2016 Senior USBC News
The Bitterman team has withdrawn at the last minute from the 2016 Senior USBC. Chris Patrias, the Senior USBC DIC has ruled that the team should be treated as forfeiting their Round of 16 match against Koneru, NPC, so the Koneru team has earned a berth to join the two teams with byes (Hamman, NPC & Morse, NPC) in the Round of 8. There will now be 5 contested matches in the Round of 16, startimg at 10:00 am Denver time on Friday, June 17th.
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Congratulations!
PALMER WINS WOMEN'S USBC
The Palmer team (Beth Palmer - Sylvia Shi, Lynn Deas - Juanita Chambers, and Janice Seamon-Molson, Tobi Sokolow) won the 2016 Women's USBC in convincing fashion, challenged only in the Quarterfinals, where they defeated Weingold by 6 IMPs over 60 boards. Their Semi-Final opponent, Wittes, withdrew after 105 boards, down 132 IMPs. In the Finals, against the top-seeded Baker team, they took the lead in the second segment and never looked back. The final margin was 34. By winning the Women's USBC, the Palmer team earned the right to represent the US in the 2016 World Bridge Games in Wroclaw, Poland in September. GOOD LUCK!
Tobi Sokolow, Beth Palmer, Sylvia Shi, Lynn Deas, Janice Seamon-Molson & Juanita Chambers
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2016 Junior Teams Approved
The USBF Board has approved five teams for the 2016 World Youth Teams:
USA1 for the Patiño (Under 26) Cup
In the order they are shown in this picture:
Zach Brescoll
Zach Grossack
Adam Grossack
Kevin Rosenberg
Adam Kaplan
Ben Kristensen
NPC: Roger Lee
USA2 for the Patiño (Under 26) Cup
In the order they are shown in the picture:
Christian Jolly
Julie Arbit
Greg Herman
Anam Tebha
Jordan Kaye
Oren Kriegel
NPC: Jim Munday
Damiani Cup Team
In the order they are shown in the pictures:
Nolan Chang
Hakan Berk
Isaac Stephani
David Soukup
Cole Spencer
NPC: David Caprera
Rona Cup Team
In the order they are shown in the picture:
Allison Hunt
Amber Lin
Isha Thapa
Kathleen Loeb
Asya Ladyzhensky Marriott
Becca Wernis
NPC: Kent Mignocchi
Under 16 Team
We didn't have a complete team picture. The two players at the top left of the group picture (Kevin Huang & Brent Xiao) are too old for this event. Players on the Under-16 team, in the order they are shown in the pictures:
Rory Xiao
Michael Hu
Arthur Zhou
Suzanne Campbell
Cooper Smith
Kunal Vohra
NPC: Brady Richter
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2016 U16 Team
The USBF Board has approved the Under 16 ("Kids") team for the 2016 World Youth Teams Championship. All 6 plaeyrs on the U16 team played in the U21 division at the 2015 Junior USBC, 4 of them on the Hu team and the other 2 on the Koppel and Zhan teams. They are:
Suzanne Campbell - Rory Xiao
Michael Hu - Arthur Zhou
Cooper Smith - Kunal Vohra
Because the 6 players didn't compete on one team in Atlanta and we didn't know which 6 players would be selected for the Under 16 team, we don't have a team photo, but we do have a photo of the Hu team, which includes the two players who are too old to compete in the U16 event, and individual snapshots of Cooper Smith& Kunal Vohra :
Hu Team - Back row, left to right, Kevin Huang-Brent Xiao (too old for U16), Michael Hu, Suzanne Campbell. Front row: left, Rory Xiao; right, Arthur Zhou
| Cooper Smith |
 Kunal Vohra |
Good Luck to the USBF's first-ever Under 16 team in Salsomaggiore this summer!
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