Pictured above are members of Vanderbilt's Tae Kwon Do team which recently carted off 22 trophies at the Music City Tae Kwon Do tournament (Photo by Steve Presneil)
Tae Kwon Do cleans up in Vol St. tourney
Feet flying, the Vanderbilt Tae Kwon Do team flew into the 1962 Volunteer State Championships at Belmont College and landed with an outstanding over-all team performance. Although no team scoring was kept, the Commodores finished third place or higher in 19 different events. Included in that number were seven first places.
Individuals finished as follows:
-- Team coach Irv Rubenstein, first place in black belt forms and first place in black
belt lightweight sparring.
-- Brad Smith. third place in black belt heavyweight sparring.
.. Nancy Sherbourne, thirst place in women's black belt sparring.
_- Pam Franks. first place in women's red belt sparring.
-- Wally Paris, second place in red belt heavyweight sparring.
-- Lucy Wilson, first place in women's green belt sparring and third place in green belt form.
-- Kristy Koch, second place in women's green belt sparring and first place in green belt form.
.. Laura Temple, third place in women's green belt sparring.
-- Joe Mim, first place its green belt lightweight sparring and first place in green belt form.
-. V ance Carter, third place in green belt, lightweight sparring.
.. Tony Hong, second place in yellow belt form.
-- Mart Brown, second place in yellow bel t lightweight sparring,
-- Mark Allen, third place in yellow belt heavyweight sparring.
.- Cindy Freeman, second place in women's white belt sparring.
._ Paul Jarrett. second place in white belt form.
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Vanderbilt's Tae Kwon.Do team, under the director ofseventh-degree black belt T. W. Haw, won 22 trophies recently at the Music City Tae Kwon Do tournamen. The tournament was attended mainly by Nashville teeams but teams from as far away as Florida also came, in all, 225 people competed.
Irv Rubenstein, an assistant instructor, placed first in blackbelt form and sparring while Brad Smith was first in heavyweight blackbelt sparring Kristi Koch placed first in women's red belt sparring and second in form, Greg Oliver placed first in green-belt sparring while Jim Werner was third in green-belt heavyweight sparring. Laura Temple captured first place in women's green-belt sparring. .
At the yellow-belt level, Jack Morris was. second in sparring, Brian Phillips, ;was second in heavyweight sparring: Rugs Goush was first in form and Frank Lacker third in from.. Joyce Jacobs was first in women's yellow-belt sparing and Donice Rubenstein placed first in women's yellow-belt form;
At the white-belt level . Martha Glenn was first in women's sparring. JoAnn Ray was first in women's form. Valerie Justis was second in form, and Nora Galil was third in forms. Among this male white-belts, Greg Hayes was first in heavyweight sparring, David Jordan was second in heavyweight sparring. Richard Winston was third in heavyweight sparring aad Robert Bradshaw was third in form.