After a season in which the Varsity team won three league titles, the Revere High School Academic Challenge team competed in the state competition.

The Academic Challenge team has three teams, including one Varsity team and two Junior Varsity teams. Teacher Jeff Fry coaches the Varsity team, while teacher Ellen Friery works with the Junior Varsity teams. The teams compete in three different leagues—the Medina County League, the Summit County League and the Suburban League. Fry explained the complexity of the teams’ season.

“In Medina County we have a league where you play everybody twice and then have a tournament. In the Suburban League you play everybody once. In the Summit County league there are three leagues. So we have a fall season and a winter season with twenty teams divided into three different leagues,” Fry said.

The Varsity team compiled a record of 37-3 during their season, winning the Medina County League, the Suburban County League, and the League Three Winter Season Title for Summit County. Senior Rebecca Jarvis, a member of the Varsity team, also won the Top Gun award in Summit County, which is given to the winner of an individual contest between the top player of each team in the county. Fry speculated on the influence that Revere’s curriculum has on the success of the Academic Challenge team.

“We have a lot of very intelligent kids that have very good teachers. [At Revere] we have the whole nine yards,” Fry said.
Friery also spoke about this influence.

“The questions for the competition are written by retired teachers and based on the Ohio Curriculum [and the questions] go from 9th grade questions to the AP level . . . So that goes back to our kids having a rigorous curriculum,” Friery said.

Fry and Friery also helped to start a middle school Academic Challenge team to solidify the future of the high school program. Fry spoke about the middle school program.

“Our middle school team this year competed in three tournaments and won them all. So that’s good for the future of the high school program, knowing that we have a feeder program at the middle school,” Fry said.

The Varsity team consists of six members, four of whom are seniors. Varsity team member and junior Victoria Deng commented on the makeup of the team.

“We’re losing four seniors from our six current varsity members, but I think next year will go well,” Deng said.

The Varsity team’s seniors include Dominic Bucci, Jarvis, Sean Nixon and Zach Willis. The team ended its season by making the regional tournament.