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Taekwondo Canada – The 2017 Pan American Cadet and Junior Championships will be held from August 29th to the 31st in San Jose, Costa Rica. This G2 event is expecting to host the best Junior athletes in Pan American who are set to battle in the next 2018 Junior Olympic Games.

Taekwondo Canada is sending 23 Poomsae athletes, 44 Kyorugi athletes (7 wildcard athletes included) and 22 coaches to this event. The line-up consists of 2016 WTF World Junior Championships bronze medalist Zachary Hiebert, as well as Michelle Lee and Mark Bush, both bronze medalists in Individual Freestyle Poomsae divisions at the 2016 World Poomsae Championships.

Jamie Dossantos will lead the team at the Pan Am Taekwondo Championships in addition to her role as High Performance Department Staff for Taekwondo Canada. Joining Jamie’s team of officials will be Dr. Terry DeFreitas as team medical and Carmen Chan as the athletic therapist.

“We are really excited to announce the Team Canada squad for the Pan American Taekwondo Championships,” said Jamie, “Our team is young and dynamic. For many of them, this is the first time to represent Canada at an international stage. This will definitely be a great opportunity for them to develop their potentials and get motivated for the 2018 Junior World Olympic Games.”

Canadian athletes have been training intensively in preparation for this event. Zachary Hiebert, who is competing in the M -78kg weight division, has been training one to two sessions a day, 5 times a week, while doing conditioning on his day offs during this summer.

“I feel confident and prepared as well honoured to compete and represent Canada at the Pan Am Championships next week in Costa Rica,” said Zachary, “I hope to perform and represent my country and bring home the gold medal for Canada at this event.”

Junior Kyorugi Team

Category

Athlete

Category

Athlete

M-45kg

Adam Peterson

F-42kg

Brianna Tolentino

M-48kg

Nicholas Hoefling

F-44kg

Mya Nicholson

M-51kg

Django Meier

F-46kg

Maryam Younis

M-55kg

Ali Morwat Abdul Jabar

Wild: F-46kg

Haley Kim

M-59kg

Kevin Saatian

F-49kg

Ceili Peterson

Wild: M-59kg

Stefan Trantalovski

F-52kg

Josipa Kafadar

M-63kg

Santiago Herrera

F-55kg

Melissa Van Oischot

Wild: M-63kg

Tae Ku Park

F-59kg

Bogdana Sredojevic

M-68kg

Irie Chung

Wild: F-59kg

Sofie Nicholson

M-73kg

Ethan McClymont

F-63kg

Vanessa Romanski

Wild: M-73kg

Austin Morgan

F-68kg

Thayla Brunal

M-78kg

Zachary Hiebert

   

M+78kg

Khole Ho-Sang

   

Wild: M+78kg

John Daniel Keenan

   

Cadet Kyorugi Team

Category

Athlete

Category

Athlete

M-33kg

Matthew Yan

F-29kg

Arianna Caredda

M-37kg

Jacob Stevens

F-33kg

Hanna Paik

M-41kg

Carl Adrian Punongbayan

F-37kg

Megan-Jaye Lor

M-45kg

Artur Bespalyi

F-41kg

Chutong Huang

M-49kg

Matthew Tchouikine

F-44kg

Natalie Sredojevic

M-53kg

Sam Wagnleithner

F-47kg

Carrington Carroll

Wild:M-53kg

Ian Chan

F-51kg

Kaleigh Mardynalka

M-57kg

Kyler Arnold

F-55kg

Annabelle Tremblay

M-61kg

Carter Kropp

F-59kg

Juliana Campos

M-65kg

Aidan Dickie

 

 

Poomsae Team

Poomsae

Category

Athlete

Recognized

Indiv-Cadet-F

Mellisa Lam

Recognized

Indiv-Cadet-M

William Samuel Tam

Recognized

Indiv-JR-F

Justina Yu

Recognized

Indiv-JR-M

Brian Lam

Recognized

Indiv-JR-Wild-F

Brianna-Lauren Lor

Freestyle

Indiv-JR-F

Michelle Lee

Freestyle

Indiv-JR-M

Mark Bush

Recognized

Pair-Cadet

Enoch Chau

Mellisa Lam

Recognized

Pair-JR

Brian Lam

Justina Yu

Recognized

Pair-U17

Anton Carreon

Michelle Lee

Recognized

Team-Female Cadet

Faith Tai

Linqiao Zhang

Stephanie So

Recognized

Team-Male Cadet

Anton Carreon

Enoch Chau

Joshua Kwan

Recognized

Team-Female Junior

Evanicca Bush

Jina Ha

Michelle Lee

Recognized

Team-Male Junior

Noah Avery Man

Noah Martin

Samuel Lee

Freestyle

U17 Team

Cecilia Haymin Kim

Jamie Jieun Choi

Jihwan Kim

Ryan Choi

Serena Obeyd

Team Canada Coaches

Kyorugi/Poomsae

Coach

Kyorugi/Poomsae

Coach

Kyorugi

Shin Wook Lim

Kyorugi

Shelley Vettese-Baert

Kyorugi

Jae Park

Kyorugi

Matt Ross

Kyorugi

Dan Thornton

Kyorugi

Raymond Mourad

Kyorugi

Jerome Cabanatan

Kyorugi

Cecilia Lee

Kyorugi and Poomsae

Edward Fong

Kyorugi

Gary McLaughlin

Kyorugi

In Kyung Kim

Kyorugi

Katy Pyke

Kyorugi

Jason Phinney

Poomsae

Kev Cheng

Kyorugi

Jean-Sebestien Renaud

Poomsae

Lui Lois Fong

Kyorugi

Max Brunal

Poomsae

Bhajan Mann

Kyorugi

Taeyoung Han

Poomsae

Seoungmin Rim

Kyorugi

Carla Bacco

Poomsae

Yo Hwan Kim

Team Officials

Role

Name

Athletic Therapist

Carmen Chan

Medical

Dr. Terry DeFreitas

Team Manager

Jamie Dossantos

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