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Competitions

Competitions

We attend 1-2 ACATA tournaments every year, usually including one hosted at UNC Chapel Hill in the fall.

Poomsae format:

  • 3 person mixed gender teams

  • Beginner, Intermediate, Elite divisions

 

Sparring format:

  • 2-3 person same gender teams

  • Beginner division:

    • no headshots

  • Intermediate division:

    • ​USAT Junior Sparring Rules (reduced headshot strength)

  • Elite division

Participating Schools:

American University

Liberty University

UNC Chapel Hill

US Naval Academy

UVA

Virginia Tech

ACATA (Atlantic Collegiate Alliance of Taekwondo)
ECTC (Eastern Collegiate Taekwondo Conference)

We attend 2-3 ECTC tournaments every year, usually including those hosted at Brown University in the fall and Princeton University in the spring.

Poomsae format:

  • Color belts:

    • 3-person mixed-gender teams

    • yellow, green, blue, and red belt divisions by gender

  • Black belts:

    • 3-person mixed-gender teams

Sparring format:

  • 3-person same-gender teams: one lightweight, one middleweight, one heavyweight

  • C team:

    • White to Green belts​

    • no headshots

    • 3 rounds of 60 seconds

    • hand-scoring

  • B team:

    • Green to Red belts​

    • USAT Junior Sparring Rules (reduced headshot strength)

    • 3 rounds of 90 seconds

    • electronic scoring

  • A team:

    • Blue to Black belts​

    • 3 rounds of 90-120 seconds

    • electronic scoring

Participating Schools:

Binghamton University​

Boston University​

Brown University​

Columbia University​

Cornell University​

Dartmouth College​

Duke University​

Harvard University​

Johns Hopkins University​

Lehigh​

Liberty​

Massachusetts Institute of Technology​

Northeastern University ​

New York University​

Ohio State University​

Pennsylvania State University​

Princeton University​

Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute​

Rutgers University​

Stony Brook University​

SUNY Empire State College​

University at Albany, SUNY​

University at Cortland, SUNY​

Temple University​

Tufts University​

United States Military Academy​

University of Connecticut ​

University of Maryland Baltimore County​

University of Michigan ​

University of Pennsylvania ​

University of Vermont ​

Villanova University ​

Yale University

NCTA (National Collegiate Taekwondo Association)

Every spring, we select a smaller team of athletes to compete at the Collegiate National Championships.

Poomsae format:

  • WT style:

    • individual

    • yellow, green, ​blue, red, and black belt divisions by gender

Sparring format:

  • individual

  • same gender

  • Color belts:

    • 4 weight divisions​

    • 3 rounds of 1.5 minutes, including 30 seconds rest between each round

  • ​Black belts:

    • WT/Olympic rules:

      • 4 weight divisions​

      • 3 rounds of 2 minutes, including 1 minute rest between each round

Participating Schools:

American University

Brown University

Columbia University

Iowa Central Community College

MIT

New York University

Princeton University

Stanford University

US Military Academy

UC Berkeley

UC Davis

UC San Diego

UT Austin

University of Vermont

University of Washington

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Past Competitions

2025-2026

Thank you to our exec board for their hard work in training, planning logistics, and organizing our team to attend and compete in these events! Thank you to our coach, Master Nick Yates, for his dedication throughout team practices and competitions!

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NCTA Nationals 2026

We are so proud of all 19 of our amazing club members and our wonderful volunteers who represented Duke at Collegiate Nationals!

NCTA Poomsae 

Bomin Kim | BRONZE | Black Belt

Krystally Hour | GOLD | Blue Belt

NCTA Sparring

Gegee Altangerel | BRONZE | Black Belt

Swarajh Mehta | SILVER | Blue Belt

Clara Guo | BRONZE | Yellow Belt

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Brown ECTC 2025

Good job to all of our 23 competitors for surviving 11 hours of driving and then KILLING IT on the mat! We are so proud of all the hard work our club members put in for both poomsae and sparring!

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Duke-UNC Scrimmage 2025

Duke Taekwondo hosted a competition in our very own Card Gym! Thank you so much to everyone who competed, including UNC Chapel Hill's Taekwondo team! Our members earned so many medals, but maybe the real gold was the friends we made along the way 🏅

2024-2025
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NCTA Nationals 2025

These amazing competitors represented Duke and brought back 4 MEDALS 🏆 Congratulations to our medalists and runner-ups!!

NCTA Poomsae

Bomin Kim | GOLD | Black Belt

Maanav Allampallam | BRONZE | Red Belt

Clarence Soh | BRONZE | Red Belt

NCTA Sparring

Vivian Zhang | SILVER | Black Belt

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Princeton ECTC 2025

We competed at ECTC's annual tournament at Princeton University! Congrats to all of our competitors for their hard work!

