NASAT 2015

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NASAT 2015

Postby Djones » Sun Jan 25, 2015 1:38 pm

I will be sending an email out to coaches on Monday, but I wanted to post here as well that any students wishing to be considered for the Ohio 2015 NASAT team to please PM me on here, or email me at djones@[REMOVENOSPAM]northmontschools.net. I have taken over for Joe and will be coaching the team again this year.

Given the issues that we had last year with players committing to the team, please only express interest if you intend to practice with the team (online) before the event and then actually compete at the event. I know there was a great deal of frustration among those involved in the process last year with having to find players at the last minute to fill in when people decided that they didn't want to play or had other commitments. Given the number of players who express interest, we will decide what means are best appropriate for a tryout. Ohio has always performed very well at this event, and I hope that with a solid senior class around the state this year we can do even better.

Please let me know if you have questions!!
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Re: NASAT 2015

Postby Djones » Tue Jan 27, 2015 9:55 am

More than likely, we will take the four students who played last year automatically since they have experience unless we seem some major reason not to.

Students expressing interest thus far:
Sam Blizzard (Northmont)
Nour Hijazi (Sidney)
Jack Martin (Sidney)
Aaron Jenson (Sidney)
Sayeef Moyen (Copley)
Kara Combs (Northmont)
Lauren Papp (Northmont)
Rohin Devanathan (Solon)
John Xiang (Solon)
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Re: NASAT 2015

Postby Bluejay » Sat Mar 07, 2015 7:42 pm

How is this going along?
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Re: NASAT 2015

Postby Jarret Greene » Sun Apr 19, 2015 7:18 pm

Bluejay wrote:How is this going along?
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Re: NASAT 2015

Postby Djones » Sun Apr 19, 2015 7:45 pm

The OAC committee decided to not fund the team in 2015, so things have been in a great deal of flux over the last few weeks. (Hence my lack of response to Jasper- I didn't know what was going happen). The situation was resolved by having Northmont agree to pick up a significant portion of the cost of the team, with participants having to cover a portion of the cost to play. We finished our analysis yesterday, contacted the players to confirm their attendance and ability to contribute to the cost, and our team was approved by HSAPQ this afternoon. Team Ohio will be:

Sam Blizzard (Northmont)
Jack Martin (Sidney)
Nour Hijazi (Sidney)
Rohin Devanthan (Solon)
John Xiang (Solon)
Laurel Spangler (Tippecanoe)

I am very confident that this team has the potential to do very well in the tournament and build on our solid finishes the past couple of years. We have two tremendous generalists who are good at science, as well as specialists in lit, fine arts, social science and history. Additionally, the three teams who have consistently finished at the top of just about every event in the state are strongly represented. After talking to the Texas folks when we played Texas Open, we mirrored their process of analyzing data (of which we have plenty) and knowledge of teams and players to make team selections.

There were several great players who were considered, but one thing we took very seriously in our selection was reliability. We had several players who were selected last year withdraw from the team in the weeks leading up to the tournament for various reasons, so we took a great deal of time this year confirming that the players selected this year were committed to playing. Our team was definitely weakened last year by the withdraw of players, and while Nour and Kara did an admirable job filling in with next to no notice, Joe was clearly left scrambling to fill our roster at the last minute and we definitely had a hole in our fourth spot that cost us at least one game. I was committed to making sure that did not happen this year and know that each of the players selected is excited to represent our state.
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Re: NASAT 2015

Postby Bluejay » Sun Apr 19, 2015 11:26 pm

Glad to hear the situation was resolved. That looks like a good, solid team. Best of luck at NASAT!
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