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Fame
The AGLOA Hall of Fame Committee met in June 2023 to discuss the inclusion of prospective individuals, coaches, or teams that would be inducted into the Academic Games Hall of Fame following the 2023 AGLOA National Tournament. Congratulations to the newest Academic Games Hall of Fame inductees.
Visit agloa.org/hall-of-fame for the full listing of Hall of Fame inductees.
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Teams evenly divide points that a team earns from national championships amongst the coaches of that team. The Hall of Fame Committee votes on teams that are nominated that meet the established minimum criteria, and three of the five team must be the same from year to year. This year, four teams were nominated and voted into the Academic Games Hall of Fame.
A team from Ann Arbor, Michigan, that played for five years (2019-2023) collected three Sweepstakes championships and ten titles. The team took first place in LinguiSHTIK each of the three years that they were Sweepstakes champions. Team members included David Lee, Catherine B. Li, Alfredo Meza, Simon Shavit, Jennifer Tang, Alexandra VanLaven, Tony Varkey, and Claire Zhang.
One team from Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, made up of Benson Gao, Sania Islam, John Kwon, Snehalata Mondal, Harshita Pattam, Mahir Rahman, and Kiet Thai garnered two Sweepstakes championships in 2017 (Middle Division) and 2019 (Junior Division). They also took home four team titles in four different game competitions at the two separate national tournaments.
Another Ann Arbor, Michigan, team was a two-time Sweepstakes winner (2012) and (2014) in the Junior and Senior Divisions, respectively, that also garnered four game titles. Their game titles were in the cube games. The team members included Yuxuan Chen, Luke Cheng, Claire Fishman, Andrew Gitlin, Thierry Laurens, and Shwetha Rajaram.
A team from St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, was the Sweepstakes champions in 2002 (Middle Division) and 2004 (Junior Division). Their team placed first overall in two games each of those two years giving them a title in each of the four games in which they competed. The team included Stephen Brassette, Jeffery Francis, Laura Gillen, Mozahid Haque, Robert Monjure, Amy Pellittieri, and Jack Torres.
