Announcements
2026 NCTA National Collegiate and High School Championships to be held in Chapel Hill, NC on April 24-26
2 months
NCTA is pleased to announce that the 2026 National Collegiate and High School Taekwondo Championships will be held on Friday, April 24 through Sunday, April 26 at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at Woollen Gymnasium, hosted by the Carolina Taekwondo Club. This event is planned to be a 10.0 USATKD sanctioned event for the collegiate championship divisions, with those collegiate championship divisions also serving as a qualifier for the USATKD National Championships analogous to the USATKD State Championships.
The tournament will begin with all collegiate and high school poomsae, breaking and demo team competition on Friday, all collegiate and high school championship individual sparring on Saturday, and the 3 v. 3 format NCTA Cup event on Sunday. As in past years, collegiate taekwondo clubs will vie for the chance to become national champions in the Overall (Brown & UT Austin defending champions), Black Belt (MIT & UC Davis defending champions) and Color belt (UT Austin defending champions) divisions. Those participating on Sunday will be competing to win the newly minted traveling NCTA Cup (Northeastern University defending champions).
Said NCTA President Dan Chuang, “NCTA has been consistently setting records for attendance each year for the past several years at our national events, and I expect these championships to be no different. In particular, NCTA now sanctions well over 10 collegiate tournaments per year, so we expect that momentum to carry through to our national championships. I can’t wait to see all of the athletes competing with pride representing their colleges.”
As announced earlier, the 2026 NCTA Team Trials for the FISU America Games will be a separate event held on April 3 in conjunction with the CUTA California State Championships, and should not be confused with the 2026 National Collegiate and High School Championships.
Information will be posted as it becomes available on the NCTA Championships page.
2026 NCTA Team Trials to be held in Fresno, CA on Friday, April 3
2 months
NCTA is pleased to announce that the team trials to represent USA at the 2026 FISU America Games (collegiate Pan American multi-sport Games) will be held on Friday, April 3 in Fresno, CA at the Fresno Convention Center. The 2026 FISU America Games will be held July 20 to August 1, 2026 in Lima, Peru, with taekwondo events taking place July 23-26 (the taekwondo team for USA would likely arrive one to two days earlier and depart on July 27).
The event will be held in conjunction with the California Unified Taekwondo Association (CUTA) state championships. but will have its own separate registration. Said NCTA President Dan Chuang, “The NCTA is grateful to President Yong Choi and CUTA for their gracious support of the collegiate athletes. I am so excited to see these amazing collegiate student athletes vie for the opportunity to represent USA at these unique continental multi-sport Games.”
The divisions being contested at the trials will be:
1) Individual Kyorugi (sparring) (eight male and eight female senior weight classes)
2) Individual Recognized Poomsae (separate male and female)
3) Individual Freestyle Poomsae (separate male and female)
4) Mixed Pair Freestyle Poomsae (one male and one female)
5) Mixed Team Freestyle Poomsae (five athletes, at least two males and at least two females)
The FISU America Games will allow more than one player in each individual discipline to enter. Therefore, NCTA will select two athletes for each individual division to represent the USA.
More information, including selection procedures, will be available soon on the 2026 Team Trials page.
Coaching Application for 2025 Summer World University Games
11 months
The NCTA is now accepting applications for coaches for the 2025 Summer World University Games from July 14-24, 2024 in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany. Applications can be submitted at this form and are due by Friday, April 25 Monday, April 28.
Details of the trip are in the application.
NCTA 2025 Collegiate and High School Championships To Be Held on April 11-13 in Marlborough, MA
1 year
The NCTA is pleased to announce that the 2025 National Collegiate Taekwondo Championships and the 2025 NCTA National High School Championships will take place on Apr. 11-13, 2025 in Marlborough, MA at the Royal Plaza Trade Center. The Championships will also host the poomsae team trials on April 11 for the 2025 Summer World University Games to be held in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany on July 16-27. The sparring team trials for the Summer World University Games will be held in Texas on March 16. Acting as the host school will be Northeastern University’s Taekwondo Club.
Check the NCTA Championships website for a day-by-day event schedule, and for more information as it becomes available.
2025 NCTA Sparring Team Trials To Be Held In Forney, TX on March 16
1 year
The NCTA is pleased to announce that the Sparring Team Trials for the 2025 Summer World University Games will be held in Forney, TX, just outside Dallas, on Sunday, March 16 at the Opportunity Central (OC) campus. The Trials will be held in conjunction with the Texas State Taekwondo Championships on March 15-16. Taekwondo was recently awarded a G-4 status for these Games. The Summer World University Games will be held in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany on July 16-27.
The poomsae team trials for the Games will be held in conjunction with the National Collegiate Taekwondo Championships at a date and location to be confirmed shortly.
Dan Chuang, NCTA President, said “I am so excited to see the level of the Games rise with the increase in the World Taekwondo ranking designation. I am also looking forward to seeing a high level of competition at this year’s NCTA Team Trials. Thank you to Texas State Taekwondo Association President Dong Lee for his support in giving these team team trials a venue.”
