Tulane Karate Club |
(the more recent tournaments, since 2011, are incomplete and may have errors
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50th Annual All-South Karate Championships, April 5, 2014, University of New Orleans
Men's Team Kumite : Tulane Team A (Dimitri, Devin, Harry Rahn) - Bronze Men's Black-Belt Individual Kumite Heavy Weight: Dimitri - Gold (also Grand Champion) Women's
Black-Belt Kumite:
Sharon Davidson - Gold Men’s Brown Belt Kumite: Onwuka - Gold University Team Kumite: Tulane (Harry Rahn, Sicheng Jang, Allen Zhang) - Silver University Advanced Men's Kumite: Harry Rahn - Gold |
49th Annual All-South Karate Championships, April 6, 2013, University of New Orleans
Men's Team Kumite : Tulane Team A (Devin, Dimitri, Steve Gasior) - Silver Men's Black-Belt Individual Kumite Heavy Weight: Dimitri - Gold Women's
Black-Belt Kumite:
Sharon Davidson - Gold
Women's Brown Belt Kumite: Taryn Moll - Silver Men's Brown Belt Kata: Eric Rawls - Gold Men’s Brown Belt Kumite: Eric Rawls - Gold Ife Onwuka - Silver Yoni Kaplan - Bronze University
Team Kumite: Tulane (Yoni
Kaplan, Bomku Han, Sicheng Jang) - Gold University Advanced Men's Kata: Yoni Kaplan - Bronze University Beginners Men's Kumite: Sicheng Jiang - Bronze |
Nationals Results: Men's Team Kumite : Tulane Team A (Devin, Dimitri, Steve) - Silver Advanced Men's Individual Kumite : Dimitri - Gold Advanced Women's Individual Kumite : Sharon - Silver Men's Brown Belt Kumite: Eric Rawls - Bronze Men's Brown Belt Kata: University
Advanced Men’s
University Advanced Men's Kumite: Eric Rawls - Silver
Peixi Zhu - Bronze |
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48th Annual All-South Karate Championships, April 7, 2012, University of New Orleans
Men's Team Kumite : Tulane Team A (Devin, Dimitri, Steve Gasior) - Silver Men's Black-Belt Individual Kumite Heavy Weight: Dimitri - Gold (results missinG) |
Nationals Results: University
Advanced Men’s
University Advanced Men's Kumite: Yoni Kaplan - Bronze |
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47th Annual All-South Karate Championships, April 2, 2011, University of New Orleans
Men's Team Kumite : Tulane Team A (Devin, Dimitri, Steve Gasior) - Silver Men's Black-Belt Individual Kumite Heavy Weight: Dimitri - Gold Men's Black-Belt Individual Kumite Light Weight: Devin - Bronze Men's Black-Belt Individual Kata : Dimitri - Silver Women's
Black-Belt Individual Kumite:
Amanda Gasior - Bronze Women's
Brown-Belt Kata: Joyce
Ward - Gold Elizabeth Wotawa - Bronze Men's Brown Belt Kata: Peixi Zhu - Bronze Men’s Brown Belt Kumite: Peixi Zhu - Silver
Men's Color-Belt Kumite: Max Jay-Dixon - Gold Men's Color-Belt Kata: Men's Beginners Kumite: Yoni Kaplan - Bronze Men's Beginners Kata: Yoni Kaplan - Gold University
Team Kumite: Tulane (Peixi
Zhu, Eric Rawls, Max Jay-Dixon) - Silver University
Advanced Women's Kata:
Joyce Ward - Silver University Advanced Men's Kumite: Peixi Zhu -Bronze
University Advanced Men's Kata: Peixi Zhu - Bronze
University
Intermediate Men's Kumite
: Max Jay-Dixon - Gold
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Nationals Results: Men's Team Kumite : Tulane Team A (Devin, Dimitri, Josh Burns) - Silver
Tulane
