Master Khechen Tae Kwon-Do Association hosts third annual Williamsville Inter-School tourney

More than 250 students from the Master Khechen Tae Kwon-Do Association gathered on April 12 to compete in the third annual Master Khechen School of Tae Kwon-Do Williamsville Inter-School Tournament. Students ranging in age from three (Lil' Dragons) to six years (champions) to nine years (juniors) to 50 and over adults competed in forms, sparring and weapons divisions across all age groups and belt levels.

The Williamsville school students train under head instructor Mr. Christopher D. Schiele, third-degree black belt and 2007 U.S. Open Martial Arts Tournament Grand Champion, among other U.S. titles.

Results

David Abelson, Karin Baker, Cole Beiter (first, forms; third, sparring), Quinn Beiter (first, forms; first, sparring; second, weapons: nunchuku), Samuel Bonk, Julia Boyle (first, forms; second, sparring; third, weapons: bo staff); Rachel Brooks, Charlie Campanella (first, sparring), Kristina Campione, Anthony Campione (first, forms; first, sparring), Dominic Campione (second, forms), Joseph Catalano, Michael Cheklov, Ian Cherico (third, forms), Peter Cherico (third, forms; second, sparring; first, weapons: sword), Nayda Colon (third, forms; third, sparring), Ryan Colon (third, forms; third, sparring), Ryan Cooper, Adam Curcio, Rami Daham, Raffaele D'Avanzato (second, forms), Mitchel Dikerman, Samuel Dikerman, Brett Fahrenholtz, Douglas Fahrenholtz, Waylan Frears, Brayden Fuller, Ryan Fuller, Carolynn Garas (third, forms), Danielle Garas (first, forms; third, sparring), Grace Garas (third, sparring), Laura Garas (third, sparring), Paul Garas (third, sparring; first, weapons: sword), Jacob Glofka, Maxwell Graves, Dyllan Gross (second, forms; second, weapons), Michael Hayek, Evan Heerdt (third, forms), Olivia Heerdt (third, forms; third, sparring), Sadat Khan, Kristine Khechen (second, sparring), Ara Kim (first, forms; second, sparring), Michelle Kirk (second, forms; first, sparring), Emma Knauer (third, forms; second, sparring), Robert Kolenko (first forms; third, sparring), Marianna Kowalewski (second, forms; third, sparring), Alfredo Longo (first, forms; first, sparring), Jacob Mackowiak, Rachel Mackowiak, Emma McGrath, Alicia McManus (second, forms; first, sparring), Mary McManus, Nicole Mc- Manus, Nathan Mutka (second, forms; third, sparring; first, weapons: bo staff), Joseph Nasr (second, forms; third, sparring), Julian Payne (first, forms; first, sparring), Madeline Payne, Kyle Phelps, Mehmood Quazi (third, forms; second, sparring; first, weapons: kama), Alex Raymond (second, weapons: bo staff), Dean Robbins, Jamie Robinson, Shane Rogers, Megan Ruh, Nathan Ruh, Andrew Salem (second, forms; second, sparring), Kristy Schabert, Jodie Scherrer (second, forms; second, sparring), Briana Senear, Connor Shelby, Sammy Snell, Danielle Stefanie, David Szykowny, Erika Taylor (first, forms; third, sparring), Maggie Weichert (first, forms), Isabella Whalen, Joseph Whalen, Joseph Whalen, Sr. (second, forms; third, sparring), Mydasia Woods and Harrison Zanghi.