CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
A-TEAM
WHERE ARE THEY
NOW?
Name: Erin Anseth
Current Location:
Nashville, TN
Grad Date/ Major:
May
29,1999 from Hanover; English
Memories:
Favorite Practice Pastime: creating the Triumvirate and pretending to be
allowed to blackball potential teammates
Best Answer:
tie between Leigh's "Walden" and Wesley's invented tribe (either Native
American or Chinese, I can't remember which) for which we miraculously
received credit
Most Memorable
Competition: the emotional outpourings of Atlanta
Most Abhorred
Rival: all those snobby private schools (MLK and the "blitzkrieg" crowd)
Most Lauded Rival:
that
team we played at Vandy with the cute guy who appeared to be checking me
out, and as Lyndsay told me later, was really interested in HER.
I was only sitting next to her during the match
Name: Kaycee Anseth
Memories: Considering
most of my a-team memories consist of practices, since I was only able
to go to a couple of contests (my hectic schedule just wouldn't allow it
you know, I really was smart enough to go!!!! Common misconception) my
favorite memories have to be those practices where my sister and I added
a little sibling rivalry to the otherwise calm, friendly proceedings. My
most satisfying win, no i mean devastating loss was when the team lost
to this one team usa. I'm sorry Brian, Liz, Elizabeth, and Brad. I know
it destroyed your day.
Name: Wesley Mack
Bryant
Grad Date/ Major/Future
Plans: May, 1999 University of Mississippi (which I think is a oxymoron)
Graduated cum laude with a major in History and minors in English, Latin,
and Philosophy. I will attend the University of Tennessee's College of
Law to pursue my goal of becoming a lawyer. I am also engaged to fellow
academic team member Shauna Brooks. We will be married on Sat. July 31,
1999.
Favorite memory:
Vanderbilt and Paul asleep (or not I didn't really care) in the next bed.
Most hated team:
Briarcrest,
They always want to talk and be buddy buddy with us, I don't know why.
Most hated player:
That
freak who drew and ran his whole team. They'd sit and argue bonuses then
time was called and they all looked to him, after he had just sat there
and drawn (I think it was the Kool-Aid man or Punchy) and then give the
correct answer.
Favorite Teammate:
Matt Wilson
Fondest Memory:
Practice-
Kehoe, Leigh P., Erin, and Paul, and I get stuck with Shauna, Kaycee, and
Crystal, the three people with probably the lowest combined scoring average,
but three of arguably the most attractive women we had or ever will ever
have on Academic Team.
Other Memories:
Score's tied in the final round of the round robins of Marshall Co. the
final toss up is "what famous Japanese novelist wrote jaslajdf (something
in japan talk). Time ticks no one has any clue what the answer is it looks
like overtime for Central, but wait, Wes Bryant has buzzed with but a second
to spare. What could he say he has no clue about Japanese novelists, he
probably couldn't even spell Japanese. but he gives a loud and confident
answer "Kabuti". "You are correct," the proctor says. "I know." Wes replies.
Erin turns bright red and gives one of those mousy squeals. Leigh I believes
cries. Mr. Franklin laughs openly. You see I made up that answer, as was
my custom at practice, which was a point of great ridicule from everyone
else, but I showed them. "Kabuti" shall ring the halls of Academia and
haunt the other team for years to come.
I'm captain of "C"
team at Vanderbilt b\c I can't stay for the whole tourney. First game there
is a bonus, I forget on what but what's her name the (short freshman at
the time with glasses that thought she knew everything) yells at me that
the answer is "Herbert" I know the answer is not Herbert, I tell her this
in a calm but confident voice. Her eyes turn a bright red- her face loses
all color so that you can actually see the blood in her veins circulating.
She turns her chin down so as to expose only her eyes and a furrowed brow
and in a deep voice more associated with a growl then speech she grunts
"IT'S HERBERT”. Her hand has moved up and she has made some hook like shape
with her fingers and she holds them out as a warning I believe to show
what may happen if I answer incorrectly. I say "Herbert" with a smirk towards
the proctor and the other team. "Your answer is WRONG" the proctor says-
not incorrect but wrong- as if to mock her in her stupidity. She didn't
do it again to my knowledge.
