Warren Program Blog
2025 Class of Warren Junior Scholars and Rising Stars
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The Illinois Chess Association is proud to announce the 2025 class of Warren Junior Scholars and Rising Stars.
The Warren Junior Scholar program was started over 30 years ago by Helen Warren, a former 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. Together, these two programs 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 purpose of the program is to nurture the highest-potential scholastic chess players so that they may compete on the 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: HERE
Many events for this group are already in the planning stages for this year, including Sunday evening online training sessions, an in-person or online training day, an awards banquet (date TBD), and several online tournaments.
While much effort has been put into identifying the players who qualify for this program, it is possible that some players may have been inadvertently missed. If you know of a player who should be on the list but isn’t, please check the qualifications HERE and then email their name, USCF #, and grade to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
If your name is on this list, you should have received an email from the Director. If not, please email the WJSDirector at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Congratulations from the ICA!
Warren Junior Scholars 2025
AIDAN M CAREY* |
AITEGIN AKMATBEKOV* |
Aaron Gan* |
Aayush Thakkar* |
Adusumalli, Saanvi |
Anthony Chen* |
Arnav Karthikeyan |
Aryan Shrigadi |
Baker, Aidan* |
Barretto, Ryan Sanjay* |
Bowman, Deborah* |
CARTER WHALEY* |
Chen, Victoria |
Chennareddy, Yuvraj* |
Cortez, Rebecca* |
DAVID ROOSEVELT WALLACH* |
Danilyan, Eduard* |
Das, Debarghya |
Dimitri Deligiannis |
Dmitriev, Andrey* |
Dong, Andy* |
Elgat, Adam* |
FARIS ADAN PENA |
FM Lkhagvajamts, Ochirbat* |
Feng, Jay |
Gangavarapu, Sreekar |
Girish, Niyathi |
Gronski, Gabriel W* |
Gupta, Aditya* |
Himani Musku* |
JOSEPH DAI* |
JUSTIN LEE |
Jacob Plotnick |
Jiandani, Mehak S* |
Jonah Chen* |
Justin Zhang |
Kaplan, Avi Harrison |
Khanbutaev, Artemii |
Klugstedt, Vincent Christian |
Kumar, Advik |
Li, Aiden Linyuan |
Li, David Tongjia* |
Li, Michael* |
Lin, Sarah* |
MAHENDRA LAVANUR |
MERRILL LEE* |
MICHAEL CHIFLIKYAN* |
MR. DARIO PJEVIC* |
Malladi, Sadkrith* |
Manimaran, Shivani |
Mardov, Dimitar* |
Mehrotra, Ekansh |
Munaganuri, Vamsi* |
Munkhsuld, Bishrelt* |
NIKHIL SIVAKUMAR* |
Nali, Sahasra |
Oberai, Anisha* |
Pan, Alexander* |
Pham, Linda |
Pittala, Ashvath Reddy |
Podraza, Marcel* |
Prabhu, Sanjith |
Pragyan Misra |
RAY MINGYE SUN* |
RICK RUI WANG* |
ROHAN DILEEP MENON* |
Raj, Ria |
Rajkumar, Sachit Srinivas |
Rao, Anjaneya Sripathy |
Riji, Abinoam* |
Rishi Murali |
SHAINA BERMAN* |
SOHAN ANUP BENDRE* |
SOLOMIIA KUCHER* |
STANISLAU TSVIRKO* |
Saha, Anisha |
Sapru, Agastya* |
Schneider, Rosali* |
Sharad, Suhana* |
Shetty, Anshul P |
Silvestre, Lucas |
Sun,Yuanli* |
TUGSTUMUR YESUNTUMUR* |
Tang, Edward Jiayi |
