News Release | Community, Success
The UTRGV Chess Team successfully defended its title as national champions of the President's Cup this weekend in New York City defeating six-time champion Webster University, as well as UT Dallas and Harvard University. From left to right are members of the championship team: GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan, GM Vladmir Belous, GMM Kamil Dragun, GM Andrey Stukopin.(UTRGV Photo by David Pike.)
Sunday, April 7, 2019
Alumni, Announcements
By News and Internal Communications
NEW YORK CITY - They've done it again!
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Chess Team successfully has defended its title as national champions of the President's Cup, during the Final Four of Collegiate Chess this weekend at the Marshall Chess Club in New York City.
The Vaqueros again defeated six-time champion Webster University, as well as UT Dallas and Harvard University.
After two days of what was described as tough competition, the team returns tonight to its home base on the UTRGV Brownsville Campus.
ABOUT UTRGV
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) was created by the Texas Legislature in 2013 as the first major public university of the 21st century in Texas. This transformative initiative provided the opportunity to expand educational opportunities in the Rio Grande Valley, including a new School of Medicine, and made it possible for residents of the region to benefit from the Permanent University Fund – a public endowment contributing support to the University of Texas System and other institutions.
UTRGV has campuses and off-campus research and teaching sites throughout the Rio Grande Valley including in Boca Chica Beach, Brownsville (formerly The University of Texas at Brownsville campus), Edinburg (formerly The University of Texas-Pan American campus), Harlingen, McAllen, Port Isabel, Rio Grande City, and South Padre Island. UTRGV, a comprehensive academic institution, enrolled its first class in the fall of 2015, and the School of Medicine welcomed its first class in the summer of 2016.