Name: Chris Johnson
Current location:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Grad date/major:
2002; Aeronautics and Astronautics
E-mail: cejohnso@mit.edu
Memories: Liberace;
DUI Kills; eight dollars; don't touch my dinosaur!; the car alarm in Atlanta
that got pissed at us; Lake Peru; Great Alaska National Park; mammals lay
eggs!; Sam the Happy slab of Ham; Senior send off; jokes in the van; joel
stories; DEFENSE!!!; that one time that Amanda was nice to me. . . oh wait
that never happened; guessing how old girls were in the Atlanta mall; the
time we got a question right against Riverdale; Gimp boy is staring at
me!; the one hundred question practice with just king and me; Galatea;
Klu Klux Klan; that bitch coach; basically the whole shafting we received
at TSU; Shabby Part I; Shabby Part II; that time I made fun of Shabby Part
II, and she didn't even realize it; having to spend hours finding somewhere
to eat, just because we had to cater to eLizaBeths needs; the single bed
i got at state tournament two years ago, because one room was really full;
the sign king stole from the Lee tourney; academic team lexicon; T Jay
bashing; melisha bashing; oh hell, bashing everybody was the best part,
let's face it.
Name:
Chrystal Johnson
Current Location:
University of Alabama
Grad Date/Major:
2000,
English
Email: ChrystalLJ@aol.com
Comments:
Considered by all (teammates and opponents) to be the greatest defensive
player in the history of the CHS Academic Team.
Name: Andrew Kehoe
Current Location:
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti MI
Grad Date/ Major:
April
2000, History
Email: kehoe319@hotmail.com
Memories: Stupidest
answer- Kenny Rogers' Roasters
Most devastating
loss- Any SC team, especially Dorman
Least favorite
person- paper chewing boy
Favorite moment-
the Cookeville Turn
Name: Jessica Lewis
Current Location:
Indiana
University
Grad Date/Major:
May
1999 from Wake Forest University/Graduate student in English. Will graduate
next May with my second Masters degree and go on somewhere that will give
me money to get a Ph.D. in English the following year.
Comments:
I may not have been a very good asset for the team back in the old days
at CHS, but I could really kick some tail now with all of my education.
NAME: Jeremy Minyard
Current Location:
Vanderbilt University
Grad Date/ Major:
Probably in the Social Sciences in 2002
E-Mail:
jdtrickfan@hotmail.com
Comments:
Fondest Memory:
Everything
that happened in Atlanta: Mr. Franklin's uncanny ability to call the ages
of high school girls, eight dollars, DUI kills (Mr. Franklin has said some
really funny stuff from time to time, you know?), Amanda's desire to be
suckled.
Best Match: Gotta
be the comeback. Westwood, 96.
Worst Match:
All
the other ones.
Proudest moment:
Beating
my arch nemesis, Amanda.
Most pathetic
moment: I would have to say now, as I realize that all my achievements
happened at JV competitions.
A few suggestions:
Always
have fun, at practice and at competitions. If that means you have to lose,
so be it, but the two don't have to go together. If you lose really badly
at a competition, don't be afraid to take home a souvenir. Oh, and try
not to practice against your girlfriend, it can only cause problems.
NAME: King Molder
Current Location:
Tennessee Technological University
Major/ Grad.
Date: Electrical Engineering/ 2003 (that includes a year of Co-op)
E-mail: kingjeffries@hotmail.com
Favorite Memory:
After the last day of try-outs on buzzers... I whooped up and I knew that
I was going to be part of something very special that I could be good at.
Name: John Norman
Current location:
The
United States Naval Academy, Annapolis MD
Grad Date/ Major:
May 2000, History
Email: m004836@nadn.navy.mil
Memories:
I don't remember the tournament, but I remember the match where the B team,
captained by me, beat the A team, captained by Leigh. Irony!
Name: Drew Parker
Current location:
Auburn University, Auburn, AL
Email: drewparker@mindspring.com
Memories: the
great come from behind at Westwood, kicking Elizabeth Moore's ass at my
first practice, having one of the best per round avgs in history
Hobbies:cold
beer, big trucks, pretty women, fishing, football, student government
Favorite Quote:
"The false face must hide what the false heart doth know." -Lady Macbeth
Name: Leigh Powell
Current location:
Memphis, TN
Grad. Date/ major:
May 1999, English writing major, Anthro/soc minor
Email: Leigh.Powell@AUTOZONE.COM
Memories: Wesley's
"Fluggenflaggen" (or whatever it was...) answer. The trip to Portland
("$1"..."Too much").
