The US National Collegiate Taekwondo Team departs this weekend
for the Summer World University Games in Belgrade, Serbia.
The US Taekwondo contingent at the games will consist of 33
athletes, coaches and officials.
Representing the United States on the women's sparring team
are finweight Anees Hasnain (UCLA), flyweight Cheryl Krause
(George Mason), bantamweight Aziza Chambers (Dayton), featherweight
Kasey Mallard (Dallas Baptist), lightweight Whitney Daniel
(Rutgers), welterweight Bonny Su (Texas), middleweight Brandi
Powers (Stevenson) and heavyweight Maia Eubanks (Rice). Joining
the women's sparring team as an alternate will be Audrey Su
(Texas).
The men's sparring team is comprised of finweight Johnny
Nguyen (Arizona State), flyweight James Howe (Diablo Valley),
bantamweight Jason Hwang (Cal State-San Bernardino), featherweight
Terrence Jennings (Northern Virginia C.C.), lightweight Stefan
Webb (Metro State), welterweight Kristopher Uy (Diablo Valley),
middleweight Jayson Grant (Quinsigamond C.C.) and heavyweight
TJ Leising (Santa Clara). Joining the men's sparring team
as an alternate will be Dennis Rudasill (Okalahoma State).
The sparring team will be joined by the poomsae team members.
The poomsae team consists of men's individual Johnny Nguyen,
women's individual Carissa Fu (Princeton), mixed pair Alicia
Zhou (Harvard) and Bobby Ren (Lake Washington), men's team
Johnny Nguyen, Anthony Nguyen (Arizona State), and Jason Hwang,
and women's team Alicia Zhou, Karolina Corin (MIT) and Rebecca
Hung (MIT). Jason Hwang and Johnny Nguyen are members of both
the sparring and poomsae team. This is the first year that
Taekwondo Poomsae has been been included in the Summer World
University Games (Universiade) as an official event.
Terrence Jennings is the only team member with prior World
University Games experience, having been a member of the 2005
World University Games team that competed in Izmir, Turkey.
2009 National Collegiate champions on the team include Nguyen,
Howe, Hwang, Jennings, Chambers, Su, Grant and Powers. National
Collegiate champions from previous years include Grant ('08),
Chambers ('07) and Jennings ('05 & '06).
A group of officials will be traveling with the team as well.
Serving as the team leader is NCTA President Rex Hatfield.
Also serving as co-leaders is former NCTA President Yong Chin
Pak. The two head coaches are Yoon Kak Kim and Jae Ho Kim.
Also serving as coaches are Linda Buell, NCTA Secretary General
Dan Chuang and Kyong Hoon Kim. NCTA Referee Co-Chair Victoria
Serbia will be joined by Daniel Rogers to serve as referees
at the Games. Dr. Sherri Lashomb is returning this year as
the team doctor.
Please keep up with the teams' travels with two athlete blogs.
Anees Hasnain and Alicia Zhou will be blogging about their
experiences as part of the US team at the Summer World University
Games at the top of this page.
The official Summer World University Games Website is http://www.universiade-belgrade2009.org/.
date posted: May 28, 2009
Results from the Pan American University Taekwondo Championships
2009 US Collegiate Pan American Team with their medals
The US Pan Am Collegiate Team captured 16 out of a possible
21 gold medals on Friday, June 5 at the University of California,
Berkeley at the Pan American University Taekwondo Championships.
While the event was small, the competition was very spirited
and the US team gave a strong performance.
In women's sparring, finweight Samantha Holland (Iowa State),
flyweight Olivia Ngai (Berkeley), bantamweight Simone DeVito
(Pace), featherweight Aziza Chambers (Dayton), and middleweight
Brandi Powers (Stevenson), earned gold medals. Lightweight
Emma Wu (Harvard), welterweight Bonny Su (U. Texas - Austin),
and heavyweight Amanda Nissen (North Texas) earned silver
medals.
In men's sparring, finweight Johnny Nguyen (Arizona State),
flyweight James Howe II (Diablo Valley), featherweight Terrence
Jennings (Northern Virginia C.C.), lightweight Steven Lin
(Rutgers), welterweight Kristopher Uy (Diablo Valley), middleweight
Jayson Grant (Quinsigamond C.C), and heavyweight Jeremy Evans
(Drake) earned gold medals. Bantamweight Jason Hwang (Cal.
State - San Bernardino) earned a silver medal.
In the poomsae divisions, Carissa Fu (Princeton) and Matt
Dunlap (Blue Mountain C.C.) earned gold medals in the women's
and men's individual, respectively. Alicia Zhou and Bobby
Ren earned a gold medal in mixed pair competition. Jason Hwang,
Anthony Nguyen (Arizona State), Johnny Nguyen earned a gold
in men's team poomsae, and Alicia Zhou, Carissa Fu and Stephanie
Kroll (UCLA) earned a silver in women's team poomsae.