Finalists:

Maanav Allampallam, Clarence Soh, and Krystally Hour | SILVER | Intermediate Poomsae

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Brown ECTC 2024

Duke Club TKD took 24 competitors to the annual ECTC tournament hosted by Brown University! We earned a trophy for finishing 3rd among D3 schools.

Quarterfinalists:

Maanav Allampallam, Clarence Soh, and Cheyenne Tan | Intermediate Poomsae

Evelyn Chen, Sophia Roud, Ananya Sridhar | Intermediate Poomsae

Semifinalists:

Maanav Allampallam and Swarajh Mehta | BRONZE | Intermediate Sparring

2023-2024
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NCTA Nationals 2024

Duke Taekwondo traveled to Berkeley, CA to compete at Nationals. We won 8 medals and even got to reunite with some club alumni!

NCTA Poomsae:

Nguyen Nguyen | GOLD | Yellow Belt

Maanav Allampallam | BRONZE | Red Belt 

Emily Ford | BRONZE | Red Belt

Vivian Zhang and Daniel Lee | GOLD | Black Belt Pairs

NCTA Sparring:

John Huang | BRONZE | Blue Belt

Maanav Allampallam | BRONZE | Red Belt

Emma Evans-Nolet | BRONZE | Red Belt

Emily Ford | SILVER | Red Belt

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Princeton ECTC 2024

We competed at Princeton's largest tournament yet with 31 members on our team!

Quarterfinalists:

Daniel Lee, Vivian Zhang, and Arla Ragun | Black Belt Poomsae 

Sophia Roud and Ananya Sridhar | Women's Intermediate Sparring

Andrew Felix, Swarajh Mehta, and Seung Hyun Jin | Men's Beginner

Sparring

Finalists:

Maanav Allampallam, Emily Ford, and Clarence Soh | Intermediate Poomsae (BRONZE)

Sanjana Sankholkar and Claire Li | Women's Beginner Sparring (BRONZE)

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Brown ECTC 2023

Duke Taekwondo had an incredible time at Brown's tournament! We took 31 members to this tournament, our biggest team yet!

Quarterfinalists:

Jessica Chen, Emily Ford, and Clarence Soh | Intermediate Poomsae​

Sophia Roud, Jessica Chen, and Emma Evans-Nolet | Women's Intermediate Sparring

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Finalists:

Sanjana Sankholkar, Claire Li, and Audrey Kpodar | Women's Beginner Sparring (SILVER)

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UNC ACATA 2023

Duke Taekwondo became the highest-ranked school in ACATA out of all the schools we competed against. We won 8 gold, 9 silver, and 10 bronze medals!

 

Princeton ECTC Tournament 2023

2022-2023
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NCTA Nationals 2023

Duke TKD competed at Nationals (NCTA) in Boulder, CO, winning a total of 11 medals!

POOMSAE

Larry Zheng | Red | GOLD

Daniel J Lee | Black (Individual) | SILVER

Harrison Huang | Red | SILVER

Emily Ford | Green | SILVER

Priya Juarez | Black (Pairs) | BRONZE

Daniel J Lee | Black (Pairs) | BRONZE

Ethan Lee | Blue | BRONZE

SPARRING

Ethan Lee | Blue | SILVER

Emily Ford | Green | SILVER

Ananya Sridhar | Yellow | SILVER

Melody Gao | Black (SWUG) | BRONZE

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Princeton ECTC 2023

We competed at the largest ever Princeton Tournament, with three poomsae teams making it to quarterfinals. 

Priya Juarez, Daniel Lee, Vivian Zhang | Black Belt Quarterfinals

Kathleen Chen, Harrison Huang, Larry Zheng | Intermediate Quarterfinals

Samy Boutouis, Ashley Chen, Emily Ford | Beginner Quarterfinals

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Brown ECTC 2022

With 18 members, our team made our annual trip up to Brown for our largest ECTC tournament yet with nearly 500 competitors. The hard work of all of our athletes was clear each time they stepped onto the mat. Special congratulations to Larry Zheng, Ethan Lee, and Harrison Huang for making men’s B team sparring quarterfinals and to Samy Boutouis and Emily Ford for making C team poomsae quarterfinals!

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UNC Scrimmage 2022

Duke Taekwondo helped organize and compete in a practice scrimmage with UNC Taekwondo. At UNC, our members won 10 gold, 6 silver and 11 bronze medals. We are definitely looking to competing more next year!

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UNC ACATA 2023

Duke dominated as usual at the UNC ACATA tournament! Congrats to our 8 Gold, 5 Silver, and 7 Bronze medalists between our Sparring and Poomsae events!

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National Collegiate Taekwondo Association Nationals 2022

Our team earned our first NCTA division trophy ever in Duke Taekwondo history at Nationals, closing out with 12 medals (6 gold, 3 silver, 3 bronze), and second place in the color belt division!

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