The ACBL King or Queen of Bridge is a graduating

high school senior Twelfth grade, 12th grade, senior year, or grade 12 is the final year of secondary school in most of North America. In other regions, it may also be referred to as class 12 or Year 13. In most countries, students are usually between the ages of 17 ...

annually designated by the

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. Currently a $2000 scholarship accompanies the title. The King or Queen is the high school senior in North America (US, Canada, Mexico, and Bermuda) with the "best record in bridge". Students now formally enter the annual contest and identify their qualifications. Beside outstanding performance in bridge tournaments, the winner is commonly cited for sportsmanship and for "bridge activities such as teaching, directing, and unit/district participation". The King of Bridge was established in 1973 by Homer Shoop of Indiana as a prize for the high school senior with the greatest number of ACBL

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. The second and third winners, Jeff Meckstroth and Bobby Levin in 1974 and 1975, won the 1981 Bermuda Bowl as United States teammates; Levin was the youngest person to be a world champion at bridge. Several other Kings and Queens have become leading expert players.

Winners

* 1973, J Merril * 1974,

Jeff Meckstroth Jeffrey John (Jeff) Meckstroth (born May 15, 1956) is an American professional contract bridge player. He is a multiple world champion, winning the Bermuda Bowl on USA teams five times. He is one of only ten players who have won the so-called trip ...

* 1975,

Bobby Levin Robert J. (Bobby) Levin (born November 19, 1957) is an American professional bridge player, from Aventura, Florida. He was the youngest winner of the Bermuda Bowl world championship for national teams from 1981 until 2015, when 19-year old Michal K ...

* 1976, Warren Spector * 1977, Marc Franklin * 1978, Matthew K. Franklin * 1979, Regina Barnes * 1980, Tony Marks * 1981, Doug Levene, Steve Cochran * 1982,

Steve Weinstein Steve Weinstein (born 1964) is an American people, American professional Contract bridge, bridge and poker player. He is known best as the youngest winner of the American Contract Bridge League, ACBL Von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs, Life Master Pa ...

* 1983, Billy Hsieh * 1984, James Munday * 1985, Adair Gellman * 1986, Martha Benson ‡ * 1987, Richard Pavlicek, Jr. * 1988, Holly Zullo * 1989,

Brad Moss Michael Brad Moss (born February 5, 1971) is an American bridge player from Berkeley, California and New York City. He is the son of Gail Greenberg. Bridge accomplishments Awards * ACBL King or Queen of Bridge (1) 1989 * ACBL Player of the Y ...

* 1990, Eric Sutherland * 1991, Andrew Moss * 1992, Frederic Pollack * 1993,

Eric Greco Eric Alan Greco (born 1975) is an American bridge player. He is from Annandale, Virginia. Bridge accomplishments Awards * ACBL King or Queen of Bridge (1) 1993 Wins * North American Bridge Championships (20) ** von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs ...

* 1994, Sam Hirschman * 1995, Tony Melucci * 1996, Kent Mignocchi * 1997,

Joel Wooldridge Joel Powhatan Wooldridge (born July 19, 1979) is an American multi national champion and world junior champion in contract bridge as well as an expert foosball player. In 1990, Wooldridge broke Sam Hirschman's previous record for the youngest to ...

* 1998, Josh Heller * 1999,

Ari Greenberg Ari David Greenberg (born April 1, 1981 in Malibu, California) is an American world junior champion in contract bridge. A Stanford computer science graduate, Greenberg was previously employed Bridge Base, Google, and Facebook. He currently resides ...

* 2000,

Gavin Wolpert Gavin Wolpert (born 1984 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian-American professional bridge player. Personal life Garvin Wolpert was born in Toronto, Ontario to a bridge playing family. His mother Hazel, a bridge teacher, started to teach him bridge ...

* 2001, Erin Anderson * 2002,

John Kranyak John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second E ...

† * 2003, Scottie Waldron Jr. * 2004, Rob Glickman * 2005, David Banh * 2006, Sam Katz ‡ * 2007, Andrew Dubay * 2008, Jeremy Koegel * 2009, Nick Flores * 2010, Tom Walsh, Adam Grossack * 2011, Blake Sanders * 2012, Murphy Green * 2013, John Altman * 2014, Adam Kaplan, Allison Hunt † * 2015, Amber Lin * 2016, Burke Snowden * 2017, Richard Jeng * 2018, Reese Koppel * 2019, Louis Beauchet * 2020, Bo Han Zhu * 2021, Tammy Leon Molina * 2021, Arthur Zhou : ‡ 2006 King of Bridge Sam Katz is the son of 1986 Queen of Bridge Martha Benson. They are the only recipients related as child and parent. :† 2002 King of Bridge John Kranyak married 2014 Queen of Bridge Allison Hunt on June 16, 2018"John + Allison's Wedding"
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References

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