Buffalo High School

There are enough variables in Knowledge Bowl competition that Buffalo High School’s defending state champions took a realistic view about their odds of repeating a first-place finish.

No team, as far as the group was aware, had been able to do it before, but it was still their goal as they competed against 23 other teams in the large-school Class AAA competition at Cragun’s Resort in Brainerd Thursday and Friday, April 13-14.

In the end, the Bison took second place with 125.5 points. Owatonna took the title with 157.5 points, Minnetonka was third with 121, and Moorhead was fourth with 119.

Four years ago Kylie Cox, then a ninth-grader at Buffalo High School, learned that the spring play she and her classmates were preparing for, Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” would be canceled due to the onset of COVID-19.

Now a senior preparing for the final show of her high school career, Cox will finally get the chance to finish what she started when BHS students present “Twelfth Night” Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 20-22, in the Performing Arts Center. Each show begins at 7:30 p.m.

By any measure, the five members of Buffalo High School’s top Knowledge Bowl team have already had stellar careers in the academic competition.

They are the defending state champions, having earned the title as juniors. They became the youngest team to ever place at state as sophomores. They are one of the few – perhaps the only – team of individuals to qualify for the state competition three years in a row.

This week they will attempt to become the first team in Minnesota to win the state title twice. They will compete against 23 other teams in the large-school Class AAA competition at Cragun’s Resort in Brainerd Thursday and Friday, April 13-14.

Sometimes a small act can make a big difference, and setting aside time to donate blood is certainly one of those situations.

The Buffalo High School National Honor Society organized the school’s second blood drive of the year – one that welcomed both students and community members – on Friday, March 17. When all was said and done, 121 total donors donated 107 units of blood, which according to the Red Cross has the potential to save up to 299 lives. The day’s goal was to collect 90 units, so the overall effort was a resounding success.

It’s a rare student who can simultaneously excel in the classroom, on the playing field and in creative expression, but Buffalo High School seniors Victoria Viteri and Matthew Scherber have distinguished themselves in all three areas to become the school’s Triple ‘A’ Award winners for 2022-23.