Member News
July 3 , 2006
USA Judo National High School Team Trains in Japan - NEW PHOTOS!
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USA Judo High School Girls Team with Team Captain Miyamoto and the coaching staff of the Teikyo University Women's Team, the current defending
All-Japan University Team Champions. The Teikyo Team is most notably famous for producing
Olympic Champion Ryoko Tamura (Tani). Currently, Miyamoto is the top-ranked female athlete in Japan at 57kg. |
USA High School Girls Team with the members from Teikyo High
School. USA Team Members include Jillian Roman, Brittni Bradford, Paula
Duarte, Nicole Laurell, Sarah Newton, Tessa Plana and Halee Shadden. |
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USA High School Team with (from left to right) Coach Gary
Norton, Ron Yoshida, and Humberto Becerra at the Kodokan posing at the
famous statue of Jigoro Kano at the main entrance.
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The USA Judo National High School Team, following a training session at the Taisei High School in Japan where the boys' team will be training for two weeks. Taisei is the second-ranked high school judo program in Japan this year. The girls' team is training at Teikyo High School in Tokyo. The boys' team competed against the Aichi All-Stars June 24. The boys' team is pictured above with coaches Bert Becerra and Gary Norton. |
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