The Carper Award

The Dr. N. Gordon Carper Lifetime Achievement Award is given to members of the quizbowl community who exhibit dedication to and long-term support of collegiate academic competitions. It is named after Gordon Carper, the long-time quizbowl coach at Berry College who hosted the first non-College Bowl collegiate academic competitions.

Winners

• 1999: N. Gordon Carper
• 2000: Carol Guthrie
• 2001: Robert Meredith
• 2002: not presented
• 2003: Eric Hillemann
• 2004: Don Windham and Gaius Stern
• 2005: Charlie Steinhice
• 2006: R. Robert Hentzel
• 2007: Andrew Yaphe
• 2008: Chris Sewell
• 2009: Ezequiel Berdichevsky
• 2010: Subash Maddipoti
• 2011: Seth Teitler
• 2012: Jeff Hoppes
• 2013: Matt Weiner
• 2014: Susan Ferrari
• 2015: Jerry Vinokurov
• 2016: Andrew Hart
• 2017: Jonathan Magin
• 2018: Mike Bentley
• 2019: Rob Carson and Kelly McKenzie
• 2020: Alex Damisch and Mike Sorice
• 2021: Matt Bollinger and Jim Dendy
• 2022: Matt Jackson and Chris Borglum
• 2023: Edmund Dickinson and Joe Su