National Champions from District 8, American Contract Bridge League

 Open North American Championships  (no masterpoint limits)

David Carter, St. Louis

1st:  Men's Teams (1950)
    Life Master Pairs (1954)
    Men's Pairs (1957)

2nd:  Spingold Teams (1953, 54 & 62)
    Open Pairs (1946, 53 & 54)
    Men's Pairs (1960)

Winner of the 1954 McKenney Trophy

Inventor of Two-Way Stayman and Texas Transfer conventions

Larry Kolker (photo),
Jerry & Carolyn Levitt

Garrett Nash

George deRuntz, St. Louis MO

1st:  Vanderbilt Teams (1962)

 

Lynne Feldman (left), Champaign IL

1st:  Whitehead Women's Pairs (2008)
   Master Mixed Teams (1979)
   Women's Swiss Teams (1986)
   Women's Bd-a-Match Teams (1988)

2nd:  Women's KO Teams (1985)
   Women's Bd-a-Match Teams (1987 & 94)

Chris Benson (right), LeRoy IL

   1st: Whitehead Women's Pairs (2008)

   Attained rank of Grand Life Master in 2009.

Bob Carteaux, Fort Wayne IN

1st:  Senior KO Teams (1997)

Attained rank of Grand Life Master in 2006.

Tom Kniest, St. Louis &
Karen Walker,
Champaign IL

1st:  Rockwell Mixed Pairs (2006)
   Rockwell Mixed Pairs (2009)

2nd:  Life Master Pairs (1986)
  Mixed Board-a-Match Teams (1995)
  North American Open Pairs (1999)

Kniest was 2nd in the Silver Ribbon Senior Pairs (2010) and attained the rank of Grand Life Master in 2011.

Roger Lord &
Alan Popkin,
St. Louis MO

1st:  Silver Ribbon Senior Pairs (2002)

 Other NABC Championships  (events with restricted masterpoint limits)

Will Engel, Freeport IL &
Jim Melville,
Springfield IL

1st:  Mini-Spingold 0-5000 Teams (2006)

2nd:  0-5000 Life Master Pairs (2005)

Chris Patrias, St. Louis

1st:  National Senior/Advanced Senior Master Pairs (1972)

 

Thomas O'Reilly-Pol
Sandy Bigg
Debbie Romero
Jonathan Goldberg,
St. Louis

 1st:  Flight C Grand National Teams (2008)

 

 

 College & Junior Championships

Justin Graver, Dennis Carney, Brian Blackmore & Michael Steigmann (University of Illinois, Champaign)

1st:  North American College Team Championship (1988)

Steigmann also won the 1994 college championship playing for Harvard University.

Jason Feldman, Champaign IL

1st:  World Junior Team Championships (2006)

 



 Bob Ewen & Darrell Penrod, University of Illinois (Champaign)

    1st:  North American College Pairs (1963)