The 2021-2022 Class of Warren Junior Scholars and Rising Stars
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- Written by Eric Luster Eric Luster
- Published: 23 November 2021 23 November 2021
The Illinois Chess Association is proud to announce the 2021-2022 class of Warren Junior Scholars and Rising Stars.
The Warren Junior Scholar program was started over 30 years ago by Helen Warren, a past ICA president, to recognize the most accomplished and promising scholastic chess players in the state. In 2015, the Rising Stars program was added to recognize the next tier of up and coming scholastic players. These two programs together recognize the top scholastic chess talent in our state. Invitation to these programs is based on USCF chess ratings and active participation in chess tournaments.
In addition to providing recognition to these players, the program’s purpose is to nurture the highest-potential scholastic chess players so that they may compete on a national and international stage, and to provide students with an opportunity for rigorous study that will give them the skills to become leaders in other fields as adults.
More information about these programs can be found here: http://www.il-chess.org/aboutwjrs-72.
Many events for this group are already in the planning stage for this year, including Sunday evening online training sessions, an in-person or online training day and awards banquet with a date TBD and several online tournaments.
Although a lot of effort is put into identifying the players who qualify for this program, it is possible that some players may have been inadvertently missed. If you are aware of a player who should be on the list but isn’t, please check the qualifications HERE and then email name, USCF #, and grade to wjs@il-chess.org.
If you find your name on this list, you should have already received an email from the director. If not, please email Mr. Luster at wjs@il-chess.org.
Congratulations from the ICA!
The 2021-2022 Illinois Chess Association’s Warren Jr. Scholars and Rising Stars
Warren Jr. Scholars
Saanvi Adusumalli |
Rohit Guha |
Shakira Luster |
Patrick Rao |
Ashley Yan |
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Sarah Lin |
Aditya Gupta |
Sadkrith Malladi |
Shreyas Reddy |
Anthony Yang |
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Mohit Bayyarapu |
Aria Hoesley |
Vikram Oberai |
Anshul Shetty |
David Yong |
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Scott Escalera |
Jack Heller |
Gabriel Gronski |
Margarita Tsyganova |
Owen Zhang |
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Nicholas Bruha |
Nicholas Laden |
Anisha Oberai |
Julian Wang |
Alex Zhao |
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Ria Raj |
Michael Li |
Elijah Platnick |
Colin Wicks |
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Avi Kaplan |
Louisa Zhang | Natalie Wisniowski | Vamsi Munaganuri |
Rising Stars
William Cahill |
Gunn Kim |
Sanjith Prabhu |
Linda Pham |
Christopher Von Hoff |
Arnav Gupta |
Layla Rodriguez |
Justin Zhang |
Ethan Gagliano |
Himani Musku |
Christopher Sakaliyski |
Jacob Plotnick |
Maurya Chandra |
Andrey Novikov |
Aryan Shrigadi |
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Dimitrios Deligiannis |
Aditya Oberai |
Aayush Thakkar |
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