Scholarship Winners
The UT Dallas Chess Program awards several tournament-based scholarships annually. Most of these awards go to the winners of local and state events. Some scholarships are reserved for national and international competitions.
2013
- Akshat Chandra - Super Nationals V - National Junior High School Championship
- David Peng - Super Nationals V - National Elementary Championship
- Jarod Pamatmat - Texas Scholastic Chess Championships
2012
- Kacper Drozdowski - European Youth Championship, Boys Under 16
- Marja Tantsiura - European Youth Championship, Girls Under 16
- Atulya Shetty - Denker Tournament of State High School Champions
- Darwin Yang - Texas Scholastic Chess Championships
2011
- Jeffrey Xiong - Scholastic Division of the Pan-American Intercollegiate Championships
- Matthew Dahl - National K-12, 12th Grade Section
- Alexandr Bortnik - European Youth Championship, Boys Under 16
- Maria Severina - European Youth Championship, Girls Under 16
- Michael Vilenchuk - Denker Tournament of State High School Champions
- Alexandra Botez - Kasparov National All-Girls Championship, Under-18
- Mahesh Ramgopal - Dallas Area Chess-in-the-Schools Championship
- Jason Trammell - DISD High School Championship
2010
- Bob Shao - Texas Scholastic Chess Championships
- Eduardo Infante - DISD High School Championship
- Stephen Raveneau - DISD High School Championship
- Ivan Bukavshin - European Youth Championship, Boys Under-16
- Mariam Danelia - European Youth Championship, Girls Under-16
- Stephen Zierk - Denker Tournament of State High School Champions
- Rochelle Ballantyne - Kasparov National All-Girls Championship, Under-18
- Fernando Solis - Dallas Area Chess-in-the-Schools Championship
- Bob Shao - Texas Scholastic Chess Championships
- Eduardo Infante - DISD High School Championship
- Stephen Raveneau - DISD High School Championship
2009
- Megan Lee - Kasparov National All-Girls Championship, Under-18
- Matthew Michaelides - Texas K-12 Grade Championships and Collegiate Championship
- Katarzyna Adamowicz - European Youth Championship, Girls Under-16
- Gil Popilski - European Youth Championship, Boys Under-16
- Robert Hess - Super Nationals IV - National High School Championship
- Ryan Moon - Super Nationals IV - National Junior High School Championship
- Daniel Gurevich - Super Nationals IV - National Elementary Championship
- Adarsh Jayakumar - DISD High School Championship
- William Ong - Texas Scholastic Chess Championships
- Juaquin Villegas - Dallas Area Chess-in-the-Schools Championship
2008
- Eduardo Ramos - DISD High School Championship
- Stanley Yang - Texas Scholastic Chess Championship
- Kristin Raveneau - Dallas Area Chess-in-the-Schools Championship
- Medina Parrilla - Kasparov National All-Girls Championship, Under-18
- Daniel Yeager - Denker Tournament of State High School Champions
- Scott Low - Denker Tournament of State High School Champions
- Nazi Paikidze - European Youth Championship, Girls Under-16
- Illya Nyzhnyk - European Youth Championship, Boys Under-16
- Courtney Jamison - Texas Girls Scholastic Championships
- Karthik Ramachanandran - Texas K-12 Grade Championships and Collegiate Championship
- Mitchell Powell - Scholastic Division of the Pan-American Intercollegiate Championships
2007
- Kubra Ozturk - European Youth Championship, Girls Under-16
- Vugar Rasulov - European Youth Championship, Boys Under-16
- Jose Montelongo - DISD High School Championship
- Robert Sanchez - DISD High School Championship
- Warren Harper - Texas Scholastic Chess Championship
- Freddy Baron - Dallas Area Chess-in-the-Schools Championship
- Arthur Safin - Texas K-12 Grade Championships and Collegiate Championship
2006
- Tyler Hughes - Denker Tournament of State High School Champions
- Eric Dong - Texas Scholastic Chess Championships
- Jose Zuniga - DISD High School Championship
- Rheanna English - Texas Girls Scholastic Championships
- Melinda Shokler - Texas Girls Scholastic Championships
- Francisco Guadalupe II - Texas K-12 Grade Championships and Collegiate Championship
- Mark Garcia - Dallas Area Chess-in-the-Schools Championship
2005
- Xiao Cheng - Super Nationals III - National High School Championship
- Joel Banawa - Super Nationals III - National Junior High School Championship
- Ray Robson - Super Nationals III - National Elementary Championship
- Eduardo Aranda - Dallas Area Chess-in-the-Schools 6th Grade Championship
- Xavier Gracia - DISD High School Championship
- Peter Yeh - Texas High School Chess Championships
- Alisa Melekhina - Polgar National Invitational Tournament for Girls
- Abby Marshall - Polgar National Invitational Tournament for Girls
