Cooper Award Recipients

Year Academic Ambassador Young Ambassador
2011 Matt Weiner
Virginia Commonwealth University and HSAPQ
Richmond, VA
Missouri Quizbowl Alliance
2010 R. Robert Hentzel
National Academic Quiz Tournaments
Bloomington, MN
Sarah Angelo
Maggie Walker Governor’s School
Richmond, VA
2009 Eric Huff
Paul M. Dorman High School
Roebuck, SC
Christian Carter
Minneapolis South High School
Minneapolis, MN
2008 Chris Sewell
Mountain View, CA

and

Lee Henry
Brindlee Mountain High School
Guntersville, AL

2007 Julie Gittings
State College Area High School
State College, PA
Evan Silberman
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Alexandria, VA
2006 Bob Weiser
Solon High School
Solon, OH

and

Dr. John Barnes
Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School for Government and International Studies
Richmond, VA

Eric Grunden
Raleigh Charter High School
Raleigh, NC
2005 Sue Korosa
Copley High School
Copley, OH
Tom Egan
Maine South High School
Park Ridge, IL
2004 Paul Cain
Ysleta High School
El Paso, TX
Matt Weiner
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA

and

David Bykowski
Columbia, SC

2003 Carolyn Hawkins
Cookeville High School
Cookeville, TN
2002 Douglas A. Tyson
Benjamin Banneker High School
Washington, DC

and

It’s Academic television program

2001 Robert C. Grierson
Editor
Scholastic Visions newsletter
2000 Academic Competition Enterprises

Rick Barry
Brookwood High School
Snellville, GA

James Garrick
Paul Dorman High School
Roebuck, SC

Hodges Lewis
Irmo High School
Irmo, SC

1999 Joe Hermiller
E. L. Bowsher High School
Toledo, OH
1998 Sue Ikenberry
on behalf of Benjamin Cooper
Georgetown Day School
Washington, DC