FUTURE TOURNAMENTS AND TRIPS
VAUX
MIGHTY BISHOPS

  • Pennsylvania State Championship - Bloomsburg, PA: March 1998
  • National Junior High Championship - Phoenix, Arizona: April 1998
  • U.S. Open Championship - Kona, Hawaii: August 1998
  • Goodwill Trip to South Africa - Summer 1999

(Integrated chess team from Philadelphia)





VAUX CHESS TEAM HISTORY

PRESENT TEAM HISTORY


1997 TO PRESENT:

Greater New York Jr. High Championship, January - 1997
a) 1st place individual and 4th place team trophies.

U. S. Amateur Team Championship, Parsippany, NJ, Feb.-1997
a) Division Champions
b) Largest individual upset in tournament history
c) Defeated chess team from Bucknell University

PA State Championship, Bloomsburg University, March - 1997
a) Second place team trophy
b) Top seventh grade and second best girl trophies

Super National Championship, Knoxville, Tennessee, April - 1997
a) First place team trophy
b) Third & sixth place individual trophies, and coach's award

U.S. Open Championship, Orlando Florida, August - 1997
a) K-12 Open Champions (returned home with 11 trophies)
b) Top scholastic player in sixth, seventh and eighth grade

K-12 Grade Championship, Parsippany, NJ, Nov - 1997
a) Eighth grade class champion
b) Fifth place team trophy

Greater New York Jr. High Championship, January - 1998
a) Third place team trophy
b) Top unrated player and class champion

THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA
ROBERTS VAUX MIDDLE SCHOOL
24TH AND MASTER STREETS
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA 19121-4798
TELEPHONE (215) 684-5068,5429
FAX: (215) 684-5430

Principal: Mr. Harold B. Adams, (215) 684-5068

Coach: Mr. Salome Thomas-El, (215) 684-5138