news-announcements-ruminations: |archive| 2005 nystc 01.29 Congratulations to folks who fought at the NYSTC meet - Pano, Sasha, Liza, Kyria, Erica, Mike, and Imani. Pano, Mike and Kyria took silver in men's bantam-feather, fin-fly and women's welter-middle respectively, and Liza bronze in women's welter-middle. Sasha took gold in men's light-welter. Pano and Sasha qualified for the trip to the German Open. Pano will head off for the Feb 19th weekend along with AAU athletes Jayson Grant and Fredson Gomes to Bonn to compete in the German Open at bantam, light and middleweight respectively. feb 21 Welcome back to Pano, Jayson Fredson, from their outings at the German Open. Level of competition was very high...good quality matches for all. mar 3-6 US Open crew: plans are all good for the open. tBOS kits are due in mar 1 and will include the tBOS uni, warmup and hat. It's all about the tribe! competing in men's middle (Fredson) welter (Chinedum and Sasha), men's light(Fabio), men's bantam (Pano), men's fin (Dan), women's welter (Liza), women's middle (Kyria). Good luck to Mike who will miss the US Open but will be in Beirut for the Lebanon event. mar 7 US Open: Congratulations to the crew. Along with strong showings by Sasha and Liza against quality opponents in their opening matches as well as quaterfinal appearances by Chinedum and Dan, there were the medallists: Fredson took bronze in middleweight, Kyria silver in women's middle, and Pano the gold in men's bantam. Although leading comfortably with just 20 seconds to go in the match, Fabio was forced to bow out on a technicality in the quaterfinals when medics were unable to stop his nosebleed in the third round. Were it not for that misfortune, he'd have been in the semifinals and competing for a shot at the gold. Welcome back to Mikey too, who took silver in the Beirut Open after a hotly contested final against Jordan in men's flyweight. may 14 US Collegiate Team Trials: Congratulations go out to Nancy Archambault, Erica Chan, Christina Park, James Cadogan, and Liza Shakhnovich. Liza and Erica took silver, earning a place on the National Collegiate B-Team, while Christina and James (West Side TKD) took gold and made the first team. They will travel to Izmir,Turkey later this year (aug 11-21) for the 23rd Summer Universiade (World University Games) jun 3 US Collegiate Team for 2005 Universiade: The US Collegiate Team has been set. On the basis of their placings at the Team Trials, Christina Park will represent the US at women's middleweight, James Cadogan at men's middleweight, and Liza Shakhnovich at women's welterweight in Izmir,Turkey (aug 11-21) for the 23rd Summer Universiade (World University Games). It's the 'Olympics' of University Games. In Daegu, Korea, in 2003, Christina competed in middleweight for the US, and Fredson Gomes in men's middleweight for Cape Verde. See the FISU page for more info, or the Izmir 2005 page aug 15 Liza wins bronze in Izmir - Elizabeth Shakhnovich, US Collegiate Women's Welterweight Team member was one of only 3 US medal recipients in Taekwondo at the recently concluded Games in Izmir, Turkey. She won her preliminary matches against Chinese Taipei and Vietnam by scores of 3-0 (PTS) and 1-1 (SUP) before meeting a tough opponent from Korea athelete in the semi-finals. Other medallists in her division were France, Korea and Turkey. It's a major accomplishment by her, and an excellent result. Photos are up at the USA Taekwondo's page here oct 29 Congratulations and welcome back to folks who recently competed at the US Nationals in San Jose, CA. Daniel Chuang, Erica Chan, Liza Shakhnovich, Jayson Grant, Mike Harb and Homer Rogers. Everybody competed termemdously! Mike took silver in men's open flyweight, Liza silver in women's national welter, and Jayson bronze in men's national light, withdrawing due to injury which prevented him from contesting for the gold medal round. 2006 jan-aug Webmaster not keeping up! Let's see...we've had folks go out for competition at the US Open in Dallas, qualifiers in Buffalo, AAU Nationals, INCTL league win by MIT, medals at CAC Games and Pan Am Open in Chicago. It's been a busy year so far. Fall looks to be busy as well with lots of regional events, and US Senior Nationals coming up in November. Go tBOS!. 2007 jan 6,7 Congrats to Liza, Jayson and Christina Park (WestSide) as well as New England athlete Brett Schuschereba who all competed at the Pan Am Team Trials in Colorado Springs. Next up, US Open in 5 weeks! jul 7 Congratulations to everyone who competed at the Senior National Championships in San Jose, CA on July 10-11! Jayson Grant (welterweight) sparred in the world class division and won a SILVER MEDAL! Jayson lost in the finals in the closing seconds by 1 point. However, by placing second, Jayson qualified for the US Olympic Trials on August 25 - one of only a handful of competitors in the US with that honor. Those trials will determine the representative for the US in at the Beijing Olympics. Good luck to Jayson as he prepares for the Olympic Trials! Also competing the Senior National Championships were competition team members Louise Jawerth, Conor Madigan, Alicia Zhou, and Erica Chan, who competed in the World Class division, and Anastasia Kazimirova, Nathan Hanagami, Richard-Duane Chambers, Dan Shalev and Bobby Ren, who competed in the Elite Open division. Great job everyone! jul 16 Congratulations to Chinedum who won a BRONZE MEDAL at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The medal was the first medal for Trinidad and Tobago of the entire games! aug 24 Jayson Grant competed at the US Olympic Team Trials in the Men's welterweight division and placed 4th. Congratulations Jayson!