In the intermediate division, Vazrik Chiloyan '11's team, including Yves Matton G and Powers, won first place in Team Kumite. Vazrik also won first place in Men's Kumite 18-22 and Men's Kata 18-22, as well as third place in Grand Champion Kumite, coming in just behind Fidkowski. Powers won first place in Women's Intermediate Kumite 18-22 and third place in Kata 18-22. Yves Matton placed second in Kata 18-22. In the beginner division, Alexander P. Clayton '13 and Emily K. Rosser '12 won second and third place, respectively, in Individual Kata 18-22, and a team of Nathan W. Brei 11, Clayton, and Julian Lemus '13 won second place in Team Kata (photo: Robin Briscoe).

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Sport TaeKwonDo - World University Games! July 1-12, 2009
After qualifying for the national team at the National Collegiate Taekwondo Championships in March, four members of the MIT Sport Taekwondo Club, Karolina Corin, Becca Hung, Alicia Zhou, and Bobby Ren, represented the US at the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade, Serbia. The Universiade is an event modeled on the Olympics for university athletes. This year's games featured over 10,000 athletes competing in 15 sports, of which Taekwondo was one. Corin, Hung, and Zhou competed as a women's triple, and Ren and Zhou competed as a mixed pair. Corin, Hung, and Zhou advanced to the semifinals and finished ninth overall, while Ren and Zhou placed 11th.

Triathlon - National Championship! April, 2009
As the frenzy of CPW swept campus for four days, the MIT Triathlon club sent eight athletes to the USA Triathlon Collegiate Nationals last week, held in Lubbock, Texas. Facing competition from the best Triathlon clubs in the nation, the male team averaged 2:45 in the race, which consists of a mile swim, a 25 mile bike, and a 6.2 mile run. The men's team was led by Rastislav Racz '10 with a 2:32 performance. The three-athlete strong female team finished with an average of 3:04. Highlights for the team included scorching burns from the unforgiving Texas sun, Jana Marjanovic '10 and Lindsey Holland '10 swimming in 53 degree water without a wetsuit, and Zuzana Trnovcova '09 posting the 11th best time in the bike-leg out of all female athletes (she finished 43rd out of 313 female overall).

Badminton - National Collegiate! March 20-22, 2009
The MIT Badminton Club travelled to Irvine College in California to compete in the National Collegiate. The club has been the strongest team in the northeast area for the past two years. Despite stiff competition, team members Arjun Mehta, Xin Wang and Heymian Wong all advanced to the second round of competition.

Sport TaeKwonDo - National Champions! March 21-22, 2009
This past Spring, the Sport Taekwondo traveled to Brown University to compete at the 34th Collegiate Taekwondo Nationals. The competition was fierce and even bigger than last year with over 400 competitors, both the experienced and newcomers. The club brought a total of forty competitors, capturing first place overall by 2 points despite being outnumbered by Brown, which brought sixty-four competitors. Starting off the weekend was the poomsae (forms) competition at all belt levels. In most of the divisions where the team had competitors, at least one person placed. The second day highlighted both color and black belt sparring, where once again, MIT placed in most divisions. In women's red belt featherweight, MIT swept 1-2 and both third places! Black belt sparring came next. Competitors were strong and stood well on their own against athletes who had more sparring experience and years of training. Team Captains Christopher J. Han and Corinna Hui participated in their first national competition at the black belt level since receiving their black belts this past December. Han easily won his first match by point gap and overall performed very well fighting against top-caliber players. Hui also fought well, earning bronze in the women's lightweight division.

