Norfork Quiz Bowl Team wins title for second year in a row

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The Norfork High School Quiz Bowl Team has won the class 1A championship for the Arkansas Governor’s Association’s Quiz Bowl for the second year in a row, an accomplishment which hasn’t occurred in the school’s history. The team faced a formidable opponent, Haas Hall Academy in Bentonville, but came out on top Saturday afternoon at the Arkansas Education Television Network (AETN) in Conway.

Norfork High School English teacher Stacy Havner and Health teacher Pam Braun are the team’s coaches. Havner says two of the students from last years team returned to help bring the them to victory. For three students it was their first time on the Senior High Quiz Bowl Team and although they were nervous Havner and Braun had faith they could pull off the victory.

Havner says their opponent, Haas Hall Academy, is tough to compete against because they are a private school and from a larger district and able to choose students to compete from a larger pool. They have won the 1A classification quiz bowl five times since 2008.

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She says although Norfork is a rural school, with 82 percent of the student population on free or reduced lunch, that didn’t factor into their ability to win.

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Principal of Norfork High School, Bobby Hulse, says he is extremely proud of the win.

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Hulse attributes a part of the team’s success to the support of the community.

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Hulse says the group of students are dedicated and their hard work was recognized by one of AETN’s spokespersons when he mentioned Norfork having a good program several times.Havner says the Quiz Bowl team will immediately begin prepping for next year’s competition.

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