Ages 7, 9 and 16 each have three Illinois players ranked in the US Top 30's.  All totalled, 51 youth are on one of the Top 100's.

Eight Illinois players are in the Top 10 of their respective age group, with Aren Emrikian (7), Dimitar Mardov (9), and David Peng (14) all one spot away from highest honors.

Four females are on the lists irrespective of gender.

A remarkable 24 players are at 2000 or above this month -- with Edward Zhang and Rishi Narayanan within 10 rating points of that distinction.

Generally, a rating of 2000 places a player in the top 4% of the nation's tournament players -- and the top 1.5% of junior players.

Illinois has eight juniors above 2200 this month, with both Vincent Do and Anshul Adve also within 10 points of that mark. Both Vincent and Anshul have previously been above 2200, earning Master tites. A 2200-rating is generally among the top 1.5% of all players and top 0.5% of all US juniors.

Sadly, Illinois was shut out in the Age 11 category this month. Let's go 11 year olds!

  Ages 7 & Under
  2   Emrikian, Aren C (15766785) 1850
  14   Chennareddy, Yuvraj Rudra (15944053) 1534
  29   Shetty, Anshul P (15752957) 1309
         
  Age 8
  46   Mehrotra, Ekansh (15991103) 1392
  80   Li, Michael (15752152) 1289
  97   Bayyarapu, Mohit (15582120) 1230
         
  Age 9
  2   Mardov, Dimitar (15205818) 2054
  25   Yong, David (15273720) 1742
  28   Zhao, Alex (15335115) 1712
  76   Chen, David Baokang (15324980) 1517
  77   Elgat, Adam (15552450) 1512
         
  Age 10
  9   Xu, Arthur (14968896) 2023
  34   Wang, William (15270976) 1845
  72   Malladi, Sadkrith (15797710) 1669
  89   Cahill, William (15096335) 1619
         
  Age 11
  NO TOP 100's FROM ILLINOIS AT THIS TIME
         
  Age 12
  63   Rao, Patrick (14855075) 1868
  68   Bareket, Adam (14949325) 1853
  72   Bruha, Nicholas (15248108) 1845
  88   Ladan, Nicholas John (15092641) 1784
         
  Age 13
  7   Turgut, Aydin (14284734) 2253
  62   Hoesley, Aria (14631046) 1938
  73   Li, Si R (14231898) 1913
  89   Reddy, Shreyas (15276866) 1866
  94   Gong, Brian Hope (14663750) 1850
         
  Age 14
  2   Peng, David Tianjian (14195454) 2393
  29   Wang, Ricky (14403974) 2132
  43   Daniels, Jason Scott (14107163) 2067
  47   Mangalam, Shreya B (14385521) 2048
  61   Zhang, Edward (14685367) 1995
  87   Ho, Kevin (14701285) 1910
         
  Age 15
  29   Do, Vincent (13666696) 2198
  49   Li, Marissa (14468490) 2095
  84   Venkat, Abhyudhaya (14519152) 1973
  89   Ganesan, Ishaar Perumal (14072830) 1962
         
  Age 16
  10   Furfine, Jacob (13089315) 2334
  18   Stevens, Matthew James (13788934) 2235
  22   Kalghatgi, Akhil (13797215) 2213
  45   Kalghatgi, Nikhil (13797221) 2118
  78   Liu, Miranda (14042343) 2026
  90   Narayanan, Rishi T (13949428) 1991
         
  Age 17
  6   Li, Zhaozhi (13646954) 2464
  8   Bian, Alex (13257335) 2411
  35   Adve, Anshul (13296020) 2194
  37   Bartochowski, Nicholas J (13216472) 2183
  44   Curcio, Jack Thomas (13451367) 2151
  48   Bronfeyn, Daniel (13720325) 2127
  76   Fei, Andrew Yueyang (14064411) 2020
  79   Wei, James (13577813) 2010
         
  Age 18
  13   Lehmann, Spencer (13457744) 2300
  43   Denby, Caleb Sean (14361200) 2136
  98   Tompkins, Tyler (13519790) 1903