The Crystal Lake Middle School Chess Team hammered out 15.5 team wins out of a possible 16 (nearly posting a perfect 16/16 tournament) to finish First Place at Polk County's season opening chess competition. This included going 14 wins, a...
We have 16 players this year: two 8th graders, seven 7th graders and seven 6th graders. Last year with only 10 players we snagged 3rd place among 20 teams. This year, the turn out and team strength is way ahead of last years pace. But, we would n...
The following will be a blog recording some of my fondest memories from over 10 years of coaching middle and high school students chess. I'll keep adding as i keep remembering lol. Main picture: David C. (left) defended his H.S. county title winn...
Its about time I report how we did this year. Out of 25 team CLMS finished second which could have only been accomplished by a late season serge taking 1st in December and 2nd in January allowing us to leap frog two other strong teams into second....
The Polk Scholastic Chess season has started... last Oct.25th with the second tournament looming this Saturday Nov 15th. The first tournament CLMS scored 14 out of 16 team points for a probable 2nd place out of 25 teams. We will have our hands ful...
I have the honor and privilage at helping patients, many of which are WWII war veterens. They would often share stories about what they went through during their time in service. One particular gentleman said he survived the landing at Omaha beach...
I was just recently hired at a sub acute hospital as a Physical Therapist Assistant. :D They actually found me (my resume) and emailed me lol
Saturday March 15: Today my students competed in the 5th and last Polk Scholastic Chess Tournament for the season for individual honors. There were 10 sections in the middle school division each consisting of 16 players. In the top section (Top 16...
For the 5th time in 6 years Crystal Lake has won the County Chess Championship. A lot of credit has to go to these 25 student players who battled through 4 monthly team tournaments, stiff competition (25 other schools including 10 academy schools ...
I studied long and hard and it all paid off... I PASSED MY STATE BOARD EXAM for physical therapy! Polk Scholastic Chess Championship: My middle school team of 25 students captured the County Chess Championship (based on 4 monthly team tournam...
