“One player is not enough. It takes a team to win a championship,” said Tryon’s Alex Harrelson.

TJCA’s High School Quiz Bowl team won medals for finishing in second place behind Myers Park High School of Charlotte, but ahead of Raleigh’s Millbrook HS and NC School of Science and Mathematics in Durham.

TJCA is a public charter school located in Rutherford County offering a tuition-free college-preparatory education to students in grades Kindergarten through 12. Twenty-five  students from Polk County currently attend TJCA constituting two percent of the school’s student population.

– article submitted by Petra Harrelson