Indiana State Reserve Champions

Winners of the Reserve section of the Indiana State Championship since 1974.

1974 First Reserve section

53 Years listed

2026 Most recent

About the Reserve

A Reserve section was first held in the State Championship in 1974, as far as we can tell. We have not been able to recover the result for 1975.

Champions

53 years

Indiana State Reserve Championship winners
Year	Site	Reserve Champion	Residence	Co-Champion, if any
1974	Indianapolis	Jeff Alson
1975	West Lafayette	(no Reserve section)
1976	Anderson	David Harper
1977	Indianapolis *	Robert Lee
1978	Indianapolis	Jay Carr	Beech Grove
1979	South Bend	Ben Harris	Indianapolis
1980	Indianapolis	Mark Lee
1981	Wabash	Sylvester Turner	South Bend
1982	Wabash *	Ron Powell		Jeff Burton
1983	Indianapolis *	David Cohron
1984	Gary	Fred Johnson
1985	Kokomo	Ron Powell
1986	Fort Wayne *	Peter Kuhr	South Bend
1987	Indianapolis *	Mike Herron (u. 1900)	Indianapolis	Richard Snyder, W.C. Coleman (u. 1500)
1989 (Jan.)	Fort Wayne	Steve Ellis	Anderson
1990 (Jan.)	Indianapolis	Greg Marcum	Anderson
1990 (Sept.)	Fort Wayne	Joseph Mikuta	Griffith
1991	Indianapolis	Upma Sharma	Carmel	Ed Stackpole, Bloomington
1992	Indianapolis	Jim H. Dean	Indianapolis
1993	Indianapolis	Christopher Johnson	Terre Haute
1994	Indianapolis	Kurt Bridgham	Crawfordsville
1995	Bloomington	Solomon Kennedy	Indianapolis
1996	Indianapolis	Mark Frank	Indianapolis
1997	Indianapolis	Edwin Harris
1998	South Bend	Kevin Fyr	Granger
1999	Logansport *	Curtis T. Anderson	Terre Haute
2000	Kokomo *	Josh Lewis	Elkhart
2001	Indianapolis	Jonathan Lewis	LaPorte
2002	Indianapolis	Jason Crismore	Indianapolis
2003	Indianapolis	John Wortinger	Frankfort
2004	Indianapolis	Beniamin Zakhary
2005	Kokomo	Daniel Ryker	Fort Wayne	Josh Smith
2006	Indianapolis	Brian Benson	Indianapolis
2007	Logansport	Daniel Gater	Fort Wayne
2008	Logansport	Hans Herr	Hammond
2009	Indianapolis	John Wortinger	Frankfort	Mathew Leach, Mishawaka
2010	Wabash	Mathew Leach	Granger
2011	Indianapolis	Daymion Phillips	Indianapolis	Roger Blaine, Mishawaka
2012	Indianapolis *	John Roush	Kokomo
2013	Indianapolis	Jerry Christner	Indianapolis
2014	Terre Haute	Jason Wycoff		Matthew Kubisch
2015	Indianapolis	Evan Spiegel
2016	Indianapolis	Joseph Zandstra	Hebron
2017	Indianapolis	Stephen Sims
2018	Indianapolis	Grant Mu	Indianapolis	Gary J. Fox, Logansport
2019	Indianapolis	Akarsu Celik
2020	Indianapolis	Samuel Ludlow
2021	Indianapolis	Daniel Mitchell		Angelo V. Fleming, Fort Wayne
2022	Indianapolis	Harvey Hanke	Fort Wayne
2023	Noblesville	Ben Foley	Bloomington
2024	Indianapolis	Matt Jacyno	Fort Wayne
2025	Indianapolis	Avichal Jadeja	Terre Haute
2026	Indianapolis	Thomas Burden	Indianapolis

* In most years, the Reserve was for players rated under 1800, but in 1977 the limit was 1400, in 1986 it was 1600, in 1999 and 2000 it was 1700, and in several cases it appears to have been 1900. In 1987 there was a “Premier” for under 1900 and a “Reserve” for under 1500.