This is a picture of the group picture. If you care to squint & find us, we're on the left side near the back. Joshua is on the very edge in a hat & a minion shirt. I'm wearing a melon/pinkish colored shirt.
This is a picture of the team photo. Todd is an assistant coach so that's why he's in it.
Joshua can't resist photobombing us.
This is 2/3 of God's Girlz. If you look close you'll see the girl in the middle isn't one of "ours". She's from a different AZ team.
This is the score between the top 2 teams as they battle to see who gets 1st place. As you can see, it was close & required overtime. The winner ended up to be Ozark,Mo for the 3rd year in a row.
Proud of our girl with her 12th place plaque.
After the 2nd full day of quizzing, the girls won 3 & lost 5. So after 2 full days they were 7/10. They would finish off their last day with only 2 rounds. They were 1/1 on that last day. So their final tally was 8/11. There was a 3rd place tie for 12th place so it's broken by who has more points. Right on our heels was another AZ team who ended up in 13th place which was a spot improvement for them over their placement last year at 14th place.
I was told that 12th place was the highest ranking any AZ team has ever placed. I said before that there are 40 teams invited to Nationals (or that earned the spot,actually) and 153 quizzers. I asked the coordinator how many "A" league teams there were in the nation but he didn't have an exact count. He said between the intro league,middle school, and "A" league, there were over 700 teams in the nation. I'm guessing at least half of that number is "A" league. People who have been going to Nationals for years were amazed & shocked this was their first year. It was an amazing accomplishment and we are so proud of all the girls and all the hard work they put in for one whole year memorizing Romans and James.
Next up, banquet pictures....
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