Photo Identification:  Dave Johns, Tim Green NYS TWS President, Rich Stanton (team captain), Bettina Scherer, and Jenny Murtaugh

SUNY Cobleskill Team Tops 1st State Wildlife Quiz Bowl

SUNY Cobleskill what brought home top prize from the first Wildlife Society NYS Quiz Bowl, held in Owego early this month in conjunction with the annual meeting of the New York State Chapter of The Wildlife Society.  The four-student team was awarded a large moose antler that now becomes the traveling trophy for the new state-level competition modeled after the contest held at the national meeting each year.

SUNY Cobleskill’s team of Richard Staton of Buffalo, David Johns of Marcellus, Bettina Scherer of Kingston and Jenny Murtaugh of Schenectady defeated the team from Paul Smith’s College, 105 to 10, in the first round.  They went on to beat the team from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry twice in a the double elimination tournament (125-55, 155-115).

According to SUNY Cobleskill Professor Kevin Berner, advisor to the college’s chapter of the The Wildlife Society, the SUNY Cobleskill team was the winner of the very first national Wildlife Quiz Bowl in 1998.  They are the only college or university in the country to have competed in every annual competition since that inception.