Announcements
NCTA General Assembly and Discussion Reminder
Dear NCTA Members,
Just a reminder to register your club for NCTA membership at:
http://ncta-usa.com/membership/register/
in order for your club to be recognized as an NCTA member at the NCTA general assembly, and to be considered in the year-end rankings. You may bring your fee and letter of institutional recognition with you and pay at the general assembly. Thank you.
The NCTA General Assembly will be at 7:00pm at the tournament site, the University of Colorado Boulder Recreation Center. There will be a discussion regarding the NCAA recognition efforts at NCTA as well as other agenda items. Please feel free to attend whether you are an NCTA member club or not.
Best,
NCTA Organizing Committee
NCTA Championships Livestreaming
The NCTA is pleased to announce that the 2016 National Collegiate Taekwondo Championships will be streamd on Saturday and Sunday, April 23-24 at the following links:
https://livestream.com/accounts/18828652/Rings1n2
https://livestream.com/accounts/18915958/Rings3n4
https://livestream.com/accounts/18938409/Rings5n6
2016 NCTA Championships Update
Dear NCTA,
The NCTA just found out that e-helmets will not be available for the 2016 National Collegiate Taekwondo Championships. This means that sparring competitors will not need the additional heel sensor for their Daedo socks. As there will be no need for the heel socks, they will not be allowed.
Make sure to register for this event by Monday, April 18. Anyone who does not register cannot compete or coach.
Respectfully,
Rex Hatfield
Sr. Vice-President,
NCTA
April Letter to NCTA Membership Regarding NCAA Recognition and USCT
Dear Fellow Collegiate Athletes, Coaches & Referees,
Greetings from NCTA!
I hope this message finds you well. I would like to draw your attention to recent developments with the group calling itself United States Collegiate Taekwondo (USCT). Although their stated purpose is to gain NCAA recognition for our sport, they appear to lack a clear understanding of the process for achieving that recognition from the University/Athletics perspective.
The NCTA has previously engaged in efforts to attain NCAA recognition for taekwondo dating back to when Dr. Ken Min was the president of NCTA in the early 1970’s. Those efforts met with little support and were eventually unsuccessful. However, this doesn’t mean that it is impossible, but there have been valuable lessons learned in that process that need to be considered as we go forward.
A major problem with the approach that USCT is taking in the pursuit of NCAA recognition for Women’s Intercollegiate Taekwondo, is the lack of transparency in the details of their proposal. This is especially concerning when you consider that their leadership has made promises and claims of progress without the majority of collegiate programs having any input whatsoever.
To compound the issue, they have enlisted the support of the Pan American Taekwondo Union (PATU) and the WTF in order to gain perceived legitimacy. Let’s be very clear on this issue; neither the WTF or PATU have any jurisdiction or authority to decide who should govern collegiate taekwondo in the United States. That power resides with USA Taekwondo and they continue to recognize the NCTA as the official governing body (NGB).
Finally, my most important point is that we stay united in our efforts to develop collegiate taekwondo under the banner of the NCTA. Although the motivations of the USCT may be good, the idea of a largely non-collegiate run organization dictating the future rules and structure of intercollegiate taekwondo without the direction of the official collegiate taekwondo NGB is unacceptable.
I encourage you to attend our Collegiate National Championships in Boulder Colorado on April 22-24th to participate in an informational meeting and open forum to discuss the pros, cons and process of taekwondo becoming an NCAA official sport.
Yours Sincerely,
President Russell Ahn and the Officers of the NCTA
2016 NCTA Championships Tournament Packet
The 2016 NCTA Championships Tournament Packet which includes detailed information about schedule, required equipment, venue information and required forms can found by clicking here.