Several students from the East Bay Judo Institute in El Cerrito, CA, won national honors through their performances at the 2001 U.S. Judo Federation Jr. and Youth National Championships held 14-15 July 2001 in Monterey, CA. Jessica Hsieh, 16, went 2-1 before she had to withdraw from competition with an injury. The match she […]

COLORADO SPRINGS (June 8, 2001) – USA Judo has announced its team to the 2001 Pacific Rim Judo Championships to be held in Los Angeles, California on June 22-23 at the Gersten Pavillion, Loyola Marymount University. Included among the U.S. athletes is Sayaka Matsumoto, graduate of St. Mary?s College High School, and a member of […]

  COLORADO SPRINGS (May, 10, 2001) – USA Judo has selected the team that will represent the USA in the 2001 World Judo Championships to be held in Munich, Germany in July. The team consists of the number one ranked player in each weight category at the close of the National Championships last week in […]

  Stephanie Hata of El Cerrito and Sayaka Matsumoto of Richmond, both students of the East Bay Judo Institute, came away with gold medals at the 2001 U.S. Senior National Judo Championships in Orlando, Florida. Hata, 16, had to beat a gutsy Peggy Whitaker from New York twice to win her gold medal. In her […]

This is a test of the timetable plugin. It’s supposed to show a timetable similar to the one here, but right now, it’s just showing the filter tab navigations (as configured) but the timetable isn’t displayed. It looks like the plugin javascript isn’t being loaded for some reason.  No errors on server side, but the […]

  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (November 1, 2001) – The Director of Development for USA Judo, Mr. Tommy Dyer, has announced the team that will represent the USA in the 2001 Pan American Judo Union Senior Championships, to be held in Cordoba, Argentina on November 19th & 20th. Team members were selected from the #1 ranked […]

  Editor’s Note: Many of our members at EBJI knew that Professor Takeuchi had been visiting for the year, but many people did not know of exactly what kind of person he was, and what he did with his time when he was not at Judo. Indeed, as described below, Professor Takeuchi is a gentleman […]