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High school card game award
The ACBL King or Queen of Bridge is a graduating
high school senior annually designated by the
American Contract Bridge League . Currently a $2000 scholarship accompanies the title.
[1]
[2]
The King or Queen is the high school senior in North America (US, Canada, Mexico, and Bermuda) with the "best record in bridge".
[1] Students now formally enter the annual contest and identify their qualifications.
[2] Beside outstanding performance in bridge tournaments, the winner is commonly cited for sportsmanship and for "bridge activities such as teaching, directing, and unit/district participation".
[1]
The King of Bridge was established in 1973 by Homer Shoop of Indiana
[2] as a prize for the high school senior with the greatest number of ACBL
master points .
[1] The second and third winners, Jeff Meckstroth and Bobby Levin in 1974 and 1975, won the
1981 Bermuda Bowl as United States teammates; Levin was the youngest person to be a world champion at bridge.[
citation needed ] Several other Kings and Queens have become leading expert players.
Winners
1973, J Merril
1974,
Jeff Meckstroth
1975,
Bobby Levin
1976, Warren Spector
1977, Marc Franklin
1978,
Matthew K. Franklin
1979, Regina Barnes
1980, Tony Marks
1981, Doug Levene, Steve Cochran
1982,
Steve Weinstein
1983, Billy Hsieh
1984, James Munday
1985, Adair Gellman
1986, Martha Benson ‡
1987, Richard Pavlicek, Jr.
1988, Holly Zullo
1989,
Brad Moss
1990, Eric Sutherland
1991, Andrew Moss
1992, Frederic Pollack
1993,
Eric Greco
1994, Sam Hirschman
1995, Tony Melucci
1996, Kent Mignocchi
1997,
Joel Wooldridge
1998, Josh Heller
1999,
Ari Greenberg
2000,
Gavin Wolpert
2001, Erin Anderson
2002,
John Kranyak †
2003, Scottie Waldron Jr.
2004, Rob Glickman
2005, David Banh
2006, Sam Katz ‡
2007, Andrew Dubay
2008, Jeremy Koegel
2009, Nick Flores
2010, Tom Walsh,
Adam Grossack
2011, Blake Sanders
2012, Murphy Green
2013, John Altman
2014, Adam Kaplan, Allison Hunt †
[3]
2015, Amber Lin
2016, Burke Snowden
2017, Richard Jeng
2018, Reese Koppel
[4]
2019, Louis Beauchet
[5]
2020, Bo Han Zhu
2021, Tammy Leon Molina
2021, Arthur Zhou
‡ 2006 King of Bridge Sam Katz is the son of 1986 Queen of Bridge Martha Benson. They are the only recipients related as child and parent.
† 2002 King of Bridge John Kranyak married 2014 Queen of Bridge Allison Hunt on June 16, 2018
[6]
References
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a
b
c
d Manley, Brent;
Horton, Mark ; Greenberg-Yarbro, Tracey;
Rigal, Barry , eds. (2011).
The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge (7th ed.). Horn Lake, MS:
American Contract Bridge League . p. 98.
ISBN
978-0-939460-99-1 .
^
a
b
c
"King of Queen of Bridge" . ACBL Youth 4 Bridge (youth4bridge.org). Retrieved 2014-06-07.
^
"Adam Kaplan, Allison Hunt Named 2014 King and Queen of Bridge"
Archived 2014-10-30 at the
Wayback Machine . 2014-09-30. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-10-29.
^
"King and Queen of Bridge | American Contract Bridge League – ACBL" . Retrieved 2019-01-25 .
^ Linxwiler, Paul; Munday, Sue (July 26, 2019).
"NABC Daily Bulletin" (PDF) . Vol. 91. ACBL. Retrieved March 15, 2020 .
^
"John + Allison's Wedding" . WeddingWire. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
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