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Around Campus
Chess Team Clinches Regional Championship
Led by junior Cole Frutos ’23, who serves as president of the Jesuit Dallas Chess Club and is the School’s reigning chess champion three years running, the Rangers finished atop the team standing at the 2022 Texas Region III Scholastic Chess Championship. Frutos finished second overall in the individual standings after going undefeated through the first four rounds. Registering a draw with the eventual individual champion, he joined with classmates Warren Smith ’23, Jonathan Adee ’23, and Alex Lizardi ’23 through 10 hours and five rounds of competition en route the regional title.
Jesuit Dallas took its momentum into the 2022 Texas State Scholastic Chess Championships, where the same contingent, along with James McKinney ’23, finished tied for third overall in the team standings; Jesuit’s best-ever finish at the state finals. Warren Smith ’23, James McKinney ’23, Jonathan Adee ’23, Cole Frutos ’23, and Alex Lizardi ’23
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Dell’s Bell
With over 70% of the student body participating in one of Jesuit’s 22 varsity sports, athletics is the largest extracurricular activity on campus, and the athletic performance program provides a necessary support mechanism for nearly all of Jesuit’s athletic teams. Beginning in 2022, Director of Athletic Performance, Giuliano Sanchez, started a new tradition that has further inspired our young men to maximize their abilities and efforts, and the initiative has quickly caught on among the student body.
“Only a small number of student-athletes will ever have the chance to ring Dell’s Bell,” Sanchez explained. “What it means to ring the bell is that someone has gone above-andbeyond day-after-day culminating with a particularly great performance in the weight room. His attitude, determination, and leadership has motivated his teammates, and he has become an emblem of what our work in the Dell Performance Center is all about.”
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