date
posted: July 2, 2009
News:
US Team Departs for World University Games
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. 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
| |
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 |
|
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
