Nicollet Middle School Chess Club
Congratulations to our Nicollet Knights 6th Grade Team for winning the SCA Statewide Elementary Championship last weekend!
The Statewide Individual Champion is our own Kerry Crawford! Also scoring were Connor Joseph (top 6th grade medal), John Blomer (runner up 6th grade medal), and Thomas Pritchard. Also participating were Spencer Pederson, Isabelle Burtnett, and Xavier Sachse.
(L to R: Jake Schoenbauer, David Santos, Kerry Crawford, Kenny Moe, Connor Moe, John Blomer, Thomas Pritchard, Owen Krick, Rynaldo Mejia, Aiden Callenius, Mason Pederson, Coach Ribnick; not pictured: Harrison Stage and Jeenal Sharma)
Congratulations to the Nicollet Middle School Chess team, which placed sixth in America at the National Junior High Chess Championships the last weekend of April!
Leading the way was team captain and first board Jacob Schoenbauer, who placed 60th. Other scorers were Harrison Stage, John Blomer and Jeenal Sharma.
Other Nicollet contributors were David Santos, Kerry Crawford, Kenny Moe, Connor Joseph, Thomas Pritchard, Owen Krick, Rynaldo Mejia, Aiden Callenius, and Mason Pederson. The team is coached by Brian Ribnick.
There were 56 teams that entered and about 570 players. Congratulations to the Nicollet Knights on an incredible effort!
The directors are now going through the 2,500 games that were played to carefully check for fair play. This will take some time, so the final official results will be posted by May 16th at the latest. It is possible for our team placement to change slightly based on this.
The team’s sixth graders will participate in the Minnesota Elementary chess championship this weekend.
Congratulations to our 2021 Middle School Chess State Champions – The Nicollet Knights!
This past weekend (April 10/11), Nicollet won its first state title in chess in the history of the school. Congratulations to the 20 participants that aided in this.
The team scorers were Rynaldo Mejia (4th place trophy), Jacob Shoenbauer (6th place trophy), Owen Steglich (11th place trophy) and Jeenal Sharma.
Other students who participated in the tournament included John Blomer, Isabelle Burtnett, Aiden Callenius, Kerry Crawford, Mavryk Eastman, Winston Ekstrand, Alec Erickson, Mitchell Kellen, Owen Krick, Soren Leafblad, Kenny Moe, Mason Pederson, Spencer Pederson, Thomas Pritchard, David Santos and Harrison Stage.
A huge shout out to Coach Ribnick for leading his teams to over 30 State and 20 National Scholastic Chess Championships!