The second day of Kyorugi competition featured USA Fly-weights Jazzmyn Paguirigan and Tyler Sawyer in the early matches followed by welter-weights Tasha Pruter and Phillip Yun. Paguirigan opened the day on a positive note with a hard-fought win against Chinese Mongolia. USA was the aggressor in a tight 1-1 match going into round-3. After giving up a defensive point to go down 1-2, Paguirigan kept up the pressure and fought back to an exciting late round come-back 4-3 win, advancing to the round of eight where she eventually lost 0-5 to Turkey. USA\u2019s Tyler Sawyer took on Portugal\u2019s Braganca. Sawyer was giving up nearly 8 inches in height to Portugal whose defensive cut-kick proved too much for the USA. Saywer lost 1-3. Braganca was silver at 2011 Worlds in Korea.<\/p>\n
USA\u2019s Phillip Yun wowed the Chinese crowd with his first match win over Germany\u2019s Sebastian Lehman. Yun\/Lehman match was a nail-biter with Yun scoring a variety of techniques including punches during regular time. In overtime, USA timed a perfect counter punch against a race attack for a 5-4 win. Team Leader Hanwon Lee had both the USA and Chinese fans roused into thunderous chants of \u201cUSA-JAIO, USA-JAIO\u201d in what turned into one of the best early round crowd pleasers. In the round of 16, Yun used his speed, aggression, and excellent ring-management to defeat Mexico\u2019s Sergio Gurrola 6-1. Yun advanced into the quarter finals to take on Morocco. Narrowly missing a blazing jump-spin heel kick that would have tied things up, Yun lost to Morocco 4-9, who went on to finish bronze.<\/p>\n
USA\u2019s Tasha Pruter opened the female welter division with a domination 10-0 win over Benin. Pruter, a freshman from University of Missouri, KC used cut-kick\/head-shot combos to control the entire match, frustrating her opponent and advancing to the quarter-final round. Using the same tactics, Tasha fought a close match against Korea\u2019s Seu Mi Woo but eventually lost 1-2 in a hear-breaker.<\/p>\n
Team spirits were high following today\u2019s action. Under the leadership of Dr. Russell\u00a0Ahn, Head Coach Tim Ghormley, and leaders Hanwon Lee and Alex Antipa met with\u00a0Korea\u2019s Collegiate Federation Director Hwan-Sun Lee, Executive Director Chung-Young Lee, and Secretary-General Eun Seok Park to discuss next year\u2019s Collegiate\u00a0Championships, future exchanges with the USA and growth of collegiate Taekwondo.<\/p>\n
See the photo gallery<\/a>. — Alex Antipa, Team Manager<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The second day of Kyorugi competition featured USA Fly-weights Jazzmyn Paguirigan and Tyler Sawyer in the early matches followed by welter-weights Tasha Pruter and Phillip Yun. Paguirigan opened the day on a positive note with a hard-fought win against Chinese Mongolia. USA was the aggressor in a tight 1-1 match going into round-3. After giving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-team","count-0","even alt","author-webmaster","last"],"yoast_head":"\n
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