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Burrall Hands Off Tournaments Post To Shen

Karoline Burrall (right) has exchanged her role as AGA Tournament Coordinator for work as a Congress correspondent for the AGA E-Journal. "We owe Karoline a huge debt for the tireless work she put in and the extremely professional and skilled job she did in the tournament coordinator position," said AGA President Andy Okun.

"We couldn’t have gotten by without her tremendous effort." Longtime Southern California player Cherry Shen (left) has taken on the Tournament Coordinator title and the bulk of the job, including managing foreign representative selection. Like Burrall, Shen comes from a family of go players including father Gary Shen, a frequent Congress volunteer and So Cal regular. "Cherry has long shown willingness to help out in many go events and I'm grateful to her for volunteering again," said Okun. Among other things, Shen won an AGF college scholarship in 2010, represented the US at the World Mind Games in Lille, volunteered for the American Collegiate Go Association, taught go in an elementary school and served as translator for "The Surrounding Game" team. She lives and works in New York, where her day job is in finance, Okun said.