July 4th—Competing at the 2010 USA Junior Olympics & Senior National Championships in Orlando, Florida this past weekend, Master Andrew Oh and Mr. Dylan D’sa both brought hold the gold medals as they are now crowned as the 2010 USA National Champions! Master Andrew Oh started off with a 1st round bye, making it to the Round of 16 to face of 2009 US Junior National Team member Matthew Kim. The match ended in a whopping victory of 19-3, scoring 4 face shots throughout the match. The next match was against 2009 US Open Bronze Medalist Joel Han, which ended in a win in Overtime by Superiority.  Master Oh’s semifinal match was against Peak Performance Team Member Jayson Zuluaga. Taking an early lead of 2-0 in the 1st round, the referees scored a face kick to Zuluaga, which did not touch Master Oh’s head. Master Oh quickly caught back taking a 5-3 lead, scoring two back kicks and a quadruple kick to the stomach. However, the referees made some controversial calls, allowing Zuluaga to take the match into overtime. In overtime, Master Oh again scored the 1st point, but the referees took the point away stating that there was a mechanical error. Through all this, Master Oh managed to score with a left roundhouse kick, winning the match in overtime. His final match against US Pan Am Team member Bernard Posey ended up in a bow out forfeit win by Posey, giving Master Oh the win.

Dylan D’sa of Massapequa, NY won four straight matches in a row, defeating athletes from Texas, Virginia, Alaska and Texas in the finals.  Mr. D’sa won his final match against Sunghoon Jung by a decisive score of 6-1, claiming the US National Champion Heavy Weight title!

Master Oh now qualifies for the US Olympic Team Trials, US National Team Trials & Pan American Games Team Trials, while Mr. D’sa makes the 12-13 US Cadet Team, which will be sponsored to compete at the 2011 US Opens next year! Congratulations to both athletes on their great accomplishments!

Our medalists for this year's event are as followed:

Master Andrew Oh—GOLD / Dylan D’sa—GOLD / Daniel Geiyer—BRONZE(2) / Christina LoBuglio—GOLD(2) / Elizabeth Smoller—SILVER(2) / Jenna Portogallo—GOLD / Spencer Astrow—BRONZE / Justin Shim—SILVER(2), GOLD / Matthew Mancuso—BRONZE / Michael Mancuso—BRONZE(3) / Melissa Mancuso—GOLD, BRONZE / Michael Lantino—BRONZE / John Lantino—BRONZE / Christopher Jost—SILVER(2) / Andre Wong—GOLD / Tiffany Chen—GOLD(2) / Priscilla Pan—GOLD, SILVER / Emmy Liang—SILVER(2) / George Chen—GOLD, SILVER / Laura Song—SILVER

Master Oh's newspaper article can be viewed in Korean on the Korea Times: http://ny.koreatimes.com/article/603547