- Anya Corke - Polgar National Invitational Tournament for Girls
- Trevor H. Jackson - Denker Tournament of State High School Champions
- Anjali Datta - Texas Girls Scholastic Championships
- Michael Slepoy - Texas K-12 Grade Championship and Collegiate Championship
2004
- Xi Zhang - Texas High School Chess Championships
- Daniel Rensch - National High School Championship
- David Justice - National High School Championship
- Mackenzie Molner - Denker Tournament of State High School Champions
- Pieta Garrett - Denker Tournament of State High School Champions
- Amita Vempati - Texas Girls Scholastic Championships
- Paul Haney - Texas K-12 Grade Championships and Collegiate Championship
- Fergal McArdle - DISD High School Championship
- Zaire Bradley - Dallas Area Chess-in-the-Schools 6th Grade Championships
- Rose Eynullayeva - Polgar National Invitational Tournament for Girls
2003
- Griffin Taylor - Dallas Area Chess-in-the-Schools 6th Grade Championships
- Salvijus Bercys - U.S. Junior Open
- Thomas J. Bartell - U.S. Junior Open
- William Aramil - Denker Tournament of State High School Champions
- Stephanie Ballom - Texas Girls Scholastic Championships
- Curtis Brooks - Texas K-12 Grade Championships and Collegiate Championship
2002
- John Sneed - Texas High School Chess Championships
- Anthony Haskins - Dallas Area Chess-in-the-Schools 6th Grade Championships
- Alexander Chua - U.S. Junior Open
- A. J. Steigman - U.S. Junior Open
- Joshua Friedel - Denker Tournament of State High School Champions
- Buo Zhang - Texas Girls Scholastic Championships
- Ryan Millisits - Scholastic Division of the Pan-American Intercollegiate Championships
- Christopher Toolin - Scholastic Division of the Pan-American Intercollegiate Championships
2001
- Andres Suarez - Steven Grubbs Memorial Scholarship - Texas Junior Open
- Alex Echeverry - Texas High School Chess Championships
- Bo Githoro - Texas High School Chess Championships
- Chris Glasser - Texas High School Chess Championships
- Noah Pang - National Elementary Championship
- John Bartholomew - National Junior High Championship
- Noah Siegel - National High School Championship
- Patrick Ward - Dallas Area Chess-in-the-Schools 6th Grade Championships
- Samson Benen - Super Nationals II - National High School Championship
- Ryan Milisits - Scholastic Division of the Pan-American Intercollegiate Championships
- Christopher Toolin - Scholastic Division of the Pan-American Intercollegiate Championships
- Marc Andre Fuhrmann - Texas K-12 Grade Championships and Collegiate Championship
- Anh Tuan Nguyen - Texas K-12 Grade Championships and Collegiate Championship
2000
- Lee Gardner - Scholastic Division of the Pan-American Intercollegiate Championships
- Morgan Feeney - Scholastic Division of the Pan-American Intercollegiate Championships
- Hikaru Nakamura - National Elementary K-6 Scholarship
- Matt Willis - Texas K-12 Grade Championships and Collegiate Championship
- Matthew Hoesktra - Denker Tournament of State High School Champions
- Nat Koons - Denker Tournament of State High School Champions
- John Cole - Denker Tournament of State High School Champions
- Joshua Zillmer - Denker Tournament of State High School Champions
- Yelena Gorlin - Denker Tournament of State High School Champions
- Christopher Martin - Dallas Area Chess-in-the-Schools 6th Grade Championships
1999
- Ali Morshedi - Texas High School Chess Championships
- Clemente Rendon - Texas High School Chess Championships
- Eric Wiggins - Texas Grade Championships
- Enrique Rios - Texas Grade Championships
- Stephen Glinert - Scholastic Division of the Pan-American Intercollegiate Championships
- Andrei Zaremba - Denker Tournament of State High School Champions
- Karen Birkedahl - Denker Tournament of State High School Champions
- Aaron Weinberg - Dallas Area Chess-in-the-Schools 6th Grade Championships
1998
- Harutyun Akopyan - Denker Tournament of State High School Champions
- David John - Texas High School Chess Championships
- Justin Shih - Texas High School Chess Championships
- Jonathan Walsh - Scholastic Division of the Pan-American Intercollegiate Championships
- Andrei Dokouchaev - Scholastic Division of the Pan-American Intercollegiate Championships
- Kristoffer Littlejohn - Scholastic Division of the Pan-American Intercollegiate Championships
- Andrew Whatley - Scholastic Division of the Pan-American Intercollegiate Championships
- Jonathan Cearley - Texas Grade Championships
- Elaine Weatherall - Dallas Area Chess-in-the-Schools 6th Grade Championships
- Vinay Bhat - Denker Tournament of State High School Champions


