Resources for Team Development

NAQT has written a series of articles about the process of starting new teams and developing existing teams:

• How to start a high school team

• How to start a college team

• Funding Academic Competition Programs: An article by Tom Michael, former coach of the University of Virginia.

• Many teams run their own tournaments as fundraisers; the most profitable kind is probably an open high school tournament. At the simplest level, teams pay NAQT for the questions and keep the proceeds for themselves. Potentially, a school's admissions department might be willing to help fund a high school tournament that brought potential students to campus.

• Intramural Tournaments: Running an intramural tournament for the student body may help justify additional funding from the student government or the campus activities office.

• NAQT Entering Freshman Contact List: This service connects high school seniors with the teams at the colleges they will attend in the fall.

• Intramural Tournaments: Running an intramural tournament for the student body is often an effective recruiting technique for college teams.

• Stanford Packet Archive: Hundreds of packets from old tournaments, charitably donated by teams.

• Quizbowl Packet Archive: High school and college packets from old tournaments, charitably donated by teams.

• Carleton's "Frequency of Mention of Titles" Databases: Compiled by the team at Carleton College, this tracks the "most popular" titles to appear in tournament play in a variety of fields.

Do you know of a great resource for team development that isn't listed here? E-mail us and let us know!