[Kellen Hill]

1625's rookie year, at the 2005 St. Louis Regional, we sent a mentor out for alliance selections. We had no idea it was 'supposed' to be a student, but if I remember correctly, the team representative at the time was not required to be a student (I believe it was clearly spelled out in the rules the following year). We had no scouting system and decided our most qualified person for the job was this mentor that had been taking notes througout qualification matches.

We quickly figured out our mistake as we saw all of the other team representatives were students while ours was a 50 year old mentor with a beard and graying hair. It was a somewhat awkward situation as we had seeded 3rd and he was out on the field for all to see. I think we had some comments thrown our way of "the mentors must do everything on that team", but we just didn't know what we were doing!

He wound up doing a pretty good job as we picked two great robots (1444, 939) and walked away a regional winner.