Revision as of 17:04, 23 June 2010

This member news page contains notices about SCRABBLE® players and links to articles about them in the press. Other articles may be found in the periodical Bulletins or the club news page.

To have your news item considered for publication here, please send it to Club/Director Committee or Web Committee.

June 2010

Nashua tournament in the news

The New Hampshire Union Leader published an article about the tournament in Nashua on June 19–20, 2010.

February 2010

Matt DeWaelsche (San Antonio, TX)

Matt was featured in an online article and a video clip by San Antonio Express-News. He is being inducted in Texas SCRABBLE Hall of Fame during a tournament in Salado.

December 2009

Jesse Matthews (Kelowna, BC)

Story at Kelowna.com about Jesse's new SCRABBLE club that will meet Thursday evenings, starting January 7, 2010.

November 2009

Tournament at Elmhurst, IL

Story in the Chicago Tribune about the upcoming SCRABBLE tournament at Elmhurst, IL, held November 28-29, 2010.

August 2009

Jesse Matthews (Kelowna, BC)

Story in the Kelowna Capitol News about Jesse's history in SCRABBLE and a current fundraiser where he takes on all comers.

Dave Wiegand (Portland, OR)

Story at OregonLive.com about Dave's second time winning the NSC.

Max Karten (Barrington, RI)

A nice write up about Max Karten, who won Division 4 at NSC in Dayton, is at EastBayRI.com .

June 2009

Juanita (Nita) Washington (Yazoo City, MS)

Juanita Scott Washington, known to her friends as Nita, was a charter member of the Jackson, Mississippi SCRABBLE Club #427. She attended the first meeting in November of 1994 and missed very few meetings in the years since, making the one-hour drive from Yazoo City regularly. For the last several years, she served as Club Director. She moved the club's tournament from Jackson to Yazoo City and attracted a good turnout with her well-known hospitality. Just one among her many loving touches was serving her homemade ice cream to everyone at the tournament each year. She was a fixture at southern tournaments. As a player, you never assumed you had a game won when playing Nita. Everyone in the club has had the experience of Nita's coming from 100 points or more behind to pull out a spectacular win. She was at the SCRABBLE club meetings in May, as usual filling everyone with her smile and enthusiasm for the game. She passed away in June at the age of 62, after losing a very brief battle with cancer. Club #427 will be naming their annual tournament in her honor.

Maddy Kamen (Covina, CA)

Gary Moss reports that Maddy Kamen is the 2009 - 2010 Club #350 Scrabble Champion. Congratulations, Maddy!

Billie Garver (Northport, AL)

Billie is a long-time player, formerly from northeast Arkansas, and now lives in Alabama.

Source: Tuscaloosa News, June 7, 2009.

Jim Geary (Phoenix, AZ): $230,670

Congratulations to Jim Geary on his 3rd place finish in the 2009 World Series of Poker event #11!

Source: Poker News, June 6, 2009.

May 2009

Geoff Thevenot (Austin, TX) in The Austin Chronicle

Congratulations to Geoff Thevonot for winning The Austin Chronicle Adult Spelling Bee. The paper featured the competition in its sports column “Playing Through” by Thomas Hackett:

The Threadgill’s competition started with nearly 200 entrants. Each round cut the field roughly in half, until finally Thevenot was in a showdown with Dave Riddle, a lawyer from Pacific Grove, Calif. The word that tripped up Riddle was “onomatopoeically.” In case you’re wondering, that's spelled, “o-n-o-m-a-t-o-p-o-e-i-c-a-l-l-y.”

How do I know this? Because Geoff Thevenot said so.

Source: Playing Through by Thomas Hackett, The Austin Chronicle, May 29, 2009.