I am so pleased to tell everyone that the LSHS Chess Team finished Seventh in the state in the NC State Chess Championship held this weekend in Charlotte!
Converging upon the Blake Hotel for this 38th annual tournament, over 500 of the best student chess players from dozens of schools competed, including one grandmaster-level student from the NC School of Science and Math.
Our team is comprised of Nico Reyes (11th grade), Daniel Owens (12th grade), Karan Deocharran (10th grade), Charles Milam (10th grade), and Juan Arcia (9th grade). The team has met at least twice a week for the entire year and played in other tournaments to prepare for this event. Our players competed in the upper, open, championship division against very stiff competition, but fought some extremely close matches all the way down to the end. While playing against some of the largest schools in the state, and some exclusive private schools, our players showed class and determination all the way; we even had one player who began walking from home at 4:30 am Saturday morning to meet the bus at school for the departure.
With points for this event, Lexington Senior High School still holds onto its first-place lead in the NCASA Scholastic Cup standings, the award for the "Top High School in the State."
Please congratulate these students! They will be proudly wearing their light blue T-shirts bought for them at the event as mementos. Coach Plaster also awarded Nico Reyes a portable tournament chess set as an award for winning the school-wide chess tournament last week.
We left Charlotte Sunday night with the motivation to continue learning and growing our team to become better and better.
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