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5 Team TAYA Athletes have travelled to Reno, Nevada to compete at the prestigious US Open on 16-18 February 2024.

Our Seniors, Juniors and Cadet athletes fought their best but unfortunately bowed down to more tactical, superior athletes on their preliminary and R16 matches, results as follows:
 
Aarav Kadam, Cadet -45kg Lost to USA in R32 S1: 5-12, S2: 0-14
Chelsea Gomez, Junior -44kg Lost to USA in R16 S1: 5-10, S2: 7-10
Atharva Pansare, Junior -55kg Lost to USA in R32 S1: 1-11, S2: 3-7
Sofia Querubin, Senior -49 kg Won R32 in straight sets both in PTG vs Puerto Rico S1: W17-5, S2: W 13-1 and then Lost to No 2 seed and top AUS Athlete in R16 S1: 1-6, S2: 1-8 (had 5 gamgeoms)
Aaditya Kadam, Senior -54kg Lost to AUS in R32 S1: 1-13, S2: 3-7
 
This North American tour has given our Team TAYA Athletes valuable lessons specifically on tactical/strategic applications, the need to follow-up initial attack and counterattack, time management, attention lapses, speed, timing, distancing, defence work and in many more aspects which will help improve their game, continue to build technical skills and tactical applications against stronger more experienced opponents, strengthen resilience, confidence and court management.
 
Thank you to Coach Ms Abby for all your hard work, dedication, brilliant coaching, support and guidance throughout this North American tour and for looking after our team and your wonderful contribution as one of the Australian National Pathways Team Coaches.
 
Onwards and Upwards from here……
 
Proud of all their efforts.
 
Congratulations to the rest of the Australian Team for their results at the US Open. 
 
 
   
   
 
Five of our Team TAYA Senior, Junior and Cadet Athletes have travelled to Vancouver, Canada to compete at the 2024 Canada Open G2 event:
Sofia Querubin - Senior -49kg
Aaditya Kadam - Senior -54kg
Atharva Pansare - Junior -55kg
Chelsea Gomez -Junior -44kg
Aarav Kadam - Cadet -45kg
 
Team TAYA had fantastic results on Day 2 of the 2024 Canada Open with Atharva and Chelsea getting two Bronze Medals, both losing to the eventual Gold Medallists. Congratulations to Atharva and Chelsea for a very good outcome at this G2 event. A great start to the two-week North American Tour.
 
Well done also to our Aarav on his first international competition experience with a very close preliminary match against the eventual Bronze Medallist.
Aarav fought toe-to-toe against a more experience opponent pushing the match to a 3rd and deciding round and only lost by a small margin.
 
Day 3 saw Sofia and Aaditya fought tough opponents with very close matches in the preliminaries, unfortunately both losing in the 3rd round (Sofia to the eventual Gold Medallist) but gained many lessons and insights from the tournament that will help improve their game. They are currently recovering to reset and bounce back for the US Open G2 event in Reno, Nevada next weekend.
 
A big thank you to our Coach Ms Abby for your brilliant coaching, dedication and guidance to bring the best performances from our Team TAYA Athletes and as Coach for the Australian National Pathways Team.
 
Sofia and Atharva were selected as members of the Australian National Pathways Team for the 2024 North American Tour along with Coach Ms Abby.
Aaditya, Chelsea and Aarav represented TAYA Taekwondo at the event.
 
Congratulations to all Australian Seniors, Juniors, Cadets and all the hardworking Coaches for the outstanding results at the Canada Open.
 
 

TAWEESILP TRAINING CAMP 16-20 January 2024

21 of our Team TAYA Red and Black Belt athletes in cadets, junior and senior divisions have attended the recent Taweesilp Training Camp held at Prestons NSW hosted by Martial Arts Spirit Club where over 110 athletes across Australia participated in the gruelling day and night 2 hour sessions run over 5 days from 16-20 January 2024.  The training camp was facilitated by world renowned Thailand Coach Khamnuan (Khem) Taweesilp. It was great for 5 of our Black Belts to be reunited with him and his 3 athletes after the two-week training camp at Taweesilp Taekwondo Club in Thailand last 31 January to 15 February 2023 accompanied by Coach Ms Abby Sangalang. 

Our athletes have adapted, learned and expanded their technical skills, continuous development and preparations which would set them up well for the several events scheduled in 2024 particularly the upcoming Canada Open and US Open in February and the Australian Junior World Championship Team Selections in June. They have shown tenacity and have risen to the physical and mental challenges at the camp. Many of them are developing athletes who experienced this level of high performance training and are now aware of what needs to be done to be on top of their game. We are excited to see when they apply all of the techniques they learned at the training camp. Our athletes who attended the training camp were:

Seniors - Sofia Querubin, Aaditya Kadam

Juniors - Atharva Pansare, Joshua Lo, Chelsea Gomez, Diego Querubin, Eva De Guzman, Ayva Soteriou, Liana Thunyin

Cadets – Jade Macgowan, Mia Er, Vasili Soteriou, Ethan De Guzman, Aarav Kadam, Ayaan Shetty, Lachlan Macgowan, Zara Lo, Heleni Moa, Kiera Malicdem, Kiaan Para, Aarav Menezes 

TAWEESILP DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR 21 January 2024

4 of our Team TAYA Yellow, Blue and Red Belt athletes in youth and cadet divisions also participated at the Taweesilp Development Seminar held at the same venue on 21 January 2024 capping the 6-day event. The seminar has given them a glimpse of basic technical skills that would assist with their growth and development. Our athletes who attended the development seminar were:

Cadet – Ava Boshell

Youths – Max Wang, Jonathan Boshell, Layla Malicdem

 

   

 

 

 

Team TAYA attended the 27-28 January 2024 ATNSW Development Training Camp run by Olympic Champion Dongmin Cha, learned a lot and had so much fun.

  

Our 5 Team TAYA PPP Athletes (Sofia Querubin, Atharva Pansare, Joshua Lo, Chelsea Gomez and Diego Querubin) have begun the 2024 Taekwondo Season attending the recent AT PPP National Training Camp at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra ACT from 9-11 January 2024.

 

It was a great start to the year and will assist with their preparations for an exciting 2024 with international, national, state and local events lined up including the much awaited World Junior Championships Australian Team Selection Event in the middle of the year. Well done Team TAYA!!!