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This article is about the SMFHS Academic Challenge team created in 2005, not the team in the late 1900s.

The Stow-Munroe High School Academic Challenge team is a high school-based quiz tournament team in Stow, Ohio at Stow-Munroe Falls High School. The team was founded in 2005, and participates in Ohio Academic Challenge (OAC) as well as National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT) and the Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence (PACE) tournaments. In the 2007-2008 season the team qualified for NAQT nationals three times, PACE nationals once, made the finals in the fall and winter OAC tournaments, and got fourth place overall in the Academic Challenge television show. At the NAQT nationals in May, 2008, the team was the highest rated Ohio team in the nation and had the highest rated individual Ohio player, Ike Jose. The team is coached by Catherine Howard.

Current Varsity Members
Nathan "Ike" Jose (2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008)

Linus Marchetti (2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008)

Timothy Soeder (2006-2007, 2007-2008)

Current JV Members
Robert Cardoso (2007-2008)

Zachary Halasz (2007-2008)

Caleb Morgan (2007-2008)

Varun Narayan (2007-2008)

Samantha Purk (2007-2008)

Christopher Sedar (2007-2008)

William Thorsson (2007-2008)

Robert Woodward (2007-2008)

Past Members
Michael Crow (2006-2007, 2007-2008)

Christopher Vasquez (2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008)

Laura Dougherty (2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007)

Mary Lugi (2005-2006)

Laura Pepper (2005-2006)

Coaches
Catherine Howard (2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008)

A comma indicates the start of a new season.

Ike Jose
Ike Jose, since the team's creation, has been the all-star player. After the 2006-2007 season, he decided to participate in more tournaments as an individual or with other schools. Some of his 2007-2008 season individual achievements include:

10th at the NAQT state invitational

3rd at the PACE state tournament

1st at the NAQT state tournament and 3rd as a one-man team (playing as SMF)

10th at NAQT national tournament

Creation (2005-2007)
The team was created by Howard in 2005. In its first two years the team only played nine matches and only had 6 members by the end of the 2006-2007 season. Because of winning eight of the nine matches, however, it was ranked third in state and 48th in the nation. There were major set-backs, however, and in the very first year the student coach was expelled and her friend quit because of it. The team continued, though, and in the summer of 2007 some team members decided to take the initiative to study and try to recruit new members in hopes that it would boost team success.

2007-2008 Season
In the 2007-2008 season the team's success greatly increased. With more than a dozen members two JV teams were established. Although the JV had a mediocre season, the varsity team won $3,000 on the television show for winning their match and being in the top 10 schools overall, placed second in the fall and first in the winter OAC tournaments, and won the PACE regional (qualifying them for PACE nationals). The major event of the season was the NAQT national tournament. Thirteen Ohio teams qualified; Stow-Munroe Falls High School, Walnut Hills High School, Solon High School, Northmont High School, Canfield High School, The Columbus Academy, Findlay High School, The Miami Valley School, Ottawa Hills High School, Poland Seminary High School, Tippecanoe High School, William V. Fisher Catholic High School and Garfield Heights High School. Of the thirteen teams, Stow did the best by scoring more points overall than Solon, the only other Ohio team in the playoffs. In the nation, Ike Jose got 10th place overall, making him the highest scoring Ohio player and team leader by scoring about 80% of all individual toss-ups. Other competing team members included Crow, Marchetti, Soeder, and Vasquez. By the end of the season, the team was ranked 3rd in Ohio (behind Garfield Heights and Ottawa Hills) and 90th in the nation with a 54-24 record and with almost double the amount of state teams from 2007.

Major Tournaments

 * Gold and 1st means the team won the competition.
 * Silver and 2nd means the team was the runner-up in the competition.
 * Pink and Placed means the team placed at the tournament but was not first or second.
 * Black means the team did not attend the tournament.
 * A hyphen (-) means the team did not place at the tournament.
 * An asterisk (*) next to tournament results means the team qualified for another tournament at that tournament. An asterisk next to the tournament means the tournament must have been previously qualified for.
 * This does not include unaffiliated participations by team members.