- December 23rd, 2017, 7:18 am
#543476
One of my favorite Quiz Bowl stories is NASA related.
In 2014, Longwood was hosting the Big South Quiz Bowl Tournament and asked LU if we could bring our experienced moderator to run the stats for the tournament. When I told their tournament director that our statistician had graduated and was interning at NASA, I was told that this was a paid position and would even cover her hotel and transportation for the weekend.
So our statistician agreed to come, and that Friday night she overheard a Coastal Carolina girl bragging that she couldn't wait to play us because "Liberty wasn't a real school" and "certainly wouldn't know anything about science."
At breakfast the next morning, our NASA-interning alumna shared that story with our team, which really angered our female captain who was majoring biochemistry. Well, when we played them later that morning, Liberty beat Coastal 445-65.
A few weeks later, that same team finished 20th in the country at nationals, and our MVP later became a 4-time Jeopardy champion. And the statistician who was interning at NASA? That turned into a full-time job, and she has been working at NASA ever since.
"If Cider hit the books any harder, they'd press charges"--Lefty
"When you’re right you’re right"--Purple
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