Put your love for judo and your artistic abilities together to design a logo for the National Collegiate Judo Association. The winning logo will become the official logo of our organization. Submit the winning logo and get a "Judo Package" that will include a new Century Judo Gi, Mike Swain Technique poster and Mike Swain's Complete Judo DVD.
All entries must be submitted by May 1st, 2006.
Coach Bob Perez and the Texas A&M Judo team are a force to be reckoned with. On Janurary 23-26th, the Aggies played host to a 4 day training camp that was capped off with the Texas Collegiate Conference Championships. The National training camp was hosted by USA Judo which provided some top notch instruction.
The 4 day seminar was headed up by 1976 Olympian Patrick Burris, IJF “A” Referee Dr. Gary Berliner and Tom Riggs. 45 players from Texas, Louisiana and Tennessee attended the 4 day technical training camp. Dr. Berliner used this camp to familiarize the players with the new rules which eliminate the red zone and 5 second penalty. These new rules which are currently being testing by the IJF were used during Sunday’s tournament and considered by most everyone a huge success.
For the 7th consecutive year Texas A&M defended their title as champions of the Texas Collegiate Conference Championships. Finishing in a close second in the team standings was the University of Texas. The Aggies were led by Jaime Lazcano 81kg and Jonathan Fuller 100kg who both captured gold medals in their perspective categories. See below for full results.
Texas A&M Judo program is making progress at all levels as they were fortunate to be hosted by University Vice President Dean Bresciani for a reception at his home honoring the first judo scholarship. Many Texas A&M Judo Alumni and supporters were in attendance to recognize the success the Judo program has had raising over $16,000. Those funds will go towards the permanent endowed judo scholarship.
Texas A&M Judo hopes to have a second judo scholarship available by the fall of 2006. The first Scholarship was awarded to Abdel Diawara (73kg). Abdel who hails from the Ivory Coast is a junior at Texas A&M pursuing his degree in accounting. He is a former regional and junior national champion in the Ivory Coast and has represented his country at the African Continental Championships. This Scholarship marks tremendous progress in College Judo across the United States as this is the second NCJA program to start a scholarship within the last year. San Jose State University announced the Mike Swain Scholarship in 2005.
Donations to the Texas A&M Endowed Judo Scholarship are tax-deductible and count toward the One Spirit One Vision campaign, a $1 billion fund-raising effort aimed at helping Texas A&M attain a national top 10 status. If you have any questions, please contact Texas A&M Judo at (979) 218-4582 or by e-mail at judoscholarship@tamu.edu.
Texas Collegiate Conference Championships Results
Female
52 kg
1. Nicole Neely - University of Texas
57 kg
1. Whitney Lanfranco - Texas A&M
Male
60 kg
1. Ronald Sit - University of Texas
2. Tim O Brien - Texas A&M
3. Russell Hill - Blinn College
66kg
1. Vincent Bryant - College of the Mainland
2. Thomas Mitchell - Southern Methodist University
73 kg
1. Jeff Fong - Montgomerry County College
2. Abdel Diawara - Texas A&M
3. Stan Wang - Texas A&M
81 kg
1. Jaime Lazcano - Texas A&M
2.Mark Tsechansky - University of Texas
Kevan O' Malley - University of North Texas
90kg
1. John Lane - Texas A&M
2. Ignacio Mata - University of Texas
100kg
1. Jonathan Fuller - Texas A&M
2. Thomas Merhout - Texas A&M
3. Matthew Johnson - University of Texas
+100 kg
1. Arjun Ghosh - Texas A&M
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