May 2010 Schedule

The May schedule will be full of the normal practice schedule leading up to our California State Championships from May 28 to May 30 at San Francisco City College. Everyone that plans on competing in the State tournament needs to make every effort to attend all practices for the month of May. Training for this event should be high priority for all competitors and this tournament along with Junior Nationals in July will help coaches determine promotions and future lesson plans for the team. All team members should be ready to train hard whether you will be competing or not, everyone needs to train to make themselves better as well as help push all of our competitors to exceed and obtain their goals.

KONJO!

CCSF Tournament Results

Team Sacramento took a small team to the CCSF Tournament on April 24 with great success. A total of seven competitors fought in eight divisions with all placing. A total of five gold medals, two silver medals, and one bronze medal were the final team results. Here are the individual results:

Ashley Booth- Bronze
Curtis Booth- Gold
Austin Ward- Gold
Marlina Luz- Gold
Danile Luz- Silver (purple belt division)
Syria Rhodes- Silver (brown belt division)
Wesley Leong- Gold & Gold (white & brown belt division)

Congratulations to all competitors.

KONJO!

Bay Isle Tournament

Team Sacramento sent a team of 17 competitors competing in 19 divisions to the Bay Isle Tournament in Alameda on April 18. We had 14 medals total with a combined win loss record of 54 wins and 23 losses. Here are the individual results:

Molly Bides- Gold
Curtis Booth- Gold & Silver (higher weight division)
Julian Estrada- Gold
Eric Hardison- Gold
Daniel Luz- Gold
Andrea Estrada- DNP
Ellis Shaw- Bronze
Kyle Roberts- Silver (black belt division)
Jordan Greenfelder- DNP
Stephen Cudal- DNP
Austin Ward- Gold
CJ Byrd- Silver
Villi Hopoi- DNP
Ashley Booth- Bronze & Silver (higher weight division)
Syria Rhodes- Gold
Wes Leong- DNP (brown belt division)
Marlina Luz- Gold

Congratulations to everyone and now we will look forward to our training for California State Championships in May.

KONJO!

Katie Davis Brings Home Silver

Katie Davis competed in the Visually Impaired World Championships this past weekend in Antalya, Turkey bringing home the silver medal in the 78 kg division, becoming only the third American female to win a medal at VIWC event. Katie won her first two matches (AZE & ESP)before losing in the finals against (RUS). Katie also competed in the +70 kg division placing seventh. We are all extremely proud of Katie as she keeps working on qualifying for the London Paralympic games. Congratulations Katie and to the entire team that helped Katie prepare!

KONJO!

Team Sacramento Shines in Cupertino Tournament

Team Sacramento had one of the best tournaments in our history this past Sunday March 28 in Cupertino California. We sent 14 players to the tournament competing in 15 divisions. Every player had at least a 50% winning percentage and brought home a medal. As a team we had 40 wins to 12 losses with 34 wins by way of ippon! It was a great day and here are the individual results:

Marlina Luz- Gold
Daniel Luz- Silver
LJ Cudal- Gold
Stephen Cudal- Bronze
Andrea Estrada- Silver
Syria Rhodes- Gold
Julian Estrada- Gold
Ashley Booth- Gold
Curtis Booth- Gold
Curtis Booth (Division Heavier)- Gold
Austin Ward- Bronze
Kyle Roberts (Black Belt)- Bronze
Ellis Shaw- Gold
Matt Ontiveros- Bronze
Nick Ontiveros- Silver

KONJO!

April Schedule

April schedule will be modified due to mandatory coaching certification this coming weekend. All of the coaches are required to attend coaching certification this Saturday April 3 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM, because of this certification we will not be able to have our regularly scheduled Saturday workout. The rest of this months schedule will be unaltered. We will be attending the Bay Isle Tournament on Sunday April 18 in Alameda California. As always there will be no practice the Saturday before the tournament on April 17. Please ask the coaching staff if you have any questions and we apologize that there is no practice this Saturday.

Goodall Sensei