A whopping ten Northern California juniors are ranked in the top 50 of the USCF Top 100 Juniors (U21) list for June! For those mathematically challenged, this statistic means 20% of the nation's elite juniors play in the Bay Area!Five of these ten stars are still in K-12 school; the other five attend local universities. In fact, four of the top 100 young chess players in the country can be found on the Stanford University chess team (see photo above). I guess that's just one more reason to get good grades and apply to Stanford. Except for those offering chess scholarships, I wonder if any other universities can match this feat?
- #6 IM Sam Shankland, 2481, 17
- #11 FM Elliott Liu, 2405, 19 (attends Stanford; from S. California)
- #15 FM Danya Naroditsky, 2378, 13
- #20 NM Steven Zierk, 2333, 15
- #26 NM Daniel Schwarz, 2313, 19 (attends Stanford)
- #36 NM Julian Landaw, 2284, 19 (attends UC Berkeley; from S. California)
- #42 NM Drake Wang, 2262, 19 (attends Cal Poly SLO)
- #46 NM Greg Young, 2249, 14
- #48 NM Jimmy Heiserman, 2236, 20 (attends UC Davis; from Texas)
- #50 NM Rohan Agarwal, 2231, 16
- #53 NM Vaishnav Aradhyula, 2226, 18 (attends Stanford; from Arizona)
- #96 Christopher De Sa, 2158, 18 (attends Stanford; from Arizona)
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