5 Featured Players in the Age 18 Category
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- Written by Eva Harrison Eva Harrison
- Published: 24 June 2021 24 June 2021
While neither the results of the ICA’s Youth Invitational nor those of the prestigious 2021 Chicago Open made the cutoff for the most recent rankings for Top 100 Girls from Illinois, there was some fluctuation on the lists due to birthdays, as a result of which Illinois now boasts 5 young ladies in the Age 18 group—a first since 2017.
Of those 18-year-olds, Shreya Mangalam has achieved the highest rating of 2132 in the Illinois chess community of female players. Natalie Wisniowski (age 15) and Aria Hoesley (age 17) both sit at 4th on the ranking lists nationwide for their respective age groups. Congratulations to our top-rated players and all the others mentioned below on their amazing accomplishments. Keep competing!
The lists compiled by US Chess are based on regular ratings achieved and processed by the third Wednesday of the previous month, in this case May 19, 2021. Only current US Chess members with established ratings and ratings activity in the last year are shown.
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US Rank Player (US Chess ID) May ’21 Cutoff
| Age 7 and Under | ||
| 25 | Bothe, Devaanshi (17073438) | 229 |
| Age 8 | ||
| 63 | Berkey, Rebekah (16585623) | 476 |
| Age 9 | ||
| 15 | Jiandani, Mehak S (16108634) | 997 |
| 48 | Varadan, Vijayalakshmi (16801573) | 725 |
| 80 | Ranjan, Nysa (16761560) | 533 |
| Age 10 | ||
| 35 | Hu, Angela (16747812) | 1077 |
| 50 | Doddi, Sukhi (15850503) | 953 |
| 77 | Bothe, Nysa (17073423) | 815 |
| Age 11 | ||
| 26 | Pham, Linda (15464538) | 1375 |
| 100 | Sheridan, Wayra (16974060) | 873 |
| Age 12 | ||
| 16 | Raj, Ria (15844590) | 1630 |
| 60 | Namuunbayar, Enkhjin (15863824) | 1217 |
| 65 | Erdenebileg, Oyumaa (16243234) | 1177 |
| 88 | Girish, Niyathi (16221570) | 1054 |
| Age 13 | ||
| 26 | Zhao, Sophia Ziyan (16763001) | 1510 |
| 29 | Salian, Nisha (15767306) | 1493 |
| 33 | Lee, Merrill (15703571) | 1439 |
| 37 | Musku, Himani (15932133) | 1401 |
| 68 | Hong, Sophie (15947555) | 1189 |
| 75 | Liu, Catherine (15277304) | 1143 |
| 84 | Hu, Emily (16385785) | 1083 |
| 89 | Zheng, Kaylee (16232261) | 1056 |
| Age 14 | ||
| 15 | Adusumalli, Saanvi (15412194) | 1649 |
| 28 | Oberai, Anisha (15794814) | 1516 |
| 66 | Namuunbayar, Anujin (15863872) | 1157 |
| Age 15 | ||
| 4 | Wisniowski, Natalie (15702390) | 2006 |
| 14 | Luster, Shakira (15641127) | 1743 |
| 54 | Williams, Trechelle (15637011) | 1253 |
| 72 | Hill, Imani (16214855) | 1119 |
| Age 16 | ||
| 13 | Yan, Ashley (14957435) | 1912 |
| 32 | Tsyganova, Margarita (15922341) | 1630 |
| 36 | Lin, Sarah (15376582) | 1565 |
| 46 | Zhang, Louisa (15746981) | 1417 |
| 49 | Rodriguez, Layla (15360516) | 1381 |
| 60 | Nadkarni, Anusha (14789160) | 1219 |
| 73 | Varadharajan, Saigeetha (16773343) | 965 |
| 86 | Kuricheti, Umika (14579770) | 822 |
| 91 | Ananthakrishnan, Aparnaa (16253335) | 634 |
| Age 17 | ||
| 4 | Hoesley, Aria (14631046) | 2091 |
| 31 | Brahin, Lizzy (15698350) | 1264 |
| 57 | Schwegel, Bernadette Olivia (15128161) | 871 |
| Age 18 | ||
| 5 | Mangalam, Shreya (14385521) | 2132 |
| 22 | Shklover, Diana (14672010) | 1527 |
| 25 | Grandy, Sarah Ruth (14279452) | 1446 |
| 26 | Phillips, Rebecca (16628621) | 1388 |
| 33 | Bates, Jade (15332430) | 1120 |