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By Technology Review

Tae Kwon Do Club Packs a Punch

Less than a year after the Institute granted MITs Sport Tae Kwon Do Club official club status, the team has won a national tournament. At the 29th National Collegiate Tae Kwon Do Association Championship held last spring in Bridgeport, CT, 32 out of 37 team members walked away with medals. As if that werent enough, the entire team took first in the combined overall division, earning more than twice as many points as the second-place team from Brown University.

It was just amazing for us, says Tim Kreider 04, the clubs president at the time of the competition. Given the MIT teams margin of victory, it was no surprise when head instructor Daniel Chuang was recognized with the associations Coach of the Year Award. Chuang has been a driving force behind the club, which he established informally with Christina Park 02, SM 03, in the fall of 2000. Park, who is also one of the clubs coaches, placed first at the National Collegiate Team Trials held earlier in the year and as a result will represent the United States in the 2004 World University Tae Kwon Do Championships in Patras, Greece. And speaking of Greece, MIT Sport Tae Kwon Do alumnus and coach Chinedum Osuji, PhD 03, will spar for Trinidad and Tobago at the Olympics this summer. Not bad for a club thats still a little wet behind the ears.