Cycling - National Road Champions! April 26-27, 2008
The MIT Cycling Team won the 2008 Division II national road racing championships after a weekend of exceptional performances by its men’s and women’s teams in Fort Collins, CO. At the USA Cycling Collegiate National Championships, held May 9-11, MIT Cycling seized an early lead in the opening team time trial and built their advantage all weekend long to take a surprise victory.
The women’s team scored first with a superb win in Friday’s team time trial. Martha Buckley, Yuri Matsumoto, Zuzka Trnovcova and Sonya Cates powered through a flat and windy course, covering 25 kilometers in 29 minutes and 51 seconds to take the win by 8 seconds over their closest rivals. Later that day, the men’s team of Jason Sears, Eric Edlund, Seth Behrends and Issao Fujiwara beat a host of strong competitors to finish 4th in the men’s TTT in 25 minutes and 10 seconds.
MIT’s women added to their laurels over Saturday’s 51-mile road race course, which featured a combination of flat terrain exposed to the wind and difficult power climbs. Buckley finished a strong 3rd, Matsumoto came in 10th and Cates took 19th. In the men’s race, Edlund took 13th in the field sprint while Fujiwara came in 57th. With these strong finishes, the Engineers were still ahead coming into Sunday’s flat, fast, and technical criterium race, and once again MIT’s women turned in great performances. Matsumoto unleashed her devastating sprint, which had earned her the Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference Division II women’s championship only two weeks before, to finish 6th. Buckley came in two spots behind in 8th and Cates finished only a few seconds behind the day’s race leaders, in 27th. In the 75-minute men’s race, Sears sprinted to an outstanding 4th, beating his own 7th place from last year’s nationals criterium. A veteran of many collegiate cycling championships on road and track, Sears made sure he was part of the day’s key breakaway group that finished ahead of the main field. Edlund, Fujiwara and Behrends all finished in the main pack, taking 43rd, 49th and 54th, respectively.
When all the points were tallied, MIT had ended its stunning weekend with 395 points, beating Dartmouth’s364 points to take first place among Division II schools across the country. Individually Buckley finished 4th, Matsumoto 8th, and Cates 25th in the women’s omnium, while Edlund came in 22nd among the men’s racers.

Cycling - Conference Champions! April 26-27, 2008
With more than 30 riders from MIT competing in the Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference Road Championships, MIT Cycling presented by FXDD claimed the Division II Overall Season Championship. In addition to the team’s overall success for the weekend, Yuri Matsumoto secured 3rd in the overall season standings for the women’s A category, and 1st in Division II, taking home the yellow jersey of the Series Leader (right). Three more MIT riders placed second 2nd in Division II for their respective categories, Martha Buckley in women’s A, Zuzka Trnovcova in women’s B and Issao Fujiwara in men’s B. MIT will be sending 3 women and 4 men to Boulder, Colorado for the USA Cycling Collegiate National Road Championships, which will be held May 9-11. Matsumoto, Buckley and Trnovcova will represent MIT’s women’s team, while Jason Sears, Edlund, Fujiwara and Seth Behrends will represent MIT’s men’s team.

Sport Taekwondo - National Champions! April 25-26, 2008
The Sport Taekwondo club went to Stanford University to compete at Collegiate Nationals. The competition was huge with 300 competitors and fierce with both experienced and newcomers. The club brought a total of thirty-seven competitors (six alumni and thirty-one students), the largest team in attendance. Starting off the weekend was poomsae (forms) competition in all belt levels. In most of the divisions where the team had competitors, at least one person placed. Ending the day was color belt sparring. Once again, the team placed most of the colored belts. Some even swept their divisions! The green-blue belt girls placed 1-2-3 in featherweight! The next day, the competition was intense with black belt sparring. Competitors were strong and stood well on their own against athletes who had more sparring experience and years of training. In particular, Erica Chan '07, Alicia Zhou '06, and Nicole Teague '10 placed third, second, and third, respectively in their weight divisions! They will continue and compete at Team Trials, where medalists have a chance to represent the US in the World University Taekwondo Championships. In the end, MIT won first place in novice division, followed by a third place win in championship division. In the overall division, MIT secured first place!

Shotokan Karate - April 19, 2008
The MIT Shotokan Karate Team won three awards at the Tournament at Tufts University, as well as three recognitions. Kristina Brown (junior, course 8) won 1st place in intermediate women's sparring. Piotr Fidkowski (junior, course 16) won 2nd place in intermediate men's kata. Michael Snella (senior, course 8 and 6) won 3rd place in beginner's men's sparring. Brian Neltner was awarded his Class C Teaching Certification. Brian Neltner and Matthew Peddie were recognized for leadership.

