ALAMOSA — With its championship win on the FOX21/SOCO CW Rocky Mountain Quiz Kids Show, the quiz bowl team from Alamosa High School proved themselves worthy to play on a national stage. On Friday, April 26, the team will represent their school in a 143-team national competition: National Academic Quiz Tournaments' Small School National Championship Tournament.
Quiz bowl is a competitive, academic, interscholastic activity for teams of four students. Quiz bowl teams use buzzers to answer questions about science, math, history, literature, mythology, geography, social science, current events, sports, and popular culture. The matches feature a blend of individual competition and team collaboration, since no individual player is likely to be an expert in all subject areas. Participation in quiz bowl both reinforces lessons from the classroom and encourages players to develop new intellectual interests.
This will be Alamosa's first time attending the Small School National Championship Tournament. In 2023, they qualified but were not able to attend.
The SSNCT is the only quiz bowl national championship pitting small schools against each other.  It has one division containing non-selective public schools with 500 or fewer students in their top three grades, and another division for other schools with 350 or fewer students in their top three grades.
The team, in the Traditional Public Schools Division, will be captained by Jake Fricke, who will be joined by Brock Benton, Madelyn Garberich, and Brice Wisener. The team will be coached by Jason Duncan, Erika Henderson, and Matthew Relyea.
Tournament results will be updated throughout the three days of competition at www.naqt.com/go/stats/14701 so everyone can follow along and see how the team does.  You can also follow #ssnct on Twitter.