Bible Bowl team on 2-year win streak
The Wind Valley Bible Bowl team members include Beck and Anson Bartrand of Schawana, third and fourth from left, Adam Rinaldi of Cle Elum, Abe Shouse of Cle Elum, and Benjamin Rentfro of Cle Elum. The coach for the team is Meg Bartrand of Schawana, back right.
SCHAWANA - If you're ever invited to a Bible knowledge competition, you may want to make sure the opposition is not the Wind Valley Bible Bowl team. You'll likely lose.
Wind Valley, which won the Bible Bowl national competition in Michigan last year could do it again this year. It is still on a winning streak.
Wind Valley is coached by Meg Bartrand of Schawana, a math teacher at Hanford High School. Two of the team members are her sons Beck and Anson.
Wind Valley added to the win streak last weekend with a victory at the Conference Level challenge in Spokane. It had taken first place in the Columbia Basin Regional Bible Bowl last month (Jan. 18).
If Wind Valley takes first at the Upper Columbia Conference Level, next, it will move on to the North Pacific Union Level in March. Then, possibly, it would compete at the North American Division Level in Michigan in April.
Wind Valley is a part of the Wind Valley Pathfinder Club, which is a scout-like Christian organization for boys and girls in 5th-10th grades.
Each year the Bible Bowl covers a different book of the Bible. Last year the book was the Gospel of Mark. This year the study is over Second Samuel. Next year the teams will be studying Matthew.
This recent success follows Wind Valley's undefeated season last year, when it took first place at all four levels. It culminated in the trip to Michigan.