Rowing Tournament - April, 2008
14 members of the MIT Rowing Club traveled to Philadelphia to compete in the Wharton Sprints, a regatta hosted by the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. MIT Rowing Club fielded a men's eight, women's four and mixed eight in competition against crews from Wharton and Yale over a 1000m course on the Schuylkill River. All rowers returned home with gold medals following victories by the men's eight and the mixed eight. The rowers enjoyed the thrill that comes with a close victory, and are excited for their upcoming races later this month. Charles Moore G sums up his experience: "the men’s 8 race may be responsible for the most painful three minutes of my life -- I can't wait to face off against Harvard [in two weeks at the World Graduate Rowing Championships here on the Charles River]”." Postdoc Mark Ashdown summed up the weekend: "I enjoy competing, and especially winning - it makes all those 6am training sessions seem worthwhile."

Women's Waterpolo Tournament - March 1-2, 2008
The 14th ranked Engineers came out of their first tournament at Bates College this past weekend undefeated with wins over Wellesley College, Bates College, Boston University, and Bowdoin College. Rookie Carrie DeBoer split her time in the goal and in the field and still managed to lead the team with 9 goals over the course of the weekend. MIT outscored their opponents 47-18. Captain Analiese DiConti also had her debut in goal, allowing only 3 goals in her 6 quarters in the cage and tallying 8 goals on offense. Set Defenders Kristen Cook and Kellie Young proved tremendous defensive players, keeping the opponents’ whole sets almost scoreless throughout the weekend and tallying 8 and 6 goals of their own, respectively. Blair Brettmann out swam the opponents, taking advantage of many opportunities in front of the cage, scoring 8 times. Lisa Tacoronte also scored 6 goals, and Rachel Price scored her second goal as an Engineer. MIT next faces no. 20 Boston College on Thursday March 13 at 6pm in the Z center for rights to the top seed in the North Atlantic Division.

Cycling - December, 2008
USA Cycling recognized Jason Sears as a recipient of the annual John Stenner Collegiate Cycling Scholarship for his outstanding academic achievements, athletic accomplishments and service to the community with an emphasis on collegiate team involvement and leadership. Jason is a graduate student at MIT in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and secretary of the MIT Cycling Team. Jason captured an overall national title at the 2007 USA Cycling Collegiate Track National Championships and finished seventh in the criterium at the collegiate road national championships. Throughout the season, he also claimed eight top-five finishes in various regional and collegiate events throughout the U.S.

The MIT Cycling Team placed 2nd at the division II national cyclocross championships in Kansas City. Eric Edlund (G), Bill Palm (G), Eli Papa (G), Jason Sears (G), Caitlin Bever (G), Ilana Brito (G), Sonya Cates (G) and Natalia Gardiol (G) formed the MIT team.

Triathlon - 2006-2007 Season Wrap up
Kate D'Epagnier, a graduate student in MIT's department of Mechanical Engineering, was successful as a triathlon age group competitor for women 20-24 in the Summer 2006 season. In the Old Colony International distancetriathlon she received second place in her age group with a time of 2:33:28, and in the Greater Lowell Triathlon she received first place in her age group. In the 2007 season, she placed third for females 25-29 in the Mooseman International Distance triathlon. Kate enjoys leading her team's swimming workouts and is looking forward to competing in her first ironman distance triathlon at Lake Placid later this summer.

After racing and training with the MIT triathlon team for two years and an intense summer of racing for MIT at local sprint races (2006), Pete Mayer tackled his first iron-distance event, taking 3rd place in his age group. (ChesapeakeMan Ultradistance Triathlon, 9/30/06) Two weeks later, he qualified for the 2007 Boston Marathon with a time of 3:09:16 (Bay State Marathon, 10/15/07). Pete continues to race locally, and recently placed second in his age group at the Ashland Lions International Distance Triathlon (6/17/07).

Martha Buckley came in 1st overall for women in the Northeast Collegiate Triathlon Conference championship 2006 (Colby Triathlon) - in the same race she took 3rd overall for women. She also took 2nd in the Holliston Lions Triathlon, 2006.

In the July 8, 2007, Hollison triathlon race, Zuzana Trnovcova placed third in her age group, Lindsey Holland placed second in her age group (her first triathlon ever!), and Kathryn D'Epagnier placed first in her age group.

Badminton - May, 2007
The MIT Badminton Club won first place in the NorthEast Inter-Collegiate Badminton Leagueafter winning 9 out of 10 games this season. The team played very hard against Harvard, BU, Babson and Brandeis Universities to become the 2006-2007 Champions. The last time MIT had won first place in the league was in 2003, so it was very exciting for the team to finally clench the title again in 4 years.