Advanced Men's Individual Kumite : Dimitri - Gold Advanced Men's Individual Kata : Dimitri - Bronze
Women's Brown Belt Kumite: Veronica - Silver Men's Brown Belt Kata: Peixi Zhu - Gold University
Advanced Men’s
University Advanced Men's Kumite: Eric Rawls - Silver
Peixi Zhu - Bronze |
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46th Annual All-South Karate Championships, March 6, 2010, University of New Orleans
Men's Team Kumite [Devin, Dimitri, Joel] : GOLD Men's Heavy-Weight Kumite: Dimitri (GOLD) [also men's kumite grand champion] Men's Black Belt Light-Weight Kumite: Devin (GOLD) |
Nationals Results: Men's Team Kumite : Tulane (Kyriakos, Devin, Dimitri) - Bronze Advanced Men's Individual Kumite : Dimitri - Gold
Women's Brown Belt Kumite: Veronica - Silver |
45th Annual All-South Karate Championships, April 4, 2009, University of New Orleans
Men's Team Kumite [Devin, Dimitri, Nathan Thomas] : GOLD Women's Team Kumite [Jennifer, Veronica, Simone] : GOLD Men's Heavy-Weight Kumite: Dimitri (GOLD) [also men's kumite grand champion] Women's Brown-Belt Kata: Veronica Leandrez (GOLD) Women's Brown-Belt Kumite: Veronica Leandrez (BRONZE) Women's Intermediate Kata: Simone Mims (SILVER) Women's Intermediate Kumite: Simone Mims (GOLD) Men's Heavy-Weight Intermediate Kumite: Sam Adams (BRONZE), Luca Celardo (BRONZE) Men's Beginners Heavy-Wt Kata: Ron Robertson (BRONZE) Men's Beginners Light-Wt Kumite: Ron Robertson (SILVER) Men's Beginners Hv-Wt Kumite: Peixi Zhu (BRONZE) |
Nationals Results:
Men's Team Kumite : Southern Team - Gold
Men's Team Kata : Southern Team - Gold Advanced Men's Individual Kumite : Collegiate Men's Individual Black Belt Kumite : Nathan Thomas - Gold Collegiate Men's Individual Beginners Kumite : Jon Malveaux) - Silver |
44th Annual All-South Karate Championships, April 5, 2008, University of New Orleans
Men's Team Kumite [Devin, Dimitri, Nathan Thomas] : GOLD Men's Light-Weight Kumite: Devin (GOLD) Men's Heavy-Weight Kumite: Dimitri (GOLD) [also men's kumite grand champion] Men's Brown Belt Light-Weight Kumite: Austin Ograh (GOLD) Men's Brown Belt Heavy-Weight Kumite: Nathan Thomas (GOLD), SriRamGopal Naraharisetty (BRONZE) Women's Brown-Belt Kata: Monica Portal (GOLD), Jennifer Mefford (SILVER), Natsumi Sugiyama (BRONZE) Women's Brown-Belt Kumite: Felicia Goldsmith (SILVER), Jennifer Mefford and Monica Portal (BRONZE) Women's Intermediate Kata: Mika Sakamoto (GOLD) Men's Intermediate Kumite: Benjamin Varadi (BRONZE) Women's Beginners Kata: Simone Mims (SILVER) Women's Beginners Kumite: Simone Mims (BRONZE) Men's Beginners Hv-Wt Kumite: Jon Malveaux (SILVER) |
Three TKC members competed: Dimitri Papadopoulos, Sharon Davidson, and Federico Lértora
Nationals Results: Women's Team Kumite : Southern Team - Gold
Men's Team Kumite : Southern Team - Gold
Men's Team Kata : Southern Team - Gold Advanced Men's Individual Kumite : Western States Results: Dimitri: Gold in kata and kumite, also best competitor The Southern Region did not field teams in this championship. Congratulations also to Ray Semana and Lane Nevils, who are familiar faces to our club. In the JKA WF America Nationals, Ray got Bronze in kata and in kumite, and Lane got Gold in kata and Bronze in kumite.
