TABC welcomed 150 eighth-graders last Saturday night for its second annual Tournament of Champions as prospective students got their first glimpse of life at TABC. The eighth graders were greeted by TABC students and faculty as they arrived and made their way to the hockey gym, where they fueled up on Krispy Kreme, heard some words of Torah from Rabbi Yoni Mandelstam and a brief rundown of the evening from Rabbi Jonathan Kessel.

Shortly after, the games began with competitions in basketball, chess, College Bowl, mini golf, Ping Pong and STEM. Music blasted and cheers erupted as the competitions got underway and the eighth graders got to know current students, faculty, rebbeim and potential future classmates. When the final whistles sounded, the visitors headed to the beit midrash for a melave malka and Chickies as video highlights of the TABC experience playing in the background. After brief remarks from Head of School Rabbi Shlomo Stochel, Rav Yitz Rabovsky, TABC’s director of Student Activities and Athletics, announced the winners who were each presented with a trophy and a limited-edition TABC Athletics shirt. Congratulations to basketball champion Eitan Popowitz (RYNJ), chess champion Jacob Herman (Yavneh), College Bowl champion Zachy Horwitz (Yavneh), mini golf champion Tani Fleischmann (He’Atid), ping pong champion Eitan Gilad (Yeshivat Noam) and the four STEM co-champions: Mo Max (SAR), Zachary Rabinowitz (Yavneh), Josh Gutwein (BPY) and Jordan Holand (Yavneh).

The excitement continues at TABC’s Open House for prospective students on Sunday, November 13, at 9:30 a.m. Register at tabc.org/openhouse.