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WCSD Middle School Teams ready for 2010 North American Bridge Championships

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WCSD Middle School Teams ready for 2010 North American Bridge Championships

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  1. Washoe County Middle Schools Wind up their 2010Tournament Bridge CompetitionWhat a great year. Five Middle Schools joined the Reno Youth Bridge after school activity program last September to enable interested students to learn how to play the World’s most popular card game . After the first semester, team members were invited to play in the ACBL North American Bridge Championship Tournament at the Grand Sierra in March. The RYB event was won by the partnership of KarlyAgerholm and Sierra Jickling. On the second weekend, Microsoft’s Bill Gates, a dedicated bridge player in his own right, came down to visit with the RYB teams. He encouraged them all to work hard and enjoy a lifetime of playing a great game. In April the schools played a team match which was won by Sparks Middle School. The final year-end Championship Team Match Tournament was won by High Desert Montessori Charter School.

  2. WCSD Middle School Teams ready for 2010 North American Bridge Championships

  3. A visit by Microsoft’s Bill Gates

  4. KarlyAgerholm and Sierra Jickling win NABC RYB Invitational

  5. Reno Youth Bridge team members playing in the NABC Championships

  6. RYB holds first interscholastic Team Game of WCSD Middle Schools • The Reno Unit of the ACBL invited Washoe County School System’s Middle School Students participating in Reno Youth Bridge’s after school activity program to play in an interscholastic team match at their Spring Sectional at the Ramada Hotel on April 14th. Five schools were represented, Billinghurst, Swope, Sparks, and Shaw Middle Schools and High Desert Montessori Charter School. Cassie Phillips and Alex Ford teamed up with Harley DeGuzman and Sonny Knowles of HDMS to win the event.

  7. Team Games are great fun

  8. Reno Youth Bridge 2009-2010 Year-end Duplicate Bridge Championships • For the second year, High Desert Montessori Charter School showed their bidding and defensive skills in the Finals of the Reno Youth Bridge Team Match Year End Championships. In a very tight match HDMS out lasted Sparks Middle School winning by only one Victory Point 25 to 24 in the Round Robin Swiss Teams event at the Reno Bridge Center. Shaw Middle School, the other team in the finals, was third after losing an important match with Sparks in which Sparks made two doubled contracts.

  9. Reno Youth Bridge Finalists

  10. HIGH DESERT WINS 2010 YEAR-END SWISS TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

  11. Sonny Knowles and Tanner Vaughn, HDMS, face Dylan Zabala and Susan Cinfio, Shaw Middle School

  12. Susan Davenport and Kevin Corado, Shaw Middle School, play against Harley DeGuzman and Shane Helton, HDMS

  13. Josh Kimrey & Cassie Phillips, Shaw Middle School, opposeBrittney Hazen & Natalie Barret, Sparks Middle School

  14. Dylan Zabala, Sparks, and Susan Cinfio, Shaw Middle School battle against Sonny Knowles and Tanner Vaughn, HDMS

  15. Reno Youth Bridge, Inc • The Officers and Directors of Reno Youth Bridge, wish to thank all the volunteer teachers from the Reno Unit of the ACBL who gave of their time each week to help our Middle School students learn how to play Contract Bridge. We also want to voice our appreciation to those faculty members who gave RYB such terrific support during this past year. Thank you all very much. We look forward to 2010-2011 school year. • Kathy Lane, Grace Martin, Molly Rakestraw and Bud Brewer.

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