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Oak Ridge teams excel at state chess team championships

Posted at 12:22 pm April 5, 2018
By Gilbert Chan Leave a Comment

Oak Ridge High School Freshmen Chess Team in March 2018: Levi Parish, Adam Herron, Kenny Adams, and Dan Joy (Photo courtesy Esther Parish)

Oak Ridge High School Freshmen Chess Team: Levi Parish, Adam Herron, Kenny Adams, and Dan Joy (Photo courtesy Esther Parish)

 

Every year, the top four scholastic chess teams in each of the four grade divisions qualify to join teams from the other three regions to compete for the Tennessee Chess Association scholastic team championships, which were held March 24 at Tennessee Tech University.

Four Oak Ridge schools—Linden Elementary School, Robertsville Middle School, Jefferson Middle School, and Oak Ridge High School—qualified a total of six teams for this year’s event. That meant that about 1/10th of the players were Oak Ridge students (Oak Ridge has about 0.4 percent of the state’s population).

In the Primary (K-3) section, the Linden team of Ricardo Smith, William Hetrick, Quinn Richardson, and Kaylee Tress finished 11th overall.

In the Elementary (K-6) section, Jefferson (Brian Qu, Isaak Nussbaum, Gavin Koentop, and Toby Croft) finished fifth, while Robertsville (Leo Ehlers, Patrick Wurm, Daisy Kercher, Brandon Bonamarte, and Zachary Williamson) took 10th. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Education, Front Page News, K-12, Top Stories Tagged With: Adam Herron, Andrew Brady, Bear Moran, Brandon Bonamarte, Brian Qu, chess, chess teams, Daisy Kercher, Dan Joy, Gavin Koentop, Henri Scott, Isaak Nussbaum, Jack Biewer, Jackson Johnson, Jefferson, Jefferson Middle School, Justin Blanchard, Kaylee Tres, Kenny Adams, Leo Ehlers, Levi Parish, Linden, Linden Elementary School, Nick Pelletier, Oak Ridge High School, Oak Ridge HS, Patrick Wurm, Quinn Richardson, Ricardo Smith, Robertsville, Robertsville Middle School, Steven Qu, Tennessee Chess Association, Tennessee Chess Association scholastic team championships, Toby Croft, William Hetrick, Zachary Williamson

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