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43rd Annual All-South Karate Championships, March 31, 2007, University of New Orleans
Men's Team Kumite [Devin, Dimitri, Austin Ograh] : GOLD Women's Black Belt Kata: Ashlie (SILVER) Men's Black Belt Kata: Dimitri (SILVER) Women's Black Belt Kumite: Ashlie (BRONZE) Men's Light-Weight Kumite: Devin (GOLD) Men's Heavy-Weight Kumite: Dimitri (GOLD) [also men's kumite grand champion] Men's Brown Belt Light-Weight Kumite: Austin Ograh (GOLD) Men's Brown Belt Heavy-Weight Kumite: Nathan Thomas (GOLD) Women's Color-Belt Kata: Natsumi (GOLD) Men's Color-Belt Lt-Wt Kumite: Sandeep (SILVER), Kenji (BRONZE) Women's Beginners Kata: Felicia (SILVER) Women's Beginners Kumite: Jennifer (GOLD), Felicia (BRONZE) Men's Beginners Hv-Wt Kumite: Antony Sandoval (SILVER), Athanasios Chalastaras (BRONZE) |
Five TKC members competed: Devin Fadaol, Dimitri Papadopoulos,
Sharon Davidson, Ashlie Junot and Edith Pike-Biegunska. Collegiate Nationals Results:
Men's Team Kata : Southern Team - Bronze Advanced Men's Individual Kumite : |
pictures below are courtesy of the Alaska Region of the ISKF
10th JKA Funakoshi Gichin Shoto World Cup Aug 19-20, 2006
Sydney, Australia
Men's Kumite: Dimitri earned 5th place (top eight) in individual kumite (the pictures below are stills from Mike Johans' video; report will be posted soon) |
42nd Annual All-South Karate Championships, April 1, 2006, University of New Orleans
Men's Team Kumite [Devin, Dimitri, Nathaniel Thomas] : GOLD Women's Team Kumite [Sharon, Madina, Cindy Hetzer] : SILVER Women's Black Belt Kata: Sharon (BRONZE) Men's Black Belt Kata: Dimitri (GOLD) Devin (SILVER) Women's Black Belt Kumite: Sharon (SILVER) Men's Light-Weight Kumite: Devin (SILVER) Men's Heavy-Weight Kumite: Dimitri (GOLD) [also men's kumite grand champion] Women's Brown Belt Kumite: Cindy Hetzer (SILVER) Men's Color-Belt Lt-Wt Kumite: Sandeep Koka (BRONZE) Men's Beginners Hv-Wt Kumite: Nathaniel Thomas (GOLD) Women's Beginners Kumite: Felicia (SILVER) |
International Goodwill Tournament, June 9, 2005
ISKF/JKA MasterCamp, Camp Greenlane, PA
Men's Team Kumite [Devin with Jovany from Miami and Josh from Colorado] : GOLD Men's individual Kumite: Devin (SILVER) Men's Team Kata [Devin with Jovany from Miami and Josh from Colorado] : SILVER |
41st Annual All-South Karate Championships, April 9, 2005, University of New Orleans
Team Kata [Devin, Dimitri, Sharon] : GOLD Men's Team Kumite [Devin, Dimitri, Jeff] : GOLD Women's Team Kumite [Sharon, Monica, Elizabeth] : GOLD Men's Black Belt Kata: Dimitri (GOLD) Devin (BRONZE) Men's Light-Weight Kumite: Devin (SILVER) Men's Heavy-Weight Kumite: Dimitri (GOLD) [also men's kumite grand champion] Women's Brown Belt Kata: Monica (BRONZE) Women's Brown Belt Kumite: Monica (GOLD) Elizabeth Wotawa (BRONZE) Men's Brown Belt Kumite: Austin (GOLD) Junior Color-Belt Kata: Karim Sbaa (BRONZE) Junior Boys Advanced Kumite; Karim Sbaa (SILVER) |
Five TKC members competed: Devin Fadaol, Dimitri Papadopoulos,
Sharon Davidson, Jean Dejace and Sina Pourtaheri. Collegiate Nationals Results:
Brown-Belt Nationals Results: Sina Pourtaheri Bronze in Kumite Advanced Men's Individual Kumite : |
9th JKA Shoto World Cup Sept 22-23, 2004
Tokyo, Japan
Men's Kumite: Dimitri earned 5th place (top eight) |