Serving as team leader for the trip was NCTA President Rex
Hatfield. Sang Hee Kim was the team manager. The head coaches
were Jason Poos and Tae Eun Ha. Also serving as coaches were
Scott Phelps, Troy Garr and Christina Park. The US referees
for the event were Jun C. Yoon (tournament referee chair)
and Vincent Lo, and John Ha served as the trainer.
date posted: May 28, 2009
US Pan Am Collegiate Team Prepares for Competition
Tomorrow, Friday, May 29, the US Pan Am Collegiate Team competes
in the 1st
Pan American University Taekwondo Championships at Berkeley,
CA. The team qualified for the Championships by virtue of
their performance at the National Collegiate Taekwondo Championships
at Brown University on March 20-21. This inaugural national
team event is an historic one, being first collegiate event
of its kind in the Pan American region.
Competing in sparring for the women will be finweight Samantha
Holland (Iowa State), flyweight Olivia Ngai (Berkeley), bantamweight
Simone DeVito (Pace), featherweight Aziza Chambers (Dayton),
lightweight Emma Wu (Harvard), welterweight Bonny Su (U. Texas
- Austin), middleweight Brandi Powers (Stevenson), and heavyweight
Amanda Nissen (North Texas).
Competing in sparring for the men will be finweight Johnny
Nguyen (Arizona State), flyweight James Howe II (Diablo Valley),
bantamweight Jason Hwang (Cal. State - San Bernardino), featherweight
Terrence Jennings (Northern Virginia C.C.), lightweight Steven
Lin (Rutgers), welterweight Kristopher Uy (Diablo Valley),
middleweight Jayson Grant (Quinsigamond C.C), and heavyweight
Jeremy Evans (Drake).
Competing on the poomsae team will be are women's individual
Carissa Fu (Princeton), men's individual Matthew Dunlap (Blue
Mountain C.C.), mixed pair Alicia Zhou (Harvard) and Bobby
Ren (Lake Washington), women's team Alicia Zhou, Carissa Fu
and Stephanie Kroll (UCLA), and men's team Jason Hwang, Anthony
Nguyen (Arizona State) and Johnny Nguyen.
Serving as team leader for the trip is NCTA President Rex
Hatfield. Sang Hee Kim will be the team manager. The head
coaches are Jason Poos and Tae Eun Ha. Also serving as coaches
will be Scott Phelps, Troy Garr and Christina Park. The US
referees for the event will be Jun C. Yoon and Vincent Lo,
and John Ha will serve as the trainer.
date posted: May 28, 2009
Summer World University Games Sparring Team Selected, SWUG
Team Finalized
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2009
SWUG Sparring Team. Pictured from left to right are:
Maia Eubanks, TJ Leising, Brandi Powers, Jayson Grant,
Bonny Su, Kristopher Uy, Whitney Daniel, Stefan Webb,
Kasey Mallard, Terrence Jennings, Aziza Chambers,
Jason Hwang, Cheryl Krause, James Howe, Anees Hasnain,
and Johnny Nguyen |
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The 2009 World University Games Sparring Team was selected
on Friday, May 15, during a double-elimination trials at the
Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. The World University
Games will be held July 1-12 in Belgrade, Serbia.
Qualifying for the women's team were finweight Anees Hasnain
(UCLA), flyweight Cheryl Krause (George Mason), bantamweight
Aziza Chambers (Dayton), featherweight Kasey Mallard (Dallas
Baptist), lightweight Whitney Daniel (Rutgers), welterweight
Bonny Su (Texas), middleweight Brandi Powers (Stevenson) and
heavyweight Maia Eubanks (Rice).
The men's team is comprised of finweight Johnny Nguyen (Arizona
State), flyweight James Howe (Diablo Valley), bantamweight
Jason Hwang (Cal State-San Bernardino), featherweight Terrence
Jennings (Northern Virginia C.C.), lightweight Stefan Webb
(Metro State), welterweight Kristopher Uy (Diablo Valley),
middleweight Jayson Grant (Quinsigamond C.C.) and heavyweight
TJ Leising (Santa Clara).
Terrence Jennings is the only team member with prior World
University Games experience, having been a member of the 2005
World University Games team that competed in Izmir, Turkey...2009
National Collegiate champions on the team include Nguyen,
Howe, Hwang, Jennings, Chambers, Su, Grant and Powers...National
Collegiate champions from previous years include Grant ('08),
Chambers ('07) and Jennings ('05 & '06).
