Northern Idaho Scholastic Novice Chess Championships

The Idaho Chess association held the Northern Idaho Scholastic Novice Chess Tournament 0n 31 January 2009 at Winton
Elementary School in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho.  Forty nine students who had not before participated in a chess
tournament outside their own school competed for trophies in four different playing sections.  The organizers had
planned on five different color coded sections, but combined the Second and Third Grade sections because only 2 players
from the third grade actually came to play.  Trophies were presented to individual winners in each grade level and also
to winning teams in each section.  First Grade and Seventh Thru Twelfth Grade Sections were run as Double Round Robin
due to the small number of participants.

The Individual Winners were:

First Grade
	        1st Place	Lucia Marie Yegge	Upriver Elementary
	        2nd Place	Adam Walz	Peck Elementary
	        3rd Place	Gabrielle Roth	St. George Ele.

Second Grade
	        1st Place	Conner Conigliaro	Winton Elementary
	        2nd Place	Jack Lyon	Winton Elementary
	        3rd Place	Abby Mason	Winton Elementary

Third Grade
	        1st Place	Cameron Olson	Peck Elementary
	        2nd Place	Amber Cooper	Peck Elementary

Fourth Grade
	        1st Place	Travis Swallow	Winton Elementary
	        2nd Place	Bailey Youngman	Winton Elementary
	        3rd Place	Jordan King	Winton Elementary
	        4th Place	Evan Nitske	Winton Elementary
	        5th Place	Riley Glover	Winton Elementary
			
Fifth Grade
	        1st Place 	Shawn Schmidt	Peck Elementary
	        2nd Place	Logan Smith	Dalton Elementary
	        3rd Place	Austynn Maddox	Winton Elementary
	        4th Place	Wayland Burbine	Winton Elementary
	        5th Place 	Jacob Hurten	Dalton Elementary
			
Sixth Grade
	        1st Place	Ryan Gibson	Woodland Ele.
	        2nd Place	Andrew Schmidt	Peck Elementary
	        3rd Place	Brandon Cooper	Peck Elementary
			
Seventh Grade	1st Place	Brett Nisley	Up River 
			
Eighth Grade	1st Place	Brad Herbert	St. Maries
			
Ninth Grade	1st Place	Eloy Valenzuela	Lake City High
Tenth Grade	1st Place	Kairav Joshi	Lake City High



Team Awards

First Grade	1st Place Team	Upriver Elementary
	        2nd Place Team	Peck Elementary
	        3rd Place Team	St. George Ele.
		
Second Grade	1st Place Team	Winton Elementary
		
Third Grade	1st Place Team	Peck Elementary
		
Fourth Thru Sixth Grade	
                1st Place Team	Winton Elementary
	        2nd Place Team	Peck Elementary
	        3rd Place Team	Dalton Elementary
		
Seventh Thru Twelfth Grade
	        1st Place Team	Lake City High
	        2nd Place Team	St. Maries
	        3rd Place Team	Up River