Mount College Bowl Team Places Fourth in Regionals The Mount’s College Bowl team came in 4th place at the regional tournament held at West Chester University the last weekend in February. This was the highest Mount finish ever. The team had a 6-1 record in regular play (beating Seton Hall, Bucknell, West Chester, Rutgers-Newark, Monmouth and Frostburg) and made its first appearance ever in the final round. College Bowl, “The Varsity Sport of the Mind,” has a long history on television, on radio and on campuses. A game of questions and answers played by two teams of competing students, it has provided the arena for the fastest minds in school to demonstrate their great skills under the fire of varsity competition. From 1953-57 it was on the NBC radio network, from 1959-70 it was a regular network television show, and it continues today on campuses throughout the United States and England (where it airs on the BBC under the title University Challenge). Every spring there is an official U.S. National Championship Tournament featuring the top 16 teams in the nation. The very first College Bowl National Championship Tournament and World's Championship were held in June of 1978. Stanford University emerged victorious from a field of 15 regional champions. A team of British All-Stars won the World's Championship title. The Mount’s campus tournament for this season was held in October. Seven four-person teams participated, with the winning team representing the Mount at the regional tournament in February. The team this year consisted of seniors Dan Long, Katie Herzog and Nick Ferrari, and freshman Stephanie Kreiner. Katie Widdoss was on the campus team that won the local tournament, but she was unable to make it to West Chester. Sixteen teams competed in the regionals, drawn from Maryland, Delaware, D.C., West Virgina, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and southern New York. In the finals, the Mount team lost to the University of Maryland, Baltimore, who eventually won the tournament and will go on to national competition in May. Mount professors Scott Weiss and Bob Keefer accompanied the team to regionals and moderated many of the games. | 
