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Aggies take Wildlife National Quiz Bowl
Oct. 6, 2009
Contact: Bill Gibbs, billgibbs@tamu.edu, 979-777-0171 
COLLEGE STATION—A team from Texas A&M University has won the 2009 Wildlife Society National Quiz Bowl Competition, held Sept. 22 in Monterey, Calif.
Aggie team members Caleb Carter of Longview, Drew Fowler of Sugar Land, Andrew Maddox of Houston, and team captain Samantha Reinhart of Fort Sill, Okla., upset a team from California’s Humboldt State University 165-130 in the championship round.
Humboldt State had won the competition in 2006, 2007 and 2008.
The Texas A&M team last won the competition in 2005.
Texas A&M team also beat teams from Penn State University, the State University of New York-Syracuse and Utah State University to advance to the finals. Teams from 14 universities from across the nation competed in the tournament.
The National Quiz Bowl tests students’ knowledge in a variety wildlife management and conservation topics, including ecology, taxonomy, history and law, disease and pathology, and biodiversity.
All members of the Aggie team are majoring in wildlife and fisheries sciences and are members of the Texas A&M chapter of the Wildlife Society. Dr. Douglas Slack is the chapter advisor. Slack is a Regent's Professor and associate head in the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences.
The Wildlife Society, founded in 1937, is a professional international non-profit scientific and educational association.
Photo: Left to right: Dr. Douglas Slack (advisor), Andrew Maddox, Samantha Reinhart, Drew Fowler, and Caleb Carter. The team is holding a painting by Chester O. Martin. The painting was awarded to the championship team.
For more information:
Wildlife Society
About the college:
With an enrollment of almost 6,700 students in 14 academic departments, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University offers more than 80 undergraduate and graduate degrees and has a faculty of nearly 400 members, including two Nobel laureates. Research programs include food sustainability and safety, human and animal health, genetics, renewable natural resources and bioenergy. Mark Hussey is Vice Chancellor and Dean.
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