Academic Teams
RE's Academic Teams provide students the opportunity to learn and practice the skills needed to compete in National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT) and history tournaments. The competitions cover a wide variety of topics including history, mathematics, science, social sciences, the arts, religion and more. RE fields a junior varsity team made up of ninth and tenth-grade students, and a varsity squad for upperclassmen. Students practice after school and compete in local, regional and national tournaments.
Team News
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Academic team wins first place at local tournament
Ransom Everglades' academic "A" team – Jack Gonzalez ’28, Jaz Puri ’28, Julian Jelke ’29 and Aziz Apara ’29 – earned top honors at the 2026 Mason Classical Academy Fall Invitational in Naples on September 26. A second RE team – Hank Derick ’28, Noah Veras ’29, Raif London ’29 and Rohan Harihara ’30 – claimed third place at the National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT) event as Derick finished second in points per tossup questions heard. The entire team displayed honor and excellence under faculty members Sara Forbes and Joseph Marin.Read More -
Coach Joe Mauro inducted into hall of fame as Raiders score at national event
Veteran Ransom Everglades history and geography coach Joseph Mauro was named to the inaugural International Academic Competitions Coaches Hall of Fame on May 21, headlining a successful trip to the 2026 Middle and Elementary School National Championships in Orlando. Ransom Everglades sent 29 students – the largest contingent of any school in the country – to compete in the National History and Geography Bees and Bowls and the inaugural Model UN Championship.Read More -
Sophomore wins national title as upper school academic team excels
Jaz Puri ’28 captured the 2026 Junior Varsity National History Bee Championship in Arlington, Va., April 23-25, leading an impressive showing by Ransom Everglades’ academic team at the International Academic Competitions (IAC) National History Bee and Bowl Tournament. Puri also earned a gold medal on the Recent History exam, a silver on the Military History test and helped RE’s varsity team – which included Parker Jelke '27, Zach Corbin-Cheah '27 and Gabrielle Tchira '27 – to a fifth-place finish in the bowl event.Read More -
Middle school students dominate history and geography bee regional event
Read MoreRansom Everglades students delivered a dominant performance at the Middle School South Florida Winter Regionals in the History and Geography Bees on March 7, capturing 16 of the 18 total medals awarded across all events in the sixth, seventh and eighth-grade divisions. Noah Mitchell '31 led the effort with two gold medals, and Cam Fisser '30, Daniel Sigelman '32, Rohan Harihara '30 and Isidro Ferrer ’32 each earned one gold as RE's entire team competed with Honor & Excellence. -
Back-to-back sweeps for RE's academic teams
Read MoreRansom Everglades’ academic teams on both campuses achieved incredible results at events on back-to-back weekends, winning 10 gold medals and sweeping top honors at both the South Florida Winter History Bee and Bowl in Delray Beach on February 21 and the South Florida Regional History Bee and Bowl at the upper school on February 28. Among the most notable results: RE won consecutive gold medals in the varsity bowl division and saw a historic outing by the middle school teams at RE with a medals sweep in the seventh-/eighth-grade bee and the sixth-grade bee. -
RE scores third in regional science bowl
A team of student-scientists – Simone Carrasco ‘27, Max Grunwald ‘26, Nelson Manstein ‘26, Michael Sharp ‘27 and Alex Tevelow ‘28 – claimed third place in the South Florida High School Regional Science Bowl on February 21 at the University of Miami. The event, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, is a fast-paced, buzzer-style competition focused on STEM subjects that included 33 teams from around South Florida. RE faculty member Yuria Sharp mentored the three RE entries.Read More -
Academic teams excel at South Florida History Bee and Bowl