"Do you see that
table over there?" Erin and Lyndsay outside the window. Greenbrier
and the whole "Prometheus Unbound" and "lightning ATTACK" deal.
Name: Paul Pruett
Current Location:
University of Tennessee, Knoxville but I now live in Chicago, IL
Grad date/ major:
May 2000, Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology with aspirations
of medical school
E-mail: ppruett@utk.edu
Memories:
Best Answer?
All the correct ones.
Best trip?
The infamous Vanderbilt trip!!!
Best Almost Answer?
Tommy's almost answer of "Kenny Roger's Roasters".
Most Despised
Opponent? Shaggy or whatever that girl from Tullahoma's name was.
Most Loved Opponent?
"That cute little Marshall County Boy"
Most Devastating
Loss? Dorman.
Name: Amanda Riley
Current Location:
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Grad date/ major:
2002/ majoring in psychology with a minor in women's studies
E-mail: ariley@utkux.utcc.utk.edu
Memories:
Name: Leigh Simmons
Current Location:
Emory University Atlanta, GA
Grad Date/ Major:
May 2000, biology/biological anthropology
Favorite memories:
Most Satisfying
Win : Against Oak Ridge when the answer of "El Prado" was given.
Most Embarrassing
Answer resulting in loss of round and chance of advancement: At Memphis
when I tried to answer the k.d. lang question.
Funniest answer:
Tommy's Kenny Rogers Roasters.
Others: The
Memphis meter maid. How Andy always knew things like "Vishnu." The All-Freak
team.
Name: Justin Wear
Current Location:
University
of the South, Sewanee, TN
Grad Date/ Major:
2001
in Political Science working in DC this summer
E-Mail: wear_jd0@sewanee.edu
Memories: Most
Definite Senior, 1997( destroying Minyard and Johnson and King and Decker
and Westberry in the voting); all Westberry drinking jokes; porn music
with Liz and Decker
Name: Brian Scott
Westberry
Current Location:
Columbia
State Community College
Major: undecided
(open to all options) Graduate- Spring Sem. 2001 (give or take a semester)
E-mail:
bwestberry@hotmail.com
Memories:
Favorite match:
I was with John that day when Columbia II beat Columbia I. I believe it
was at Portland when our team ended up with a better record than team one.
Others there were Karen Yokley and I believe Mike Hooks.
Favorite trip:
TSU
last year. It was Decker's first contest and we gave him the rookie treatment.
He carried all of our bags, and to top it off Justin and I had the honor
to room with him. Needless to say that Decker got to sleep on the floor!
Justin and I also scared the $%&* out of Decker when we told him to
come with us to Ken's Gold Club. Many more stories about that but you must
ask me about those.
Least Favorite
Trip: Vanderbilt in the Spring. We got busted!
Least Favorite
Match: Auburn beating us so bad that they answered seventeen out of
the twenty toss-ups. I do remember buzzing in once just to beat those bastards!
Favorite Opponent:
Santa
Fe or any team like that. They thought we were so smart!
Least Favorite
Opponent: any of those teams that didn't have a single team member
that was a legal U.S. citizen
Favorite Answer:
Any math bonus where Brad would always whisper to me to say "sixty-nine".
Also when Kehoe would get all those ancient Egyptian questions right. Amazing!
Worst Answer:
"Robin
Hood: Men in Tights" What was I thinking!
Favorite Destination:
Portland, they would always feed us before the matches!
Some Overall
Favorite Memories: Frank and Adam Beck told to be quiet at a contest
during a match. Riverdale, my JV year, we got third place! Any discussion
that we had while riding in "the van" on the way to or from a contest.
Adam Beck looking at me saying "How did you know that?" on a question when
we were at Vanderbilt.
Name: Karen Alyse
Yokley
Current Location:
North Carolina State University
Grad. Date/ Major/
Future Plans: UTK May 1999 Mathematics/Biology Presently at North Carolina
State pursuing a graduate degree in Applied Mathematics.
E-Mail: kayokley@unity.ncsu.edu
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