The sparring team will be joined by the 2009 US Collegiate
Poomsae Team, which was selected at the US Poomsae Team Trials
on March 21, 2009 in Providence, RI at Brown University. The
poomsae team consists of men's individual Johnny Nguyen, women's
individual Carissa Fu (Princeton), mixed pair Alicia Zhou
(Harvard) and Bobby Ren (Lake Washington), men's team Johnny
Nguyen, Anthony Nguyen (Arizona State), and Jason Hwang, and
women's team Alicia Zhou, Karolina Corin (MIT) and Rebecca
Hung (MIT). Jason Hwang and Johnny Nguyen are members of both
the sparring and poomsae team. This is the first year that
Taekwondo Poomsae has been been included in the Summer World
University Games (Universiade) as an official event.
date posted: May 27, 2009
Additional information regarding 1st
PAUTC
On Wednedsay, May 27, UCMAP
will host Master Hyun Il Kim and the Yong-In University Competition
Team for a sparring seminar. For more information, click
here.
On Thursday, May 28, UCMAP
will host the Pan Am University Championships Open Division.
For more information, click
here.
On Friday, May 29, UCMAP will
host the Pan Am University Championships. For more information,
click here.
On Saturday, May 30, UCMAP
will host the UC Open. For more information, click
here.
date posted:
May 10, 2009
UC Berkeley to Host 1st Pan American University
Taekwondo Championship and 1st Open Division
Pan American University Taekwondo Championship
Dr. Russell Ahn and the UC
Berkeley Martial Arts Program (UCMAP) will be hosting
the 1st Pan American
University Taekwondo Championship on Thursday and Friday,
May 28-29, 2009. The US Pan American University Taekwondo
Team, which was selected at the 2009 NCTA Championships, will
represent the US at this national team event.
UCMAP will also be hosting an 1st
Open Division Pan American University Taekwondo Championship
at the same time as the above event that any black belt
collegiate competitor may participate in. For questions about
this event, please contact UCMAP at tkd2009@ucmap.org
or refer to the their website.
date posted: April 16, 2009
2009 NCTA Championships Held On March 21-22, 2009
Congratulations to all competitors and coaches on a successful
2009 NCTA Championships, hosted by Master Sung Park and the
Brown University Taekwondo Club! Over 370 competitors competed
from over 90 schools. The results
can be found on the NCTA history
page. The team scores and annual awards were as follows:
Team results:
Championship (black belt) Division
1st University of California, Berkeley
2nd Stanford University
3rd University of California, Los Angeles
Novice (color belt) Division
1st Brown University
2nd Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3rd (tie) Iowa State University / Tufts University
/ University of Pennsylvania
Overall (all belts) division
1st Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2nd Brown University
3rd University of California, Berkeley
Outstanding freshman female athlete of the year
Olivia Ngai
University of California, Berkeley
Outstanding freshman male athlete of the year
Kristopher Uy
Diablo Valley College
Female athlete of the year
Emma Wu
Harvard University
Male athlete of the year
Johnny Nguyen
Arizona State University
Coach of the year
Tim Ghormley
Stanford University
Female referee of the year
Susan Lewis
Male referee of the year
Jamie Schulte
date posted:
Mar.24, 2009
2009 US SWUG Team Trials Announced
The 2009 US Summer World University Games (SWUG) Team Trials
will be held on Friday, May 15, 2009 in conjunction with the
USAT Qualifier being held at the Olympic Training Center in
Colorado Springs, CO.
date posted: Mar.16, 2009
All-Time List of NCTA Champions Posted to NCTA History
Page
NCTA President Rex Hatfield has been researching the history
of the NCTA Championships and has compiled this list
of all-time NCTA Champions, which can also be found on
the NCTA history page.
date posted: Mar.16, 2009
Pac-West Taekwondo Conference Concludes Season
The Pac-West Taekwondo Conference
concluded its 2009 season last week. The final standings were:
1) UC Davis -35
2) Stanford - 30
3) UC San Diego - 25
A KCRA video spot on the Pac-West Champions UC Davis can
be found here.
date posted: Mar.16, 2009
USAT/NCTA Dual Membership Announcement
The National Collegiate Taekwondo Association and USA Taekwondo
are pleased to announce joint membership for 2009. The total
cost for the joint membership will be $40. The benefits to
members of both organizations include a modest savings on
membership fees along with the standard perks of belonging
to each organization. The 2009 black belt sparring champions
from the 34th National Collegiate Taekwondo Championships
will also qualify for the 2009 Senior National Championships
to be held June 30-July 5, 2009 in Austin, Texas. The 34th
National Collegiate Taekwondo Championships will be a USAT-sanctioned
event.
Registration for the dual membership as well as the 2009
Collegiate Championships can be found at: https://colnat2009.wufoo.com/forms/athlete-registration/.
