Lo-Ma Quiz Bowl to participate at Nationals
With its strong finish at Iowa Western Fall Open, the quiz bowl team from Logan-Magnolia Junior High & High School proved themselves worthy to play on a national stage. On Friday, April 24, the team will represent their school in a 154-team national competition: National Academic Quiz Tournaments' Small School National Championship Tournament.
Quiz bowl is a competitive, academic, interscholastic activity for teams of four students. Quiz bowl teams use buzzers to answer questions about science, math, history, literature, mythology, geography, social science, current events, sports, and popular culture. The matches feature a blend of individual competition and team collaboration, since no individual player is likely to be an expert in all subject areas. Participation in quiz bowl both reinforces lessons from the classroom and encourages players to develop new intellectual interests.
Logan-Magnolia has attended the Small School National Championship Tournament two times before. Most recently, in 2025, they finished 1-9.
The SSNCT is the only quiz bowl national championship pitting small schools against each other. It has one division containing non-selective public schools with 500 or fewer students in their top three grades, and another division for other schools with 350 or fewer students in their top three grades. Logan-Magnolia may face familiar foes in Rosemont, as Lawton-Bronson and Sergeant Bluff-Luton will also be attending.
The team comes in with some nationals experience: Cecilia Alvis, Margaret Barrett, and Chaylyn Frazier played the 2025 Small School National Championship Tournament in Rosemont, Illinois (near Chicago) and Cecilia Alvis, Margaret Barrett, and Chaylyn Frazier played the 2024 Small School National Championship Tournament in Rosemont, Illinois (near Chicago).
The team, in the Traditional Public Schools Division, will be captained by Cecilia Alvis, who will be joined by Margaret Barrett, Patrick Connealy, and Chaylyn Frazier. The team will be coached by Kathie Foreman and Mitchel McKinney.
Tournament results will be updated throughout the three days of competition at https://www.naqt.com/go/stats/17101 so everyone can follow along and see how the team does. You can also follow #ssnct on Instagram.
