2006
Scholastic Bowl Summary
The
scholastic bowl team earned four banners in 2005-2006. PHHS was first in the Prairieland Conference with a 20-1 record, second in the
Peoria Area League with a 15-2 record, first at the 16 team Bloomington Masonic
regional and second in the state tournament, and first at the Peoria County
Tournament. The team won their IHSA
Regional. The varsity team competed
in 86 contests on 20 dates with a final record of 73-13. This is the most victories in the 20
years the school has competed in scholastic bowl. The varsity school record is now 692-374
in the 20 years of competition.
Memorable
moments included defeating IVC, Sterling, and
Bloomington in
the State Masonic Tournament before losing to IHSA State AA champion Palatine
Fremd in the championship match. Conference member Elmwood was
fourth. In the conference series
PHHS beat Lewistown on the last question in the final showdown between the two
schools thus going 2-1 against friendly rival Lewistown and taking the
conference title with a 20-1 record while Lewistown was 19-2. Earlier in the conference season PHHS
defeated Havana
with a correct spelling of the capital of Iceland, i.e.
R-e-y-k-j-a-v-i-k. IVC was defeated at the Peoria County
Tournament, in the PAL, and at Masonic State. The 2nd place IHSA State
finishers did, however, defeat Peoria Heights for the IHSA Sectional
Championship in close round robin play where any of a number of circumstances
would have advanced any of the four teams (IVC was 2-1, PHHS was 2-1, Eureka
1-2, and St. Bede 1-2). In the
PAWAC at BU we lost to Normal West by only five points after trailing by 110 at
half-time, lost to Bloomington in overtime, and to Morton by 15
points ending up 4th place.
For the first time a number of PHHS students participated in a Solo
Tournament at the U of I.
Team
leader in toss-ups was senior Dylan Troxel with 471 toss-up questions
answered. Fellow seniors Jeff Schwindenhammer with 64, Hal Woo with 56, Greg Chamberlain with
48, and Mike Casey with 27 were
followed by sophomores Greg Gauf with 21 and Zack Troxel
with 11 and freshman Burl Rolett with 3. Sophomore Justin Hayse also competed in varsity matches. A total of 701 toss-ups were answered
for a 8.2 per quiz average. The
IHSA Team Academic Achievement Award was earned for having better than a 3.0
team GPA. Greg Chamberlain and Hal
Woo earned IHSA Scholarship
recognition for maintaining a 3.5 or better GPA.
The
frosh-soph record was 27-22 on eleven dates. Sophomore Justin Hayse served as captain and answered 62 toss-up
questions. Others sophomore totals
included Greg Gauf with 35, Sam Boles with 20, Zack Troxel with 18, Julio Soto with 10, William Jenkins with 6,
and Matt Wills with 5 toss-up questions answered. Freshmen Burl Rolett answered 84 toss-ups, and fellow freshmen Willow
Crane, Cory Scribner, and Kelsey
Knight answered 42, 3, and 2 respectively.
Sophomore Kayla Myers attended a number of matches and intends to join
the team next year. The team
answered 287 questions for a 5.9 per quiz average. Mrs. Sheila
Bussone was the freshmen-sophomore
coach.
A
varsity letter was awarded to sophomore Greg Gauf. Varsity
pins were awarded to Dylan Troxel for a fourth year letter, to Jeff
Schwindenhammer and Hal Woo for third year letters,
and Mike Casey and Greg Chamberlain for second year letters. Junior varsity letters were awarded to
sophomore Julio Soto and freshmen
Willow Crane and Burl Rolett. Junior Varsity second year pins were
awarded to sophomores Justin Hayse and Zack Troxel.
Participation certificates go to sophomores Sam Boles, William Jenkins,
and Matt Wills and freshmen Kelsey
Knight and Cory Scribner. Dylan Troxel received all-sectional and all-state
recognition for the second year. He also earned
all-tournament recognition four times and received recognition for being the
varsity captain.
Fifty
point club plaques were awarded to Jeff Schwindenhammer and Hal Woo and a One Hundred Point Club
plaque to Dylan Troxel in recognition of their answering of
64, 56, and 471 toss-up questions respectively. Dylan graduates with a school record
1143 career varsity toss-ups answered.
Jeff had 165, Hal 159, Greg
81, and Mike had 42 for their career totals.
Thanks
to the five seniors and all the parents, staff, and non-scholastic bowl students
who helped make this another successful, fun, and learning year.
Prairieland Conference
Results
The
Peoria
Heights High
School scholastic bowl team placed first in the
Prairieland Conference championship with a 20-1
record. Conference members include
second place Lewistown, Havana, Elmwood, Abingdon, Bushnell, Astoria, and Cuba. This is the 9th year
out of the last 11 that PHHS has been conference champion. The conference contests were held
over seven dates with three quizzes each evening. All-conference medallions were awarded
to Ben Sheets (12) of Lewistown and Dylan Troxel (12) of PHHS tied for the top spot
with 98 toss-up questions answered,
Alex Davis (11) of Elmwood with 60, Hannah Kline (11) of Lewistown with
39, Jeff Schwindenhammer (12) of PHHS with 35, Tyler
McGrew (12) of BPC with 32, Molly Gass (12) of Elmwood
with 31, Andy Schaffer (12) of Astoria and Kyle Dinges
(10) of Abingdon tied with 30, and Anna Van Voorhis
(12) of Astoria plus , Derek
Smith (11) and Dustin Smith (11) of Havana all tied at 28. Other Heights students answering
conference questions included Mike Casey (12) with 12, Hal Woo (12) with 12, Greg Chamberlain
(12) with 10, Burl Rolett with 2, Greg Gauf (10) and Zack Troxel (10)
with one each.
2006 Prairieland Conference
Champions.
The varsity team celebrates after winning the Regional
Tournament.
2006 County Tournament Champions.