State results from this year’s IHSA state chess tournament, which was held on-line with a virtual tournament played at school, on our laptops, and supervised by coaches. Stillman Valley competed against the following teams over the two-day tournament: 1 Argo-Summit – losing 20 to 48 2 Plainfield East –  losing 12 to 56 3 Hartsford

Jan 16,2021 the Stillman Valley Cardinal chess team participated in the Northern Illinois Conference Chess Tournament. The team was entered in the five board section of the tournament and won all three matches They won the five board section of the conference. Sterling High won the 8 board section of the tournament Stillman played McHenry defeating

January 9, 2021 The Stillman Valley chess team participated in the online lichess tournament hosted by Naperville North H.S. The Cardinals had a long day of  competing against a field of very strong teams and several ranked in the top 10 in the state. The tournament was won by Evanston H.S. with a 4- 0 record.

On Saturday, Dec 5, the Stillman Valley Chess Team participated in the 34 team Bolingbrook Chess Tournament held virtually using the lichess.org program. Stillman faced the following teams in a four round format: Manteno    winning 42 to 23 Huntley      losing 43 to 25 Park Ridge Maine South      winning 43.5 to 24.5 Sterling

On Tuesday, Dec 1, the Stillman Valley chess team had a match vs Byron Winning the match 50 to 0 with all five varsity boards winning their matches John Michigan on bd 1 Sawyer Winstead bd 2 Nate Youman bd 3 Ryan McNeilly bd  4 Hunter Pederson  bd 5 Exhibition matches played Casey Madeen won

Congratulations to all six of our IHSA winter sports and activities on achieving a team GPA of 3.0 or higher and earning the IHSA Team Academic Award! Girls’ Basketball:  3.614 Scholastic Team:  3.613 Chess:  3.25 Competitive Cheer:  3.215 Boys’ Basketball:  3.174 Wrestling:  3.172