In addition to Swain Sports we would also like to thank the Orange County Kodokan Judo Club for their generous donations. The Orange County Kodokan Judo club has pledged a donation incentive for each of the Gold Medal winners from the 2006 National Championships. The following incentive program will be offered to each our Collegiate gold medalist that can achieve success at the Senior National Championships in Houston Texas.

Collegiate National Gold Medal & Senior National Gold Medal $500 Incentive
Collegiate National Gold Medal & Senior National Silver Medal $300 Incentive
Collegiate National Gold Medal & Senior National Bronze Medal $200 Incentive

The NCJA wishes the best of luck to all college athletes competing in Houston next month.

Chuck Jefferson
NCJA President

1st San Jose State University
2nd West Point Military Academy
3rd Texas A&M
3rd Northern Arizona University

Team Champions Female

1st San Jose State University
2nd West Point Military Academy
3rd Texas A&M
3rd Northern Arizona University

Most Outstanding Male

Felipe Nova University of Colorado Colorado Springs

Most Outstanding Female

Marti Malloy San Jose State University

Tom Lambert Most Inspirational Award

Travis Stevens San Jose State University

Jeremy Glick Sportsmanship Award

Nausikaa Davis Highline Community College

Collegiate Coach of the Year Award

Yosh Uchida San Jose State University

Individual Results

Women 48kg
1. Ann Shiraishi (Elk Grove, Calif./Sacramento City College)
2. Tabitha Lum (San Jose, Calif./San Jose State University)
3. Ashley Broussard (Erath, La./Univ. of Louisiana-Lafayette)
4. Safiyyan Shabazz (Atlanta, Ga./Atlanta Technical)

Women 52kg
1. Anna Palmer (Colorado Springs, Colo./University of Colorado – Colorado Springs)
2. Jessica Elizalde (Scotia, N.Y./Schenectady College)
3. Whitney Lanfranco (College Station, Texas/Texas A&M)

Women 57kg
1. Marti Malloy (San Jose, Calif./San Jose State University)
2. Heather Swett (Medford, Mass./Salem State College)
3. Nausikaa Davis (Renton, Wash./Highline Community College)
4. Chi Fung Chan (Honolulu, Hawaii/University of Hawaii – Honolulu)
5. Andrea Alexander (West Point, N.Y./ West Point)

Women 63kg
1. Corinne Geier (San Jose, Calif./San Jose State University)
2. Sara Knutson (West Point, N.Y./West Point)
3. Kelly O'Donnell (Flagstaff, Calif./Northern Arizona University)
4. Janine Nakao (Marina, Calif./University of California – Davis)
5. Sarah Schultz (St. Cloud, Minn./St. Cloud State University)

Women 70kg
1. Tomoyo Yoshinaga (San Jose, Calif./San Jose State University)
2. Jane Lock (Colorado Springs, Colo./Pikes Peak Community College)
3. Cleo Grinberg (Tarrytown, N.Y./University of Albany)
4. Marissa Kobayashi (West Point, N.Y./West Point)
5. Samantha Bleier (Ames, Iowa/Iowa State University)

Women 78kg
1. Rhonda Morrell-Pruitt (Centerville, Ohio/University of Cincinnati)
2. Oronica Juarez (Fresno, Calif./California State – Fresno)
3. Sara Drane (West Point, N.Y./West Point)

Women +78 kg
1. Leyen Zulueta (Dayton, Ohio/Miami Jacobs College)
2. Sara Parson (Springdale, Ark./Northwest Arkansas Community College)

Men 60kg
1. Joshua Peacott (Mililani, Hawaii/University of Hawaii – Manoa)
2. Jared Higashi (San Jose, Calif./San Jose State University)
3. Scott Neuburger (Flagstaff, Ariz./Northern Arizona University)
4. Russell Hill (College Station, Texas/Texas A&M)
5. David Burris (West Point, N.Y./West Point)

Men 66kg
1. Felipe Novoa (Colorado Springs, Colo./University of Colorado – Colorado Springs)
2. Joshua O'Neil (Racine, Wis./Pikes Peak Community College)
3. Sean Lang (San Jose, Calif./San Jose State University)
4. Vincent Bryan (Dickinson/College of Mainland)
5. Jeff Fong (The Woodlands, Texas/Montgomery College)

Men 73kg
1. Eduardo Novoa (Colorado Springs, Colo./University of Colorado – Colorado Springs)
2. Michael Eldred (Fruitland, Idaho/Boise State University)
3. David Torres (San Jose, Calif./San Jose State University)
4. Steven Combs (Barlett, Tenn./University of Memphis)
5. Takeshi Young (San Jose, Calif./San Jose State University)

Men 81kg
1. Travis Stevens (San Jose, Calif./San Jose State University)
2. Yuko Sin (Glenville, N.Y./SUNY Albany)
3. Andrew Hung (San Jose, Calif./San Jose State University)
4. Iavov Kostadinov (Boulder, Colo./University of Colorado)
5. Ross Macbaisey (Atlanta, Ga./Emory University)

Men 90kg
1. Michael Lee (West Point, N.Y./West Point)
2. Atsushi Yoshinaga (Lombard, Calif./San Jose State University)
3. Michael Grossman (San Jose, Calif./San Jose State University)
4. Neil Coker (Bloomington, Indiana/Indiana University)
5. Freddie Lewis III (West Point, N.Y./West Point)

Men 100kg
1. Djamaldin Aliev (Greenwood Village, Colo./Metro State College – Denver)
2. Brent Carr (West Point, N.Y./West Point)
3. Alexis Martell (Belleville/Wayne County Community College)
4. Joseph Grabarczyk (Hammond, Ind./Ball State University)
5. Jonathan Fuller (College Station, Texas/Texas A&M)

Men +100kg
1. Konrad Bach (Largo/Duke University)
2. Mick Kaminsky (Mundelein, Ill./Northern Michigan University)
3. Arjun Ghosh (College Station, Texas/Texas A&M)
4. Tyler Barna (Omaha, Nebraska/University of Nebraska)

All entries must be submitted by May 1st, 2006.

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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