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Knowledge Bowl

Knowledge Bowl is COMPETITIVE academic trivia.  We practice each week on Wednesday in Room 46 during Community Period. Please see Mrs. League to get permission to join!

We participate locally in the Inland Empire Knowledge Bowl League (IEKB) which runs from October through February. This is similar to the GSL structure for sports but there are teams from both Washington and Idaho. Each school that participates usually has a Varsity and a JV team, but sometimes school KB programs (like Gonzaga Prep) are big enough to have 2 Varsity and 2 or more JV teams. Only the Varsity 1 team competes at Regionals. Regionals are in February and are typically run by the local Educational School District (in our case ESD 101 and hosted by Whitworth). The Washington State Tournament is in March and teams qualify through regional seeding according to WIAA classifications (in our case 4A). The State 3A/4A tournament is held in Wenatchee at Wenatchee High School.  

Gonzaga Prep vs IEKB teams
(20+ schools from WA & ID)
Dates & Times Results (Overall in the League out of 26 teams)
hosted by Ridgeline November 3, 2025 @ 3:30pm
Varsity 2 = 2nd place
Varsity 1 = 3rd place
JV = 10th
hosted by East Valley November 17, 2025 @ 3:30pm
Varsity 1 = 3rd place
Varsity 2 = 10th place
JV = 8th place
hosted by Lewis & Clark December 8, 2025 @ 3:30pm
Varsity 1 = 4th place
Varsity 2 =15th
JV = 2nd place
hosted by East Valley January 12, 2026 @ 3:30pm
Varsity 1 = 4th place
Varsity 2 - hanging in there!
JV = 1st place
hosted by Lewis & Clark
February 2, 2026 @ 3:30pm
SENIOR NIGHT
Varsity 1 = 3rd place
JV = 1st place
Varsity 2 = 15th place
Regionals
East Valley High School
 
February 20, 2026 @ East Valley HS
5th place
State Championships
(Wenatchee High School)
NQ  
Gonzaga Prep KB Varsity Team Results (under Coach League)
2026 Regionals - 5th Place 
2026 IEKB 3rd Place
2025 State 3rd Place 4A
2025 Regionals 4th Place & 4A State Qualifiers
2025 IEKB 3rd Place
2024 State 8th Place 4A
2024 Regionals 4th Place & 4A State Qualifiers
2023 State 1st Place 4A Champions
2023 Regionals 1st Place & 4A State Qualifiers
2023 IEKB 2nd Place
2022 Regionals 2nd Place (returned to In-Person)
2022 IEKB (Virtual & In-Person) 4th Place
2021 Regionals & State cancelled due to COVID
2021 IEKB (Virtual) 3rd Place
2020 State - Qualified but the tournament was cancelled due to COVID
2020 Regionals 7th Place
2020 IEKB 3rd Place
2019 State 2nd Place 4A (Runner Up Champions)
2019 Regionals 2nd Place
2019 IEKB 2nd Place
2018 Regionals - did not place
2018 IEKB 13th Place
History Bowl & Bee are COMPETITIVE History Trivia.
 
Gonzaga Prep has competed in the regional Bowl and Bees since January 2019. Typically we draw our teams from Knowledge Bowl members. We have qualified for state and nationals each time. We had planned to go to Washington DC for the 2020 Championship but the COVID-19 derailed those plans.  We do plan to make it back at some point! The History Bowl consists of 3-4 person TEAM rounds and the Bee is individual rounds. 
 
Gonzaga Prep History Bowl Varsity Team Results
2024 (November) Semi-Finalsts (qualified for Nationals)
2024 (January) Bowl 2nd Place (qualified for Nationals)
2023 NATIONALS - 20th in the Nation!
2023 (January) Bowl Champion (qualified for State & Nationals)
2020 (January) Bowl Champion (qualified for State & Nationals)
2019 (November) Bowl Champion (qualified for State & Nationals)
2019 (January) Bowl 2nd Place (qualified for State & Nationals) 
 
Gonzaga Prep History Bee Varsity Results
2024 (November) David Thorp '25 2nd Place (qualified for Nationals) 
2024 (January) David Thorp '25 Varsity Bee Champion (qualified for Nationals);
Mason Hatzke '23 3rd place in the JV Bee (qualified for Nationals) 
2023 (November) David Thorp '25 2nd place Varsity Bee (qualified for Nationals);
Mason Hatzke '23 3rd place in the JV Bee (qualified for Nationals); David qualified for Nationals in both Political Science and Geography via exams; Mason qualified for Nationals in Geography via his exam
2023 NATIONALSChristian Schueller '23 made it to the semi-finals!!! David Thorp '25 placed 17th in the Modern History Exam.
2023 (January) Christian Schueller '23 Varsity Bee Champion (qualified for State & Nationals)
                           David Thorp '25 Junior Varsity Bee Champion (qualified for State & Nationals)
2020 (January) Christian Schueller '23 Varsity Bee Champion (qualified for State & Nationals)
2019 (November) Christian Schueller '23 Varsity Bee Champion (qualified for State & Nationals)
                              AJ Patterson '20 Varsity Bee 2nd Place (qualified for State & Nationals)
2019 (January) Jessica Schueller '19 Varsity Bee Champion (qualified for State & Nationals)
                          Bradley Suave '19 Varsity Bee 2nd Place (qualified for State & Nationals)
Varsity & JV Coach:
 
Taryn League '91 [email protected]
 
Coach League has been coaching since the fall of 2017. This will be her 6th year coaching Knowledge Bowl and History Bowl/Bee. She is also the IEKB Coordinator for the 20 school members in WA & ID.
 
2025-2026 Varsity Members
 
Mary Cornwell '26
Mason Hatzke '26
Declan Donahue '26
Nolan Lemberg '26
Kam Pitts '26
Ben Kapaun '26
Jane Schlegel '26
Stefen Schlegel '26
Finn Daulton '26
Lukas Nordhagen '26
Evie Thorp '27
Andrew Sun '28
2025-2026
JV Members
 
Luke Loroz '28
Ciaran Kelly '28
Aidan Roark '29
Lucas McNallen '29
 
 
Since 2018, Gonzaga Prep's Knowledge Bowl alumni have gone on to study at Stanford, Harvard, USC, The United States Naval Academy, Dartmouth, Notre Dame, University of Tennessee, University of Washington, Gonzaga University, University of Arizona Honors College, UC Berkeley, Boston College, Belmont Abbey College, Loyola Chicago, Washington State University Honors College, Seattle University, Loyola Marymount, University of San Diego, and Oregon State University.