2025 Class of Warren Junior Scholars and Rising Stars

 

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

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*

Jacob Plotnick

Jiandani, Mehak S*

Jonah Chen*

Justin Lee

Justin Zhang

Kaplan, Avi Harrison

Khanbutaev, Artemii

Klugstedt, Vincent Christian

Kumar, Advik

Li, Aiden Linyuan

Li, David Tongjia*

Li, Michael*

Lin, Sarah*

MERRILL LEE*

MICHAEL CHIFLIKYAN*

MR. DARIO PJEVIC*

Mahendra Lavanur

Malladi, Sadkrith*

Manimaran, Shivani

Mardov, Dimitar*

Mehrotra, Ekansh

Munaganuri, Vamsi*

Munkhsuld, Bishrelt*

NIKHIL SIVAKUMAR*

Nali, Sahasra

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*

STANISLAU TSVIRKO*

Saha, Anisha

Sapru, Agastya*

Schneider, Rosali*

Shetty, Anshul P

Silvestre, Lucas

Solomiia Kucher*

Sun,Yuanli*

TUGSTUMUR YESUNTUMUR*

Tang, Edward Jiayi

Tang, Emily Jiaying

Tikhomirov, Matthew

VARUN GURRAMKONDA*

VINAY SRIDHAR*

VRISHANK RAMNATH

Vanama, Agastya

WILLIAM WANG*

Wang, Gaofei

Whitman Kosak*

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*

ASA LIEBERMAN*

AYMANE BOUZAIDI TIALI*

Aarav Shah

Addanki, Asrith*

Aditya Oberai*

Amireddy, Sadhvi*

Angelica Cairo*

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*

JOSHUA WANG*

JOSIAH BOVEY*

JUNHO PARK*

Jiandani, Ansh H*

Josephine Grace Swan*

Juturu, Vaibhav

KAVIN ANUP BENDRE*

KAVIN PETER*

KAYLEE ZHENG*

Kadon Scott*

Kemeny, Sam*

Kumar, Eesha

LEON RAPOPORT*

LORENZO ANAGNOST*

Li, Eddy*

Li, Ethan*

Liu, Catherine*

Lopez, Joshua*

Lucia Scrimenti*

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

SAMI KHAN*

SANJAY ADVANI*

SHANE ASBRA*

SHIVAN SACHDEV*

SHRINIDHIN SENTHILKUMAR*

SOMIL SHAH BOSE*

SRIKAR JAYAM*

SRIVARUN VOKKARANE*

SUHURITH MALLADI*

Saketh Viswanadha*

Sathish, Madhuvanti*

Sharad, Suhana*

Sharma, Adwik*

Sheridan, Wayra

TANIRIKA SAHOO

TATE DARIN*

TIMUR TURBA*

TROY GONZALES*

Tcheng, Gene*

VANSHIKA BANDARU*

VISHWAK JALAGAM*

Valerie Yan

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!