Alexander Onischuk, born on September 3, 1975, in Sevastopol, Ukraine, is a Ukrainian-American chess grandmaster and coach. He earned the Grandmaster title in 1994 and won the Ukrainian Championship in 2000. After immigrating to the United States in 2001, Onischuk secured the U.S. Championship title in 2006 and finished as runner-up in 2007, 2008, and 2017. He represented the U.S. in six Chess Olympiads, contributing to bronze medal finishes in 2006 and 2008, and achieved a peak FIDE rating of 2701 in July 2010. In 2012, he became the head coach at Texas Tech University, leading the chess team to multiple Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship victories. Onischuk was inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame in 2018.
Full-ride College Chess Scholarships
Full-ride scholarships cover four years of college expenses, including tuition, fees, books, housing, and meals. Several U.S. universities offer full-ride college chess scholarships. While players with FIDE titles are most likely to be awarded full-ride college chess scholarships, players with ratings as low as 2300 US Chess have been awarded these scholarships. More 🡢