10th ISKF PanAmerican Karate Championship, August 13-15
Panama City, Panama
Men's Team Kumite [Devin and Dimitri from our club, other members were Lane Nevils, Jovany Marulanda, and Jumbo Banaria] : GOLD |
USANKF National Championship, July 16-18, 2004
New Orleans, LA
Men's Open WKF Kumite: Dimitri (BRONZE) |
International Goodwill Tournament, June 18, 2004
ISKF/JKA MasterCamp, Camp Greenlane, PA
Men's Team Kumite [Devin, Dimitri and Lane Nevils] : GOLD Men's Kata: Devin Fadaol (4th place) Men's individual Kumite: Dimitri (GOLD) |
All-South Karate Championships, April 3, 2004, University of New Orleans
Special thanks to Marin Simina for being the club’s photographer; for pics go to
http://www.eecs.tulane.edu/Simina/AllSouth04/
Team Kata [Devin Fadaol, Steve Gasior, Jeff Finn] : BRONZE Men's Team Kumite [Devin, Steve Gasior, Jeff Finn, Duncan Irschick] : SILVER Women's Black Belt Kata: Sharon Davidson (Bronze) Men's Black Belt Kata: Devin Fadaol (SILVER) Men's Light-Weight Kumite: Devin Fadaol (GOLD) Women's Brown Belt Kata: Daniela Simina (GOLD) Men's Brown Belt Kumite: Andrew Clerico [SKA of New York] (GOLD) ; Duncan Irschick (SILVER) Women's Color Belt Kata: Elizabeth Wotawa (BRONZE) Women's Color Belt Kumite: Elizabeth Wotawa (BRONZE) Men's Color Belt Kumite Light Weight: Joey Wignarajah (BRONZE) Men's Beginners Kata: Tom Gallen (GOLD) Men's Beginners Light-Weght Kumite: Tom Gallen (Bronze) Junior Color-Belt Kata: Amine Belkhouche (SILVER) Junior Boys Advanced Kumite; Amine Belkhouche (BRONZE) |
Seven TKC members competed: Devin Fadaol, Dimitri Papadopoulos,
Tracy Hamlin, Sharon Davidson, Edith Collegiate Nationals Results: Advanced Men's Individual Kumite : |
Joey in college team kumite semifinals | Jean in collegiate eliminations | ||
Dimitri in college team kumite semifinals |
Devin in eliminations |
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Jean in collegiate eliminations | Devin in eliminations | ||
All-South Collegiate Karate Championship
October 25, 2003,Mobile, AL
(Report by Elizabeth Wotawa) Undergraduate members of the Tulane Karate
Club participated in the 2003
ASKF All-South Annual Collegiate Championship Oct. 25. Each of the club's
seven competitors placed in at least one event. |
4th WKC (World Karate Confederation) World Karate Championship, 2004
St. Petersburg, Russia
Men's Team Kumite [Dimitri from our club, other members were John Fonseca and George Kotaka] : GOLD |
All-South Karate Championships, April 12, 2003, University of New Orleans
Women's Black Belt Kumite: Sharon Davidson (GOLD), Edith Pike Biegunska (Bronze) Men's Black Belt Kata and Light-Weight Kumite: Dimitri Papadopoulos (GOLD) [also kumite Grand Champion] Women's Brown Belt Kata: Daniela Simina (BRONZE) Women's Brown Belt Kumite: Daniela Doegel (GOLD) ; Amanda Johnson (BRONZE) Men's Brown Belt Kata: Steven Gasior (BRONZE) Women's Color Belt Kata: Cindy Littleton (GOLD) Women's Color Belt Kumite: Cindy Littleton (SILVER) Men's Color Belt Kata: Jean Dejace (BRONZE) Men's Color Belt Kumite Heavy Weight: Duncan Irschick (BRONZE) ; Jean Dejace (BRONZE) Men's Color Belt Kumite Light Weight: Sina Pourtaheri (SILVER) ; Eric Bundy (BRONZE) Women's Beginners Kata: Jamie Brown (SILVER) Women's Beginners Kumite: Jamie Bown (GOLD) ; Elizabeth Wotawa (Bronze) |