Gloucester High School’s Reach for the Top Team Were the 2010 Ontario Champions
Gloucester High School’s Reach for the Top team are the 2010 Ontario champions. The six Gloucester High School students strode to victory with a decisive 380–230 win over Burlington’s Assumption Catholic Secondary School in the final match of the academic quiz competition.
Forty league champions — representing approximately five hundred teams from around the province — participated in the event at Centennial College in Scarborough. On the first day of the competition teams were divided into five pools of eight teams each for round-robin play. Gloucester was one of four teams to finish the day with an unblemished 7–0 record. The Gloucester team consists of grade 12 students Peter McLaren (team captain) and Sahil Aggarwal, grade 11 students Darcy Bottomley and Merina Shulist, and grade 9 students Charles Li and Michael McLaren. Reach for the Top is coached by teacher Andrew Jeacle.