2024 EGN International Karate Tournament

EGN YOUTH SPORTS AND DEVELOPMENT Inc. is a non-profit organization with legal status 501c3 (under IRS code) and missioned to improve youth & young adults in their communities through the art of KARATE and other sports. Our goal is to strengthen the minds, bodies and hearts of the people in our communities through martial arts training. We are a firm believer that physical training leads to increased spiritual connection and strength through patience, which in turn leads to better decision-making from our children. It helps them to learn coordination, concentration, self-discipline, and social skills has shown the immeasurable benefits in academics, relationships between children of diverse backgrounds to create community-minded and open-minded individuals who value friendships, and authentic relationships with themselves and the communities they exist in.

This fun will be use for the Expenses to organize our tournament.

While our children are very passionate to compete and learn the sports and art of Karate, it comes with a very tangible cost; we are constantly fundraising to afford traveling nationally and internationally for competitions and all the expenses that come with that (hotel, food, transportation), tournament fees, membership fees, and tracksuits and gear costs. In the past, we have done our own fundraising activities such as World Finest Chocolate® and fundraiser Breakfast at “Applebees” restaurant every year but due to Covid-19 we’re not able to do it anymore. We’re currently hosting movie nights at our place and partner with Boon supply® fundraiser to help raise funds for our athletes to compete at championships, such as National, Continental and International level events.

The National Championship is our main focus for our athletes as it’s the best opportunity for them to test their skills they have been practicing all year long but also a great experience as they traveling with the competition Team, discover different parts of the country and meet with others who share the same sport! But not only, Junior athletes who are selected for the National Team, will represent the USA at the Pan American Championships and also at the World Championships.

Last year the 2023 USA Karate Nationals & US Team Trials was held in Richmond, VA 

Team EGN represented by 14 Athletes and 4 coaches won total of 17 medals 

7 Gold 

5 Silver 

5 Bronze 

3 athletes have been selected to the Junior TeamUSA that traveled to Santiago, Chile in August 20-27 to represent The United States Of America at the 2023 Pan-American Karate Championships. 

 

EGN COMPETITION TEAM RESULTS

In 2021, we traveled with our competition team including 23 athletes and 4 coaches to Chicago (IL) for the 2021 USA Karate National Championships & US Team Trials. Because this yearly event gathers over 2500 participants coming from all 50 States, it is the biggest championship in the country. The team competed for 4 days and had won a total of 53 medals and 6 athletes made the US Junior & Senior National Team!!

In April 2022, we were in Las Vegas, NV for the second biggest championship in the United States : the 2022 Junior International Cup & US Open. This event organized by the USA Karate National Federation (Olympic Committee member) gathers more than 3,500 competitors from around the World every year. Team EGN had 19 athletes (from 10 years old and up) and 3 coaches who had competed. We have won a total of 36 medals : 9 Gold, 13 Silver & 14 Bronze.

 

In May 2022, our Team traveled to Miami, FL for the American Karate Junior League (AJKL) which is a non-profit organization that aims to encourage and support young American Karate athletes to improve their sport and the access to high level training and competition within the United States and abroad. Every year, AJKL is organizing 4 to 5 tournaments in the country and creates a ranking based on the results at each tournament. At the end of the year, the best Junior athletes (10 to 17 years old) in each division are awarded and sponsored to represent the US at international events. At the AJKL Miami tournament, 12 athletes won 11 medals : 6 Gold, 4 Silver and 1 Bronze.  

 

The 2022 USA Karate National Championships & US Team Trials were held in Spokane, WA from June 30th to July 3rd. It includes the selection for the Jr. & Sr. US National Team members. Team EGN participated with 10 athletes and 5 coaches who won 14 medals : 6 Gold, 1 Silver and 7 Bronze. Four Junior athletes made the Team USA and three of them (4th one was forfeit due to injury) represented the United States of America at the 2023 Junior Pan American Championships in Mexico in August 2022. Two out of the three junior athletes stepped on the podium and brought back home a Silver medal for one and a Bronze medal for the other one. The Junior athlete who won the silver medal also qualified and represented the USA at the 2022 World Karate Championships in Turkey in October 2022. One Senior athlete won a bronze medal and qualified for the Senior US Team trials, held in New Jersey last February.