Smith Center High School is sending a scholar bowl team to
the state meet for the first time in school history. From left
is Taylor Zabel, Alex Kirnie, Robert Strine, Payton Buckmaster
and Kelli Jones. Not pictured is team member Faith Karg.
SMITH CENTER, Kan. — Members of the Smith Center High School Scholars Bowl team make their principal nervous — and he says the 11 other teams competing in the 2A Kansas state meet today have reason to be nervous, as well.
Before the team's first-place finish at the Feb. 2 regional competition, Principal Greg Koelsch made the bet with team members that he would shave his hair into a Mohawk if the team won the state title.
"We've got a real solid team, and before regionals I knew they had a good chance of making it to state and competing very well," he said. "Just for incentive I told them I would do that. After their regional showing, I told their coach I'm getting a little nervous."
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