DC Turnbull’s Team sparkles at Nationals
by Special to the Herald
July 21 2012 at 0920 | 135 views | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend | print
SANFORD — DC Turnbull’s Martial Arts team recently returned from Ft. Lauderdale where they participated in the AAU National TaeKwonDo Championships.

The team brought home a total of 13 medals, winning four Gold, four Silver and five Bronze, to take National Titles in Forms and Point Sparring competitions.

Individual results are as follows:

FORMS

* Elise Gaines - Gold

* Iris Johnson - Gold

* Joel Perez-Rios - Gold

* Tommy Robertson - Silver

* Ava Eckstein-Schoemann - Bronze

* Geoffrey Vogel - Bronze

POINT SPARRING

* CJ Vickers - Gold

* Angela Vazquez - Silver

* Julianne Laird - Silver

* Megan Dahlberg – Silver

* Connor Robertson - Bronze

* Bekah Stockton - Bronze

* Geoffrey Vogel - Bronze

Two of the teams Officials and Head Instructors also received an upgrade as Officials.

CJ Vickers, was promoted to Class “A” and Ginger Allen was promoted to Class “AA”, becoming one of only five women in the country to receive the highest rank that can be achieved in the AAU Officiating Program.

Both team members, along with David Turnbull have been invited to Officiate at this year’s AAU National Team Trials in September of this year.

The Championship team is led by Instructor/AAU “AA” Official and Coach David Turnbull along with AAU Official and Head Coach Wendi Turnbull.

For more information, along with class times and locations go to www.dcturnbullsmartialarts.com; email David Turnbull at ohjang@aol.com; or call 321-356-9299.