Lois Fink

Allegheny Valley, PA

Domination has been used to describe many of the academic games coaching reigns, but no other coach can match Lois Fink's run of 12 consecutive Team Sweepstakes National titles.  Each year, there was a new group of students to coach; each year, Allegheny Valley absolutely overwhelmed all of the competition.  Her players won about 25 Individual, 40 Team, and 12 Team Sweepstakes National championships.  In the early 70s, Lois Fink's excellence served as the beacon light to change the Elementary Division from a small host of about 5 - 10 teams in each game to its present structure of 25 - 75 teams per game, the largest of the Divisions in AGLOA Tournaments.

Lois Fink taught and coached academic games for 13 years in the Allegheny Valley School Distric. She died in 1981 of melanoma. David Fink, her husband of 30 years, has also passed away. Her daughter, Lauren, is a director for Alcoa in Pittsburgh with undergraduate and graduate degrees from Carnegie Mellon University. She and her husband, John, have two sons, Joel and Paul, of whom their grandparents would be proud. Lois' son, David, also a Carnegie Mellon graduate, works in the hardware business and is married with no children.
1969 Elem Wff 'N Proof (Indiv)
1969 Elem Propaganda (Indiv)
1969 Elem World Events (Indiv)
1973 Elem Mathematics (Indiv)
1973 Elem Strangebdflws (Indiv)
1973 Elem Presidents (Indiv)
1973 Elem Social Studies (Indiv)
1974 Elem LinguiSHTIK (Indiv)
1974 Elem Prop/Strange (Indiv)
1974 Elem Language Arts (Indiv)
1974 Elementary Presidents (Indiv)
1974 Elem World Events (Indiv)
1974 Elem Social Studies (Indiv)
1976 Elem Mathematics (Indiv)
1976 Elem LinguiSHTIK (Indiv)
1976 Elem Language Arts (Indiv)
1976 Elem Presidents (Indiv)
1976 Elem World Events (Indiv)
1976 Elem Social Studies (Indiv)
1977 Elem Equations (Indiv)
1977 Elem On-Sets (Indiv)
1977 Elem Mathematics (Indiv)
1977 Elem LinguiSHTIK (Indiv)
1977 Elem Language Arts (Indiv)
1977 Elem World Events (Indiv)
1977 Elem Social Studies (Indiv)
1978 Elem Equations (Indiv)
1978 Elem On-Sets (Indiv)
1978 Elem Mathematics (Indiv)
1978 Elem Presidents (Indiv)
1978 Middle Social Studies (Indiv)
1979 Elem On-Sets (Indiv)
1979 Elem Mathematics (Indiv)
1979 Elem LinguiSHTIK (Indiv)
1979 Elem Presidents (Indiv)
1979 Middle Prop/Strange (Indiv)
1979 Middle Language Arts (Indiv)
1980 Elem Language Arts (Indiv)
1980 Elem Social Studies (Indiv)
1981 Middle World Events (Indiv)		 1969 Elem Wff 'N Proof (Team)
1969 Elem Propaganda (Team)
1969 Elem World Events (Team)
1969 Elem Sweepstakes (Team)
1972 Elem Equations (Team)
1972 Elem On-Sets (Team)
1972 Elem Mathematics (Team)
1972 Elem Presidents (Team)
1972 Elem World Events (Team)
1972 Elem Social Studies (Team)
1972 Elem Sweepstakes (Team)
1973 Elem Equations (Team)
1973 Elem On-Sets (Team)
1973 Elem Mathematics (Team)
1973 Elem Strangebedfellows (Team)
1973 Elem Language Arts (Team)
1973 Elem Presidents (Team)
1973 Elem World Events (Team)
1973 Elem Social Studies (Team)
1973 Elem Sweepstakes (Team)
1974 Elem On-Sets (Team)
1974 Elem LinguiSHTIK (Team)
1974 Elem Language Arts (Team)
1974 Elem Presidents (Team)
1974 Elem World Events (Team)
1974 Elem Social Studies (Team)
1974 Elem Sweepstakes (Team)
1975 Elem On-Sets (Team)
1975 Elem Mathematics (Team)
1975 Elem LinguiSHTIK (Team)
1975 Elem Prop/Strange(Team)
1975 Elem Language Arts (Team)
1975 Elem Sweepstakes (Team)
1976 Elem On-Sets (Team)
1976 Elem Mathematics (Team)
1976 Elem LinguiSHTIK (Team)
1976 Elem Language Arts (Team)
1976 Elem Presidents (Team)
1976 Elem World Events (Team)		 1976 Elem Social Studies (Team)
1976 Elem Sweepstakes (Team)
1977 Elem Equations (Team)
1977 Elem On-Sets (Team)
1977 Elem Mathematics (Team)
1977 Elem LinguiSHTIK (Team)
1977 Elem Prop/Strangebedfellows (Team)
1977 Elem Language Arts (Team)
1977 Elem World Events (Team)
1977 Elem Social Studies (Team)
1977 Elem Sweepstakes (Team)
1978 Elem Equations (Team)
1978 Elem On-Sets (Team)
1978 Elem Mathematics (Team)
1978 Elem LinguiSHTIK (Team)
1978 Elem Prop/Strangebedfellows (Team)
1978 Elem Language Arts (Team)
1978 Elem World Events (Team)
1978 Elem Presidents (Team)
1978 Elem Social Studies (Team)
1978 Elem Sweepstakes (Team)
1978 Middle World Events (Team)
1978 Middle Presidents (Team)
1978 Middle Social Studies (Team)
1978 Middle Sweepstakes (Team)
1979 Elem On-Sets (Team)
1979 Elem Mathematics (Team)
1979 Elem LinguiSHTIK (Team)
1979 Elem Presidents (Team)
1979 Elem Sweepstakes (Team)
1980 Elem LinguiSHTIK (Team)
1980 Elem Language Arts (Team)
1980 Elem World Events (Team)
1980 Elem Presidents (Team)
1980 Elem Social Studies (Team)
1980 Elem Sweepstakes (Team)
1980 Middle Presidents (Team)
1981 Elem Social Studies (Team)
1981 Elem Sweepstakes (Team)
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