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Four of ChampYon Athletes Named to All-American National Team Members from our ChampYon Team
2010 USAT Illinois State Taekwondo Championship will be Saturday March 13th at Triton College, River Grove, IL. 2010 All American Challenge will be Saturday May 22nd
ChampYon Team had three athletes qualified for this event. "It was a great honor for me as a coach." said Master Medina, ChampYon Team Head Coach. "I had three athletes in this event and all three were in the final of the round robins." Alex Yow and Humberto Prado Jr. are team-mates and had to fight the first match in which Alex won by superiority. Humberto won his next two matches against other national opponents and meet Alex again in finals. Alex was undefeated and needed to win over Humberto once, while Humberto needed to win twice. Alex won the first final match and became the 2010 Bantam weight U.S. National Team Member. Humberto earned the Alternate seat. Nick Yow who is Alex's twin brother won all his matches and became 2010 Light Weight U.S. National Team Member. Congratulations to Nick and Alex, hard work pays off! 2010 Junior World Championships Team Trials Open Qualifier at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. All Results of the 5th Junior Pan American Taekwondo Championships in El Salvador 2009 Six athletes were selected Friday November 06, 2009 during the Youth Olympic Games Team Trials at the Colorado Springs Olympic Training Center. The six winners will represent the U.S. at the Youth Olympic Games Qualification Tournament in Tijuana, Mexico, March 3-4, 2010. U.S. Athletes that place in the top six at the YOG Qualification Tournament will qualify for the 2010 Youth Olympic Games in Singapore, August 14-26. Qualifying for the team were Jessie Bates (Redondo Beach, Calif.) in the female 44-49kg division, Selina Tubbs (Plano, Texas) in the female 49-55kg division, Michelle Silva (Chicago, Ill.) in the female over 63kg division, Gregory English (Chicago, Ill.) in the male under 48kg division, Olie Burton (Alexandria, Va.) in the male 48-55kg division, and Jeffery Williams (Blue Island, Ill.) in the male 55-63kg division. The 1st World Teakwondo Leaders Forum was held in South Korea!
The team will represent the USA in the Pan-American Games in El Salvador, November 20-22, 2009. Congratulations to Christian, and Gregory. job well done! Team ChampYon USA got great results in USAT and AAU Nationals USAT Junior Olympics and Senior Nationals were held at Austin, TX July 02-05, 2009. Three athletes placed top 4, and will compete August 22, for Spot on the National Team. Team Trials will be held at Colorado Springs, CO. Team ChampYon trained in Korea! The 2009 All American Challenge was a great success! We thank Lajust for the outstanding work, by running the tournament with the electronic chest protectors, we feel very honored being the first tournament in the USA to be run by this system, besides US Open and other International events. We got a very good feed back from all the athletes about the system, they said "it is great thing that everybody should be using it". We also thank Master Chuong Pham, our tournament referee chairman, for his always support. Master Eric Laurin, tournament coordinator, this man does miracle running a tournament what a great job he did. All the people that supported the tournament, thank you so much. Any comments, good or bad, do not hesitate. Please send us an e-mail to: champion3657@yahoo.com
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