Important NCTA Championships Updates
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Please see below for some important updates to the NCTA Championships.
- Please note that due to space availability, the General Assembly has meeting time has been changed to 6-8pm at the University of Texas, Austin Recreational Sports Center on Friday, April 19, 2019.
- The deadline to verify student status via the National Student Clearinghouse is April 8, 2019. It was incorrectly noted in one place in the packet and has now been updated. Instructions on how to verify your student status are in the tournament packet.
- Gen 2 socks will now be permitted for use at the NCTA Championships.
After careful consideration and consultation, the NCTA has decided to allow Daedo Gen 2 socks to be used at the 2019 NCTA Championships. Although the Gen 2 socks are not designed for use with Gen 1 electronic body protectors (EBP), we received feedback that athletes do not want to invest in older technology as it is cost prohibitive. Athletes may still use Gen 1 socks with or without heel socks; please note that those using Gen 1 socks will be at a disadvantage against an athlete using Gen 2 socks, since Gen 2 socks have more magnet sensors and therefore will score more easily.
While we recognize that those who have invested in Gen 1 socks may now feel the need to upgrade, the NCTA feels that it is in the best interest of the athletes to allow them to invest in Gen 2 as it is future-oriented. Athletes may order new Gen 2 socks at https://www.tkdscore.com/
Please continue to use our Championships website as a resource and a place to find the latest tournament packet:
2019 NCTA Collegiate and High School Championships Packet Posted
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The NCTA Championships Tournament packet has been posted to the NCTA Championships website, including schedule information, hotel information, and tournament rules.
Please note that tournament hotel information has been posted at the site above and is in the packet, and that the host hotel rates expire on March 27.
Also, all collegiate ant high school championship divisions serve as qualifiers for the 2019 USA Taekwondo National Championships. All competitors (high school and collegiate) will qualify to compete at the 2019 USA Taekwondo National Championships in their corresponding poomsae and/or sparring divisions. Please note that the High School Sparring Divisions will not earn ranking points due to the age spread (15-19), however, collegiate championship black belt poomsae and sparring divisions are USAT 10.0 events.
Collegiate black belt poomsae team trial divisions will serve as Team Trials for the 2019 U.S. National Collegiate Team and are not a ranking point event. Due to the FISU limitation of 6 total poomsae athletes per country, trials will be held only for the male team and female team divisions, with the individual and pair athletes being chosen from among the 6 selected athletes.
2019 NCTA Sparring Team Trials Held in Ft. Worth, SWUG Sparring Team Selected
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Congratulations to the sparring team trials winners who competed Saturday, March 9 at the Ft. Worth Convention Center in Ft. Worth Texas! This team will represent Team USA at the Summer World University Games in Naples, Italy this July 2019. Special thanks to the Texas State Taekwondo Association for supporting this event.
Female Fly – Lizette Salas (California State University, Northridge)
Male Fly – Alejandro Bravo (Miami Dade Community College)
Female Bantam – Logan Weber (Johnson County Community College)
Male Bantam – George El-Chemali (University of Southern California)
Female Feather – Starla Santana (Miami Dade Community College)
Male Feather – Charles Buset (American Military University)
Female Light – Amanda Bluford (De Vry University)
Male Light – Matthew Klein (University of Dayton)
Female Welter – Cheyenne Lewis (University of California, Berkeley)
Male Welter – Connor Wilson (University of California, Los Angeles)
Female Middle – Makayla Gorka (University of Central Oklahoma)
Male Middle – Abdul Rahman (College of Southern Maryland)
2019 SWUG Sparring Team Trials Registration Open
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Registration for the 2019 SWUG Sparring Team Trials is now open on https://www.usat.hangastar.
NCTA Mourns Loss of Lou Keppner
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by Webmaster
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The NCTA is deeply sorry to hear of the passing of NCTA referee, Mr. Lou Keppner. Mr. Keppner has refereed at NCTA events for many years, and more recently had co-created the poomsae scoring system used at recent USAT and NCTA events and supported NCTA events in that capacity.
Said NCTA Referee Char Mike Wickham, “Mr. Keppner was a man who gave of himself for Taekwondo. For the Poomsae Pro system he helped create, he spent the time to make sure things worked smoothly. I will miss seeing him at events and enjoy the visits during those time. Lou was the consummate professional in what he did.”
Mr. Keppner will be missed and condolences of the all the NCTA officers go out to his family.
