Duke University Club Taekwondo
Competitions

Competitions
We attend 1-2 ACATA tournaments every year, usually including one hosted at UNC Chapel Hill in the fall.
Poomsae format:
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3 person mixed gender teams
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Beginner, Intermediate, Elite divisions
Sparring format:
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2-3 person same gender teams
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Beginner division:
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no headshots
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Intermediate division:
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USAT Junior Sparring Rules (reduced headshot strength)
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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:
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Color belts:
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3-person mixed-gender teams
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yellow, green, blue, and red belt divisions by gender
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Black belts:
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3-person mixed-gender teams
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Sparring format:
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3-person same-gender teams: one lightweight, one middleweight, one heavyweight
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C team:
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White to Green belts
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no headshots
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3 rounds of 60 seconds
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hand-scoring
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B team:
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Green to Red belts
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USAT Junior Sparring Rules (reduced headshot strength)
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3 rounds of 90 seconds
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electronic scoring
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A team:
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Blue to Black belts
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3 rounds of 90-120 seconds
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electronic scoring
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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:
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WT style:
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individual
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yellow, green, blue, red, and black belt divisions by gender
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Sparring format:
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individual
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same gender
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Color belts:
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4 weight divisions
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3 rounds of 1.5 minutes, including 30 seconds rest between each round
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Black belts:
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WT/Olympic rules:
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4 weight divisions
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3 rounds of 2 minutes, including 1 minute rest between each round
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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!

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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!

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!

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!

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!