Congratulations to our Team TAYA’s collective efforts in bringing home a medal tally of 11 Golds, 9 Silvers and 13 Bronzes = 33 medals at the NSW State Championships this weekend earning us No 2 Ranking in the 33 Club Leaderboard results.
Fantastic results achieved despite the odds. Very happy and proud to see our team rising up to the challenges, showing strong camaraderie, unity and supporting each other. Lots of insights gained from this competition to help improve the game, court management, technical skills and tactical prowess.
Congratulations also to our Junior Athlete Chelsea Gomez for being awarded the Best Overall Female Athlete.
A great back-to-back performance after the Gold Coast Open last week.
Thank you to our athletes, coaches, black belts, parents for your dedication, encouragement and support - Well done Team TAYA!!!
Congratulations to Team TAYA for a strong performance at the Gold Coast Open with a medal tally of: 9 Golds, 8 Silvers, 11 Bronzes = 28 medals resulting in ranking of 3rd in sparring and 7th overall including poomsae on the Club Leaderboard of 88 clubs. A fantastic result at our first competion for the year to open the 2024 competition season for us.
Well done to everyone!!!
Thank you to our Athletes for giving your best and your hard work, our Coaches for your guidance and dedication and to our parents for your support and encouragement. Fantastic team spirit and camaraderie - thank you for supporting each other.
Let’s take inspiration from this with lessons learned to improve and prepare for the NSW State Championships next weekend.
Big thanks to Carlos Lakerdis and all support staff for another successful event - see you again next year at 2025 Gold Coast 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.
2024 US Open
Details
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.
ATNSW Training Camp with Olympic Champion Dongmin Cha
Details
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.
