as Co-Captain his junior year and Captain his senior year. Charles also holds over a dozen scoring awards, including the top scorer award at the 2009 NAQT Missouri Qualifier and an all star award at the 2009 NAQT High School National Championship Tournament. Charles is currently attending Washington University in St. Louis and is a writer for America's premier question writing corporation, National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC (NAQT).
Jeffrey Hill is a Kansas City native and 2005 graduate of Liberty High School. While there he was a member of Liberty's 2003 and 2005 Class 4 MSHSAA state champion and 2004 runner-up teams, earning All-District honors in 2004 and All-State in 2005. He also assisted in editing Liberty's 2003 tournament and was the editor of the 2004 and 2005 tournaments. Jeffrey graduated from Missouri S&T (formerly UMR) in May 2009 where he was a member of the 14th place team at the NAQT ICT in 2008. He assisted with the editing of 5 high school tournaments during his time at Missouri S&T. Jeffrey is a founding member of MOQBA, a member of PACE, and is the operator of scobo.net, a website that hosts his quizbowl-related computer programs. Jeffrey is currently working as a software engineer in the Kansas City area and continues to moderate at numerous tournaments throughout the state. Send an e-mail to Jeffrey
Jason Loy began playing quiz bowl at Cutter Morning Star High School in Hot Springs, Arkansas, leading the team to three state class AA state championships as well as competing at NAQT HSNCT three times (2002 - 2004). He then played at Harding University for four years, qualifying for four national tournaments as well as serving as tournament director for seven high school tournaments. As well as writing questions to several collegiate tournaments, he also contributed to Florida State's 2006 fall high school tournament and helped edit the 2007 edition of ACF Fall. He currently attends graduate school at Missouri State University and started a quiz bowl team there in the fall of 2008.
Paul Nelson began his quiz bowl career at Cuba High School, where he became the first player in Missouri history to be a member of four state championship teams (1995-'98) and was a perennial All-State player. As a high school player, Paul's teams made the playoffs at two national tournaments and he was a member of the 1998 Missouri team at the National Tournament of Academic Excellence at Disney World. Paul then played four years for University of Missouri-Rolla (now Missouri S&T), earning a berth at the 2001 NAQT Division II ICT in St. Louis. Paul joined NAQT as a writer in 2004, and became organizer for Missouri tournaments in 2005. Paul continues to moderate quiz bowl events across the United States, and advises Missouri teams on national competition. Send an e-mail to Paul
Sean Phillips was born on March 24, 1982. He grew up in Boonville, Missouri, and was part of two state championship teams in 1998 and 2000, winning the MSHSAA 3A title in 2000. That year he also was the top player in the MRVC Conference, the district, and set what at that time was a record in 3A individual performance at state. Upon matriculating to Washington University in St. Louis, where while still competing in academic competitions, he began participating in trash events placing in the top 10 individually at TRASHionals in 2001. He wrote his first (and to date only) tournament in 2003 and wrote for PACE NSC in 2003 and 2004. He has co-edited and helped run every WUHSAC since 2002 and been privileged to have have been part of four national championships hosted by WUSTL where he was the team's vice-president from 2002-2004. He is a member of the Missouri Bar having graduated from Saint Louis University School of Law in 2007.
John Scognamiglio is a founding member of the Missouri Quizbowl Alliance. At Eureka High School, he was a perennial all-conference and all-district player, leading Eureka High to its first-ever district title and first trip to state, where they finished 4th in 2002. He was a four-year member of the Academic Competition Organization at Truman State University, where he played in two national tournaments in 2005, finishing fourth with Truman State at CBI Nationals. Send an e-mail to John