Now for some good news: Detroit Girls Win National Chess Championship

**Lowell** · May-10-16, 10:48 AM

A team from University Prep Science & Math has won the under 14 tournament at Chicago's 13th Annual KCF All-Girls National Championships. Anyone familiar with the game knows this is a great triumph of the mind. Congrats ladies and thanks uplifting the D and sporting the "Detroit vs Everybody".

Picture pulled from Detroit News, full article below:
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/new...ship/83526258/

Winner's school from Google Street view.
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**ABetterDetroit** · May-10-16, 12:54 PM

Congratulations to these girls from Detroit on their National Championship!

A truely awesome accomplishment.

**SDCC** · May-10-16, 03:24 PM

A young lady overcoming adversity

http://www.freep.com/videos/news/loc...5/10/84175260/

Another intelligent young lady - courtesy of Channel 4 - who has won innumerable scholarships. She starts U of M in the fall.

http://www.clickondetroit.com/video/...arship-success

The Annual Brightest and Best list from Channel 7

http://www.wxyz.com/brightestandbest

**jt1** · May-11-16, 11:19 AM

Unsurprisingly this won't get any attention. There's no way to spin it into a negative so the most active posters will stay away.

Congrats to the champs on all their hard work paying off

**SDCC** · May-13-16, 05:07 AM

Che’Rai Laster and Redwan Bin Rouf [[Cass Tech) are two more shinning stars. Laster has accumulated nearly $1 million in scholarships – incredible – and Rouf is heading off to Harvard.

http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/loca...40427985-story

**EastsideAl** · May-13-16, 04:51 PM

Yay!

Love that picture of the champions and their trophies, rocking those excellent shirts. As I understand it, 2 of the main girls involved are twins, including the one who won the crucial final match.

**Jimaz** · May-13-16, 06:37 PM

Kasparov Chess Foundation

**detroitsgwenivere** · May-13-16, 07:10 PM

Last month two gals from University Prep also became the first African American female debate team to win the National Championships:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/detroit-w...211720579.html