DC Scrabble Club

National SCRABBLE® Association (NSA) Club 171 Members
Aaron McPhee
Peak Rating: 1102
Alyssa Faria
Peak Rating: 1644, ISC: cheezchick. Appreciates fruit scents and pakora. As of July 4, 2006, the highest-rated active player living in DC.

Austin Nichols
Peak Rating: 1003
Avis Casely
Peak Rating: 657

Barry Jones
Peak Rating: 1163. Dances like Fred Astaire. Cha-cha-cha!
Brian Bailey
Peak Rating: 1343, ISC: ataraxy. Works in the field of biomedical intellectual property, learned to play competitively in Montana. Major travel geek.

Brian Galebach
Peak Rating: 1023, ISC: MrBrain. An electrical engineer, computer programmer and website developer. In his spare time he enjoys playing piano, singing and curling.
Bev Roberts
Peak Rating: 599

Bob Linn (co-director)
Peak Rating: 1961, ISC: rlinn. Financial advisor and money manager at Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc. for 38 years. 31st in World's Scrabble tourney, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2003. Enjoys teaching Scrabble. Come and ask for "Scrabble School."
Cara Bowen-Goldberg
Peak Rating: 1102

Carole Denton
Peak Rating: 1583
Doug Hoylman
Peak Rating: 1645. 6-time winner of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament.

Gail Linn
Peak Rating: 1316. An audiologist who lives in Potomac, MD
Grant Guenzel
Peak Rating: 1102

Harvey Solomon James Flomo
Peak Rating: 1592

Jennifer Cohen
Peak Rating: 1232. Works as a content editor and creative director for a website.
Jim Cassidy
Peak Rating: 1804, ISC: squire, jmcassidy. A lawyer, has lived in Washington since 1945 and has been playing in Club 171 since 1988. He also plays in southern CA, where he has a home.

Jim Crouch Joel Unowsky
Peak Rating: 1066

Joel Yudson K.C. Frodyma
Peak Rating: 865, ISC: majotaur.

Lee Pearson
Peak Rating: 647
Lynda Unowsky
Peak Rating: 500

Lorraine Cirina
Peak Rating: 837. Brooklyn transplant thriving on Connecticut Ave with its generous watering of noise. Club regular since 1998, now serving as treasurer.
Lowell Starr
Peak Rating: 1039

Marcia Bowen
Peak Rating: 1458, Retired restaurant owner from Kensington, Maryland.
Marcia Richards
Peak Rating: 1790

Nandini Dickens
Peak Rating: 878
Pat Brown
Peak Rating: 1503. An investigative criminal profiler.

Paula McMartin Ralph Moore
Peak Rating: 1429. Retired U.S. Foreign Service officer, lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Randy Taylor
A former real estate agent who lives in Washington, DC. Possibly the only club member to have traveled to Antarctica. Purportely a part-time emperor of a remote galaxy.
Sarel Kromer
Peak Rating: 1372. a retired lawyer who lives in Chevy Chase. Recently traveled to Rwanda.

Shah Ali
Peak Rating: 1615
Stefan Fatsis
Peak Rating: 1733, Author of the bestselling book on the contemporary Scrabble condition, Word Freak.

Tat Reistrup
Peak Rating: 974
Ted Gest (co-director)
Peak Rating: 1498, ISC: tgest. Club co-director, runs the national Criminal Justice Journalists & a coalition of journalism groups. Notable Scrabble achievement: bingos on 4 consecutive plays.

Teresa Schaeffer
Peak Rating: 1312, ISC: tereoca. Works as a chess coach/instructor, club member since 1992, best play - 9 letter word - triple/triple at the Nationals.
Tom and Thomas Draper
Thomas loves climbing, T-ball & word games. Scrabbles ~2 hours daily w/ 2k+ wins vs. Maven. Beaten every member of his extended family. The only 5yo ever to wish for a Scrabble B-day cake? Tom has been a Mathematician at the DoD for 8+ years. Enjoys strategy games, computers & table tennis.

Vince Castellano
Peak Rating: 1807. A software engineer from Fairfax, VA.
Zobo the Chimp
Manager of a local waterpark. Earned his pilots license in 2004. Enjoys scuba diving, karaoke and monster truck rallies.