United States National Team

The American (US) National Teams are from the United States of America, a North American country.

Quidditch

Quidditch was slow to catch on in the United States, where the game of Quodpot reigns supreme. However, it has been steadily gaining in popularity (QA8, Pm).

The US team had been captained twice by Seeker Maximus Brankovitch III at the time of the publication of Quidditch Through the Ages (QA8).

The US team were participants at the 2014 Quidditch World Cup in Argentina (Pm):

• The 2014 team members were: Arsenia Gonzales, Quentin Kowalski, Mercy Wardwell (Chasers); Pringle and Lucas Picquery (Beaters); Darius Smackhammer (Seeker); and Susan Blancheflower (Keeper).
• The team flies Starsweeper XXI brooms.
• Their first match at the tournament, against the Jamaican national side, was won by the narrow margin of 240 points to 230 after Jamaica’s Keeper, Kquewanda Bailey, collapsed due to an injury she had sustained during the opening ceremony.
• Playing their next match against Liechtenstein in the quarter-finals, the US won by a decisive 450 points to 290. Fan celebrations after the match got a bit out of hand, particularly as some over-exuberant US supporters kidnapped Liechtenstein’s team mascot, Hans the Augurey. This caused an international incident.
• A thrilling two-day match was lost to the Brazilian National Team by 420 points to 310.
• The play-off for third place was won by Japan (Japan 330 – USA 120). However, this was still considered a successful tournament for the American team overall (Pm).

Quodpot

The most popular broom sport in the United States, Quodpot is played in the Americas. It is also played in other countries as a “minority sport”, but has never eclipsed the worldwide popularity of Quidditch (QA8, Pm).