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     Every fall in Nashville, three events are held to determine those players that will compete for the Nashville City Championship in four sections. Those events in 2009 are the Harding Academy tournament, the University School of Nashville tournament and the upcoming Meigs Magnet School tournament. We had approximately 120 students in the first event at Harding, 158 at the USN event and we expect even more at the final qualifiers on Saturday, December 5th, 2009. Here is a list of the students that have previously qualified:

2009 Harding Academy Qualifiers (grades):

Primary Section (K-3): Wei Dai (USN) and Lucas Pao (USN)

 Elementary Section (4-6): Alexander Qin (Grassland) and Alvin Zhang

 Jr. High (7-9): Gregory Bonvisutto (Bonvisutto Home School) and Joey Santoro (Hume-Fogg)

 High School  (10-12): Ravi Konjeti (MLK) and David Fan (Hume-Fogg)

 2009 USN Qualifiers:

Primary: Weston Sharpe (Ezell-Harding) and Colin Smith (St. Paul)

 Elementary: Marco Mirnics (Harding) and Henrik Hahamyan (Shannan Home School)

Jr. High: Reed Boeger (Shannan Home School) and Nicholas Tomlin (Shannan Home School)

High School: Vikas Kumar (Hume-Fogg) and Andrew Yang (Hume-Fogg)