Bishop Sullivan Catholic High School of Virginia Beach repeated as champions of the annual Blue Crab Bowl, a regional academic competition that tests students’ knowledge of the oceans. The team earned the right to represent Virginia in the National Ocean Science Bowl (NOSB©) in Washington, D.C., on April 25–27. There the team faced 24 other regional champions from around the nation. They won two out of three of their round-robin matches and made it to the third round of double elimination—further than any previous Virginia team has gotten at NOSB©. This year’s Blue Crab Bowl, held at VIMS, featured sixteen teams representing fifteen high schools from all corners of the Commonwealth. Eighty students spent the day in heated tournament competition focused on the marine sciences. Grafton High School took second place. In third place was Chesapeake Bay Governor’s School-Glenns Campus, followed by Seton School of Manassas in fourth place. Seventy-five faculty, staff, and graduate students from VIMS and Old Dominion University donated many hours of their time to ensure the success of the event. Virginia’s contest, now in its twelfth year, is among the inaugural marine science bowls started in 1998.
