Swarthmore College Bowl History Highlights

Team awards

National titles

  • NAQT Undergraduate Championship, 1998 (Fred Bush, Ed Cohn, Josh Miller, Joe Robins)

First place

  • Yale's Bulldogs over Broadway, 2000 (Peter Austin, Rebecca Paul, Mark Romanowsky)
  • MIT's Beaver Bonspiel V, 1998 (Rhett Buttermore, Cohn, Arcadia Falcone, Miller)
  • Princeton Univ.'s BuzzerFest I, 1997 (Bush, Cohn, Jessica Harbour, Miller)

Second place

  • Maryland's Terrapin Invitational Tournament, 2001 (Austin, Schak, Chris White)
  • Delaware's Baby Hen II, 2001 (White, Michael Noda, Adrian Packel, Jeff Traczynski, Matt Bulnes-Fowles)
  • Maryland's Terrapin Invitational Tournament (Division II), 2000 (Noda, Duenas, Romanowsky, Traczynski, Packel)
  • Yale's Bulldogs over Broadway, 2000 (Falcone, Dan Fairchild, Benjamin Schak, Jonah Volk)
  • NAQT Northeast Sectionals, 1998 (Bush, Cohn, Miller)
  • MIT's Beaver Bonspiel IV, 1997 (Bush, Cohn, Harbour, Miller)
  • UMBC's Bigger Cooler Buzzer Convocation II, 1997 (Paul Arandia and Robins, with James Dinan, formerly of GWU)
  • Johns Hopkins's Blue Jay Bash, 1997 (Cohn, Christine Lattin, Miller, Robins)
  • CBI Region 3 Championships, 1996 (Dan Berenberg, Bush, Cohn, Patrick Friel, Jeff Lockman)

Third/Fourth place or Semifinalists

  • SNEWT VII, 2002 (Schricker, Fiedler, Winer) (fourth place)
  • D.S. Hamilton Inv. Tourn., 2002 (Duenas, White, Oleksa, Bulnes-Fowles)
  • Beaver Bonspiel VII, 2001 (Duenas, Volk, Noda, Traczynski) (fourth place)
  • Delaware's Baby Hen, 2000 (participants unknown) (fourth place)
  • D.S. Hamilton Inv. Tourn., 2000 (Austin, Dave Kaczorowski, Schak; 3rd)
  • PennBowl IX, 2000 (Austin, Falcone, Miller, Schak, Volk)
  • Harvard's Boston T-Party, 1999 (Austin, Miller, Schak, Volk)
  • ACF Regionals, 1999 (Austin, Cohn, Falcone, Miller; 3rd)
  • NAQT Mid-Atlantic Sectionals, 1999 (Austin, Cohn, Miller; 4th)
  • NAQT Mid-Atlantic Conferences, 1998 (Cohn, Falcone, Miller; 3rd)
  • Penn State's Nittany Lion Inv. Tourn., 1998 (Dan Blim, Cohn, Miller; 3rd)
  • Princeton's BuzzerFest II, 1998 (Blim, Cohn, Ruben Juarez, Miller; 4th)
  • SNEWT II, 1998 (Austin, Juarez, Daniel Koltonsky, Ben Newman; 3rd)
  • ACF Mid-Atlantic Regionals, 1998 (Bush, Cohn, Miller; 3rd)
  • CBI Region 3 Championship, 1998 (Bush, Cohn, Lattin, Miller, Robins; 3rd)
  • Maryland's D.S. Hamilton Inv. Tourn., 1997 (Cohn, Harbour, Miller; 3rd)
  • Princeton's "Return to Redenbacher" Inv. Tourn., 1996 (Cohn, Lockman, Miller, Jonathan Shainin; 3rd)
  • Princeton's "Return to Redenbacher" Inv. Tourn., 1996 (Bush, Harbour, Otavia Propper, Dave Ryan; 4th)
  • Delaware's Blue Hen Buzzer Bash, 1996 (Bush, Cohn, Friel, Harbour, Liz Nickrenz, Alastair Thompson, Ed Whitehouse; 3rd; Deep Bench style)
  • Princeton's Orville Redenbacher Inv. Tourn., 1995 (Berenberg, Cohn, Friel, Bob Griffin)
  • CBI Region 3 Championship, 1995 (Berenberg, Friel, Dave Lewis, Lockman, Chuck Stevens; 3rd)
  • CBI Region 3 Championship, 1994 (3rd)
  • MIT's Beaver Bowl, 1993 (Friel, Stevens, Chris Welser, Pete Zustovich)
  • Princeton's Buckminster Fuller Inv. Tourn., 1993 (Aaron Brockett [?], Friel, Lewis [?], Welser)

National Championship appearances

  • ACF Nationals, 2002 (Austin, Falcone, Volk; 15/27)
  • ACF Nationals, 2000 (Austin, Falcone, Miller, Schak; 9/22)
  • NAQT ICT, 2000 (Austin, Falcone, Miller, Schak; 20/41; 4th undergrad)
  • NAQT ICT, 1999 (Austin, Cohn, Harbour, Miller; 14/48; 2nd undergrad)
  • NAQT ICT, 1998 (Bush, Cohn, Miller, Robins; 11/46; 1st undergrad)
  • NAQT ICT, 1997 (Bush, Cohn, Griffin, Shainin; 26/64)

Individual awards

Top scorer

  • Austin, Maryland's Terrapin Invitational Tournament 2001
  • Noda, Delaware's Baby Hen II 2001 (101 points per game!)
  • Austin, D.S. Hamilton Inv. Tourn., 2000
  • Austin, Yale's Bulldogs over Broadway, 2000
  • Friel, Delaware's Blue Hen Buzzer Bash, 1996
  • Berenberg, Georgetown Cup II, 1995
  • Friel, GWU's Presidential Inv. Tourn., 1994
  • Friel, CBI Region 3 Championship, 1994

Second place scorer

  • Harbour, TRASHionals, 1999 (1st undergrad)
  • Cohn, NAQT Northeast Sectionals, 1998 (1st undergrad)
  • Cohn, NAQT Mid-Atlantic Conferences, 1998 (1st undergrad)

Third place scorer

  • Duenas, D.S. Hamilton Inv. Tourn., 2002
  • Cohn, Penn State's Nittany Lion Inv. Tourn., 1998 (1st undergrad)
  • Bush, ACF Mid-Atlantic Regionals, 1998 (1st undergrad)
  • Cohn, MIT's Beaver Bonspiel IV, 1997 (1st in bracket)
  • Bush, UMBC's Bigger Coller Buzzer Convocation, 1997
  • Lockman, CBI Region 3 Championship, 1995

Fourth place scorer

  • Emily Ullman, SNEWT VII
  • Noda, Maryland's Terrapin Invitational Tournament (Division II)
  • Falcone, Yale's Bulldogs over Broadway, 2000
  • Austin, Harvard's Boston T-Party, 2000 (1st undergrad)
  • Cohn, ACF Mid-Atlantic Regionals, 1999
  • Cohn, NAQT Mid-Atlantic Sectionals, 1999
  • Cohn, GWU's JCV V, 1999
  • Austin, MIT's Beaver Bonspiel V, 1998 (1st in bracket)
  • Austin, SNEWT II, 1998
  • Cohn, NAQT Atlantic Conferences, 1997
  • Cohn, Johns Hopkins's Blue Jay Bash IV, 1997
  • Bush, Princeton's "Return to Redenbacher" Inv. Tourn., 1996
  • Cohn, Johns Hopkins's Blue Jay Bash III, 1996

Maintained by Adrian Packel. For more information, contact Chris White.