Tang, Emily Jiaying |
Tikhomirov, Matthew |
VARUN GURRAMKONDA* |
VINAY SRIDHAR* |
VRISHANK RAMNATH |
Vanama, Agastya |
Vikram Oberai* |
WHITMAN KOSAK* |
WILLIAM WANG* |
Wang, Gaofei |
Wisniowski, Natalie |
Xia, Elizabeth* |
Xin, Stella |
Xu, Arthur* |
Yu, Matthew |
Zhan, Amy |
Zhang, Louisa* |
Zhang, Ryan |
Zhao, Alex* |
Zhou, Alex |
Rising Stars 2025
ALASTAIR WILLIAM KEELY-WALKER* |
ALEXANDER JAI DAS* |
ANDREW CAI* |
ANDREW ELLIOT* |
ANGELICA CAIRO* |
ASA LIEBERMAN* |
AYMANE BOUZAIDI TIALI* |
Aarav Shah |
Addanki, Asrith* |
Aditya Oberai* |
Amireddy, Sadhvi* |
Annapragada, Srivastav* |
Arnav Gupta* |
BENJAMIN VIRAMONTES* |
BRANDON ANTHONY CARDOZO* |
Banoth, Shanaya* |
Batmunkh, TSelmeg* |
Biswas, Avidha |
Bothe, Devaanshi* |
Bothe, Nysa* |
Colin Wicks* |
DANIEL S PINNOW* |
DAVID LI* |
DREW SALSKI* |
Davlatov, Atashbek A* |
ERIC SAXE* |
ETHAN DAVID ECKROTE VII* |
EVAN J HADDOX* |
Escalera, Scott Matthew* |
Fei, Ryun |
GAUTHAM RAMKUMAR* |
GRANT HEITMAN* |
Ganti, Aarnav |
Gopal, Sri Akshika* |
Gopal, Sri Krishav* |
HEMANTH SAMAYAMANTRI* |
HENRY SONDAG* |
HENRY ZASLOW* |
Han, Lillian* |
Hari, Nila* |
Holzman, Kyle* |
Hosomizu, Kyle |
IAN FERENC SEO* |
ISAAC KOH* |
ISHAAN JEAN* |
JAMES FRIEDRICH MONTELLA* |
JASON ZHOU* |
JOSEPHINE GRACE SWAN* |
JOSHUA WANG* |
JOSIAH BOVEY* |
JUNHO PARK* |
Jiandani, Ansh H* |
Juturu, Vaibhav |
KAVIN ANUP BENDRE* |
KAVIN PETER* |
KAYLEE ZHENG* |
Kadon Scott* |
Kemeny, Sam* |
Kumar, Eesha |
LEON RAPOPORT* |
LORENZO ANAGNOST* |
LUCIA J SCRIMENTI* |
Li, Eddy* |
Li, Ethan* |
Liu, Catherine* |
Lopez, Joshua* |
MARWAN HAMOUI* |
MASON QIAO* |
MATTHEW SIMPSON* |
MEILIN HOSHINO* |
MERIS X GOLDFARB* |
MICHAEL JAN PRZYBYL* |
MILLAN WHITTIER* |
MR. GEORGIOS ALEXANDER APOSTOLOPOULOS* |
MR. NIRVAN KORAMPALLY* |
Mahesh, Praakruthi |
Mathew, Anjali* |
Minor Vellapandi, Aadhisudhan* |
NATHAN JAMES HIESTAND* |
NATHANIEL BAFIA* |
NAYAN MATHRANI* |
NEIL GANI* |
NICHOLAS JOSEPH MCCLINTOCK* |
NIMAY PIPARIA* |
NIRALI MOHAPATRA* |
NITHIN RAMASAMY* |
Namuunbayar, Enkhjin* |
OZAN MIXON* |
Ordway, Andrew* |
Owen Zhang* |
PALASH GUPTA* |
PATRICK NEIBEL-SPRUILL* |
PAUL JOSEPH HOGAN* |
PAUL SCOTT HANRAHAN* |
PEYTON SATTLER* |
PHILIP ROSS* |
PRAJWAL JADHAV* |
Pashyan, Sofia* |
Pashyan, Stella* |
RAHUL RAJESHKUMAR* |
RAHUL SAI POTHABATHULA |
RONNY BAO* |
RYAN ZHANG YAO* |
Ranjan, Nysa |
SAKETH VISWANADHA* |
SAMI KHAN* |
SANJAY ADVANI* |
SHANE ASBRA* |
SHIVAN SACHDEV* |
SHRINIDHIN SENTHILKUMAR* |
SOMIL SHAH BOSE* |
SRIKAR JAYAM* |
SRIVARUN VOKKARANE* |
SUHURITH MALLADI* |
Sathish, Madhuvanti* |
Sharma, Adwik* |
Sheridan, Wayra |
TANIRIKA SAHOO |
TATE DARIN* |
TIMUR TURBA* |
TROY GONZALES* |
Tcheng, Gene* |
VALERIE YAN |
VANSHIKA BANDARU* |
VISHWAK JALAGAM* |
Vignesh, Krish* |
Vogel, Dylan John |
WILLIAM QUINN* |
WILLIAM WANG* |
Wang, Julian* |
Wong, Megan E* |
XANDER VAN HORN* |
ZACHARY DAVID ZURAWSKI* |
ZALAN GYORGY* |
Zhang, Dominic R* |
Zhao, Sophia* |
* pending veification, please contact the WJSDirector at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Full program schedule coming soon!