On Monday morning, to avoid a repeat of what happened in the Atchafalaya Basin on the way to Atlanta, here, the Hornets are going to leave Atlanta for the Jerry Simmons Stadium first, where the superintendent plans on honoring both teams along with Memorial Day's festivities. The VAs check out about fifteen minutes later, getting out of the hotel, and with the players being given the opportunity to rotate the music on their way back to Jefferson Davis Parish, along with a pack of LED bulbs.

Upon arriving at the stadium that night, where both Hornets and Venomous Agendas fans show up, along with their respective principals, it also happens that a handful of in-state TV networks are also present to cover the homage paid by the parish to its two quiz bowl teams at the HSNCT.

"For the first time in state history have two teams reached the top-ten at the High School National Championship Tournament in quiz bowl. Further, both teams represent schools from the same parish, the Hathaway Hornets, finishing eighth, and the Venomous Agendas, finishing fifth!"

Both teams line up in front of the cameras, and then journalists question the players about their experience at the HSNCT. And, even though the two teams are bitter rivals in tournaments, they both deserve their place in the spotlight today.

Once the TV networks are done covering both quiz bowl teams, other announcements are forthcoming for VA.

"From next season onward, uniforms will be paid for by Venomous Agenda student-athletes irrespective of sport; however, student-athletes will be able to keep their uniforms for the entire duration of their studies" Norman announces as a cost-saving measure to enable VA to afford the costs of moving up to 4A two seasons down the road.

For football, this would mean ca. $300 for the jersey and pants, for basketball, cross-country and track, $80, $175 for softball and baseball... and this makes it so that some players will make some sacrifices just for the uniforms, even with the travel costs still falling under the parish's purview as opposed to the school's.

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"This is Jabari, assistant principal and athletic director of VA. I hereby announce that I will leave VA effective June thirty to become the new principal of Rayne"

Marianne's actions in the Atchafalaya Basin, reported by the players upon returning home, caused her to be banned from coaching quiz bowl for life by the LQBA. And get fined $500 for reckless driving in the swamp, albeit the day after Memorial Day.

This caused her to resign and then move out of state for another job, becoming the principal of some rural high school without a pre-existing quiz bowl team, and starting one. She even coaches it because quiz bowl coaching bans are not always enforced across state borders.

And, in the rare instances where wrongdoing occurs in NAQT-sanctioned quiz bowl tournaments, NAQT tended to punish players and officials, rather than coaches, so Hathaway wasn't handed a postseason ban.

Hornets quiz bowl never again achieved another top-20 at the HSNCT, even under a different coach.

VA's new AD is the head football coach, and becomes assistant principal as well, forcing VA to look for a new social studies teacher and that new teacher also happens to be coaching softball and baseball once at VA. Another teacher who's familiar with strength and conditioning training in a football context takes up that position, but the special units coordinator position ends up being filled by a substitute teacher.

These actions finally seemed to slow down or even stop the flow of kids transferring out of VA for athletic reasons, and VA winds up staying in 4A for years after finally starting to dent into their athletic backlog. Yet, VA remains a relatively underfunded sports school, albeit in 4A, which tends to have bigger athletic budgets than in 3A.

Ena keeps a close watch on VA students, exchange or not, not becoming principal until much later in life.

As for Steven, he keeps coaching the debate team, with the team earning Nats berths, sometimes at the district qualifier, sometimes at Last Chance, but not necessarily every year. And he also counsels other kids for college, too.

And yet, Flo never tried her hand at school administration, feeling like working as a school administrator would be too much pressure. She'd happily keep coaching quiz bowl and judging online debate tournaments if needed, especially Last Chance, in addition to teaching French.