USMA Taekwondo competed with fighting spirit at the United ITF National Championships this weekend, bringing home 19 medals, with 13 of our students set to represent Australia at next year's World Titles in London. Melbourne-based Master Spiridon Cariotis (7th Dan) travelled to Queensland with a team of 14 students participating in the tournament held in East Brisbane on Saturday. In the lead up to the event – which drew scores of competitors, coaches, officials and spectator

We have had limited access to the internet, and our key photographers and video people are still travelling, but the news is that the Australian team was very successful in Rome. The highlight was the success of the Australian junior male and female teams. Both teams won silver medals in team sparring, and faced Argentina in the final. Luke Ravlic, Alec Kumar and Hashira Weerawardena fought in the junior male team, while Quniton Le and Ashley Ravlic won silver medals in indiv