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Top Scholastic Players as of December 2012

Congratulations to those in the top ten nationwide for their age group: Aydin Turgut(4th in age 8), David Peng (2nd in age 9), Sam Schmakel (8th in age 16), and Adarsh Jayakumar (8th in age 18).

Ages 7 and under

Rank Name Rating
24 (tie) Stefan Musikic 1377
69 (tie) Aaron Gan (age 6) 1147

Age 8

4 Aydin Turgut 1759
53 Michael Geohas 1392
61 Brian Hope Gong 1338
88 Advaith Prabu 1225
93 William Zhu 1203

Age 9

2 David Peng 2108
16 Jason Daniels 1700
52 Shreya Mangalam 1509
94 Ricky Wang 1375

Age 10

15 Vincent Do 1925

Age 11

13T Matthew Stevens 1965
45 Akhil Kalghatgi 1793
53 Nikhil Kalghatgi 1770
55 Hanson Ho 1765
65 Jack Xiao 1728
69 Jonathan Tan 1715
82 Miranda Liu 1673
89T Rishi Narayanan 1661

Age 12

14 Zhaozhi Li 2112
21 Alex Bian 2032
55 Anshul Adve 1886
57 Abe Sun 1874
70 Jack Curcio 1802
71 Daniel Bronfeyn 1799
85 Blair Hu 1759
95 Andrew Fei 1742

Age 13

27T Zachary Holecek 1987
43 Spencer Lehmann 1914
60 Bryce McClanahan 1858
92T Ian Gilchrist 1754

Age 14

68T Jonathan Hrach 1875

Age 15

33T Gavin McClanahan 2063
43 Max Zinski 2037
71 Nathan Kranjc 1961
83 Penny Xu 1906

Age 16

8 Sam Schmakel 2263
87 Jimi Akintonde 1886

Age 17

12 Jonathan Kogan 2228
47 Robert Moskwa 2048
79 Chengliang Luo 1940
84T Charles Swan 1925

Age 18

8 Adarsh Jayakumar 2349
19T Matthew Wilber 2183
29 Kent Cen 2122
56T Josh Dubin 1966
61 Rafeh Qazi 1958
72T Benjamin Stern 1927
87T Akshay Indusekar 1880

Girls

For girls under 16, Penny Xu is ranked 25th in the country (1906), Miranda Liu is 65th (1673), Caeley Harihara is 71st (1645) and Shayna Provine is 89th (1581).

For girls under 13, Miranda is rated 23rd, Shayna is 37th, Shreya Mangalam, aged 9, is 47th (1509).

Also under 13, Cassie Parent (1455) is 60th, Anjali Toly is 67th (1433), and Shvetali Thatte is 92nd (1347).

Impressively, Penny, Miranda and Shreya are in the top 100 of their age groups irrespective of gender.