Ransom Everglades' upper school and middle school academic teams captured nearly all of the top awards at the South Florida History Bee and Bowl at Archimedean Upper Conservatory November 15, demonstrating RE students' mastery of historical facts and figures and their lightning-speed thinking. Ransom Everglades sent nine teams and 36 students to a major event that included 111 students and 32 teams from middle and high schools throughout South Florida.Read More -
RE sweeps ISSF Geography Bee titles
Read MoreRansom Everglades middle and upper school geography teams captured two major geography titles: RE's middle school team of Rohan Harihara '30, Alejandro Gonzalez '30, Izzy Greengrass '30, Cam Fisser '30 and Brady Goldberg '31 secured the fourth straight Independent Schools of South Florida Geography Bee championship for Ransom Everglades on October 21, compiling an undefeated record against eight opposing schools. Less than a month later, RE's upper school academic team of Jacob Aronow '26, Parker Jelke '27, Jaz Puri '28, Evan Powe '29 and Daniel Coscarelli '29 won the upper school ISSF Geography Bee, defeating 16 teams on November 18. -
Upper school academic teams excel at fall invitational
Ransom Everglades' upper school academic teams claimed first, second and fourth places at the South Florida Fall Invitational on October 11 on the Ransom Campus. Twelve teams from South Florida and Florida's southwest coast competed in the event, a qualifying tournament for the National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT) national championship in Atlanta in May. The winning team of Parker Jelke '27, Noah Veras '29, Julian Jelke '29 and Alex Tevelow '28 and the second-place finishers Jack Gonzalez '28, Harlan Hoenig '28, Ethan Moskovitz '27 and Selin Kaleli '28 advanced to the national championship.Read More -
RE middle schoolers score top finishes at National History Bee and Bowl
Read MoreRansom Everglades sent 30 students and five history bowl teams – the most of any school – to the National History and Geography Middle School Bee and Bowl in Orlando over Memorial Day weekend. RE’s history and geography teams earned top-10 finishes as 2,000 students from around the nation competed in a range of events.
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Coaches
List of 3 members.
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Abigail Berler
History & Social Sciences TeacherBates College - B.A.
Rutgers University - M.A. -
Sara Forbes
World Languages TeacherDenison University - B.A.
Middlebury College - M.A. -
Joseph Marin
History & Social Sciences TeacherMorehead State University - B.A.
Florida International University - M.A.
Florida International University - Ph.D.
Student Leaders
President: Jack Gonzalez ’28
Vice-President: Noah Veras ’29
Scribe: Gabrielle Tchira '27
Vice-President: Noah Veras ’29
Scribe: Gabrielle Tchira '27
Roster
Andrade, Diego '28
Apara, Aziz '29
Corbin-Cheah, Zachary '27
Coscarelli, Daniel '29
Derick, Henry '28
Fierro Garcia, Iker '28
Corbin-Cheah, Zachary '27
Coscarelli, Daniel '29
Derick, Henry '28
Fierro Garcia, Iker '28
Gonzalez, Alejandro '30
Gonzalez, Jack '28
Harihara, Rohan '30Gonzalez, Jack '28
Hoenig, Harlan '28
Huggins, Idris '29
Jelke, Julian '29
Jelke, Parker '27
Kaleli, Selin '28
London, Raif '29
Moskovitz, Ethan '27
Powe, Evan '29Huggins, Idris '29
Jelke, Julian '29
Jelke, Parker '27
Kaleli, Selin '28
London, Raif '29
Moskovitz, Ethan '27
Puri, Jaz '28
Sha, Nikhil '30
Tchira, Gabrielle '27
Tevelow, Alexander '28
Thornburg, Robert (Robby) '30
Veras, Noah '29
Tchira, Gabrielle '27
Tevelow, Alexander '28
Thornburg, Robert (Robby) '30
Veras, Noah '29
Middle School
2045 South Bayshore Drive, Coconut Grove, FL 33133Phone: 305 250 6850
Upper School
3575 Main Highway, Coconut Grove, FL 33133Phone: 305 460 8800
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Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. It is rated the top private school in Miami and among the 10 private schools in North America. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.
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Ransom Everglades School®, The RE Way®, RE Pathways® and Bowden Fellowships in the Humanities™ are trademarks of Ransom Everglades School.