Listing based on qualifying order from the 2013 PanAm InterCollegiate Championship
Webster University
Ray Robson
Georg Meier
Wesley So
Le Quang Liem
Fidel Corrales Jimenez
Anatoly Bykhovksy
Head Coach: GM Susan Polgar
UMBC
Niclas Huschenbeth
Akshayraj Kore
Levan Bregadze
Nazi Paikidze
Sabina Foisor
Head Coach: GM Sam Palatnik
University of Illinois
1 Eric Rosen
2. Xin Luo
3. Michael Auger
4. Akshay Indusekar
Head Coach: GM Yury Shulman
TTU
Yaroslav Zherebukh
Elshan Moradiabadi
Andrey Gorovets
Luis Carlos Torres
Faik Aleskerov
Head Coach: GM Alex Onishchuk
When: April 4-6, 2014
Where: New York City at the NY Athletic Club
Sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton
Chief Arbiter: Michael Hoffpauir
Take ’em down Illinois! 4 guys who just got a coach who are rated an average of 200 points below the competition doing back to back final 4’s. They just got a coach in time to go to NY. Go Illini!
Don’t forget that Illinois doesn’t offer any chess scholarships either! These guys have done it all on their own…talk about an underdog.