Cycling - April 30, 2007
The MIT cycling team returned from the Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference's Championships weekend with the season team omnium title for Division II, defending its victory from the previous year. The omnium includes points earned during the entire two months of the collegiate road season across the eight categories of racing, including team and individual time trials, road races, criteriums, and circuits. MIT beat Yale and Dartmouth for the top honors. The US Military Academy at Westpoint and Princeton rounded out the top five teams of the division.

In addition to the team omnium, several racers won personal season omnium titles. Zuzka Trnovcova won the women's C, and Yuri Matsumoto took second in the women's B, both in their first year of road racing. Nick Loomis captured second in the men's D category.

The championship races had challenges for climbers and sprinters alike. The road race featured 3,000 feet of climbing per loop through the Hudson River Valley. Martha Buckley proved to be an unrelenting climber, taking fourth after more than 64 miles of brutal hills. The men's B time trial squad made short work of the flat TTT course, working together in tight form to win its race. The criterium favored sprinters with an open four-corner course. A lead-out from Issao Fujiwara helped Nick Loomis place second in the men's D with Fujiwara right behind in third. Natalia Gardiol sprinted into fourth in the women's B. AJ Schrauth powered through to a fourth-place finish in the mens' B criterium after an hour of intense racing. The team came in a close second for the weekend overall.

Korean Karate - April 21, 2007
The MIT Korean Karate Club took 5 competitors to the World Tae Kwon Do North-East Regional Tournament, which took place in Cole's Auditorium in NYU. Alice Li '10 won first place in Forms and second in Free Style in the Women's Yellow Belt Division; Grace Yuen '09 won first place in Forms and third in Free Style in the Women's Green Belt Division; Igor Ginzburg G came in third in Forms and third in Free Style in the Men's First Dan Division; Poh Lim A came in second in Forms and second in Free Style in the Men's Fifth Dan Division.

Women's Water Polo - April 14-15, 2007
The No. 4 ranked Engineers (14-0) qualified for Club Nationals for the third straight year last month, by defeating Boston College, 6-5, in the title game.

After rallying from a three goal deficit, the Eagles almost tied the game with just twenty seconds left. However, co-captain Kelly Cavazos '07 blocked the would-be-game-tying shot to ensure MIT's victory.

"When we gained possession of the ball with six seconds left on the game clock, I was on such a high," said co-captain Lindsey Sheehan '07. "The win just meant so much more because of the challenges we've faced this year."

MIT's team effort really shone through, as six different women contributed points. Co-captain Christi Winiarz '07, Analiese DiConti '10, Kristen Cook G, Aditi Nagaraj '10, Lisa Tacoronte '10, and Sheehan each put a point on the board. Cavazos also contributed with a tournament high 13 saves which earned her "Player of the Week" for the league.

En route to the title game, MIT toppled Wellesley, 9-1, Bates, 11-2, and Boston University, 12-1.

Winiarz was the leading scorer for the weekend tallying 13 of MIT's 39 goals. Cook and DiConti also contributed seven goals apiece.

Sport Taekwondo - March 30, 2007
Over the weekend of March 30, the MIT sport taekwondo team continued its ongoing success at the National Collegiate Taekwondo Championships in College Station, Texas. This year's championships, held on the home turf of perennial rival Texas A&M University, provided several taekwondo team newcomers the opportunity to meet unknown competitors, while allowing seasoned members the opportunity to match wits with some of the nation's top athletes. By the end of the two-day event, the team had captured bronze medals in the novice (colored belt) and championship (black belt) divisions, claimed bronze in overall, and won some twenty individual awards. Most impressively, four MIT black belts - Captain John T. Wong G, Captain Erica Y. Chan '08, Alicia Zhou `07 and Sharon A. Lawrence '08 - gained the right to compete for a chance to represent the United States at the World University Games in Bangkok, Thailand.

Badminton - March 24, 2007
On the weekend of March 24, the badminton club took a team of eight students to represent MIT at the 2007 National Collegiate Badminton Championships, held at the University of California, Berkeley. Team member Lars Boyde `09 entered the championship without a rank and was up against approximately 63 other competitors in the men's singles bracket. He defeated the two players who were ranked fourth and fifth in the tournament to claim the bronze medal. The badminton team ranked ninth out of the 23 participating schools.