For further information about USA Taekwondo, please go to
their website at: http://usa-taekwondo.us.
date posted: Mar. 5, 2009
Clarification Regarding High School Division at 2009
NCTA Championships
There have been several questions regarding the eligibility
of high school students for the 2009 NCTA Championships. There
will be a special black belt sparring division for students
who meet the following criteria:
1) Must be a black belt,
2) Must provide proof of US Citizenship,
3) Must be born between January 1, 1981 and December 31,
1991, and
4) Must provide proof that they have been admitted as a degree
seeking student at an accredited 2 or 4-year college or univeristy
for the Fall 2009 period.
Students who win their weight class in the high school sparring
division will qualify for the 2009 US Summer World University
Games Taekwondo Team Trials.
date posted:
Feb. 24, 2009
Selection Procedures for the 2009 Summer World University
Games
The selection
procedures for the 2009
Summer World University Games Team can be found by clicking
here.
date posted:
Feb. 10, 2009
Proposed Updates to the NCTA Bylaws
A proposed update to the NCTA bylaws is posted here,
in advance of the NCTA General Assembly on March 21, 2009.
The previous bylaws are posted here.
date posted:
Feb. 5, 2009
2009 NCTA Championships Registration Opens
Registration is now open on the 2009 NCTA Championships website:
http://www.colnat2009.com/
date posted:
Feb. 4, 2009
2009 NCTA Championships Official Website Goes Live
The official website of the 2009 NCTA Championships, hosted
by the Brown University Taekwondo Club, is:
All information found there will supersede information found
on this site.
date posted:
Jan. 26, 2009
2009 NCTA Championships Information updated
Additional information regarding the 2009 NCTA Championships
has been posted to the NCTA Championships
page. The official host website should be going live within
the next few days and will be linked from that page.
date posted:
Jan. 22, 2009
Selection Procedures for the 1st Pan American Collegiate
Taekwondo Championships
The 1st Pan American
Collegiate Taekwondo Championships will be held on May
28 and 29, 2009 at the University of California, Berkeley,
in Berkeley, CA. This historical national team event will
feature collegiate national teams from PATU member nations.
The selection
procedures for the 2009 US National Pan American Collegiate
Taekwondo Championships Team can be found by clicking
here.
date posted:
Jan. 22, 2009
2009 NCTA Championships Information updated
Additional information regarding eligibility for the 2009
NCTA Championships has been posted to the NCTA
Championships page.
date posted:
Jan. 19, 2009
2009 NCTA Championships Referee Application Posted
The 2009 Referee Application
for the 2009 NCTA Championships has been posted to the NCTA
Championships page.
date posted:
Dec. 28, 2008
2009 Collegiate Nationals Date Change
There has been a slight change to the 2009 Collegiate Nationals
dates. The new dates are Saturday, March 21, 2009 and Sunday,
March 22, 2009, and are one day later than previously announced.
Please check the NCTA Championships
page for more information as it becomes available.
date posted:
Dec. 7, 2008
WTF Appoints NCTA Officials to WTF Committees
The NCTA would like to congratulate NCTA Vice-President Russell
Ahn on his appointment as the chair of the WTF Collegiate
Committee and NCTA Referee Chair Victoria Serbin on her appointment
to the WTF Poomsae Committee. Their hard work and efforts
on behalf of Taekwondo have again been recognized internationally.
Congratulations to Dr. Ahn and Ms. Serbin!
date posted:
Dec. 7, 2008
2009 Collegiate Nationals Date Announced
The 2009 Collegiate Nationals will be held at Brown University
on Friday, March 20, 2009 and Saturday, March 21, 2009. Please
check the NCTA Championships page
for more information as it becomes available.
date posted:
Oct. 16, 2008
2009 Collegiate Nationals Location Announced
The 2009 Collegiate Nationals will be hosted at Brown University.
The current plan is for it to be hosted in late February or
March 2009. The date will be announced as soon as plans are
finalized.
date posted:
Sept. 24, 2008
US Collegiate National Team Earns 1 Silver, 2 Bronze at the
2008 WUTC
The US Collegiate National Team recently returned from Belgrade,
Serbia where they finished competing at the World University
Taekwondo Championships in Belgrade, Serbia. The championships
took place from July 16 to July 20, 2008. 285 competitors
from 42 countries participated, according to the official
event website, http://www.tas.org.yu/wutc2008/.
Women's team captain Darcy Kimmich (Art Institute of
Pittsburgh; Aurora, Colo.) earned a silver medal in
women's welter. Men's team captain Stephen Lambdin (Texas
Christian University; Colleyville, Tex.) earned a bronze
in men's heavy, and John Duhart II (Menlo College;
Houston, Tex.) earned a bronze medal in men's fin.
The 2008 US Collegiate National Team in front of the athlete
village in Belgrade, Serbia
For a day-by-day summary of the team's performance and additional
photos, please see the tournament
summary.
date posted:
August 7, 2008
