2007 Executive Board

Dan is a large, slow moving mammal from the city and state of New York. Outside the club he is known for his sluggish ways and inability to focus on anything. In the club he is known as the Crazy Israeli because of some incidents in the sparring ring. Last year he was been transported to the awesomest of houses, Quincy, for safe-keeping. If not in Quincy, he can be found in the Kong with Annie and other HTKD folk or his block mates.

Dan has much free time because he is the master of schedule making. It also helps that he is a WGS concentrator. In his free time he enjoys sleeping, eating, going to every practice ever, not having finals or pre-noontime classes and trying to find the only other full WGS concentrator in his class. He does not enjoy BS50 and is glad its reign of terror has ended.

When not training, Dan enjoys thinking about training, preparing to train, and recruiting other people to train with him. He earned his black belt with HTKD in 2006.

Emma's passion and exceptional talent for Taekwondo first became apparent in 2003 while she attended a Harvard summer program. Her career started seven years ago when she was given the choice between Chinese traditional dance or Korean martial arts. Allowing her inner fighter to decide, Wu enrolled in Min's Taekwondo school in Richardson, Texas. She perservered despite initial coordination difficulties, and she is currently a first dan. Emma has competed at multiple Senior Nationals, medaling in both forms and sparring, and plans to continue competing at the national level and in the INCTL.

Emma is currently a Mather resident concentrating in linguistics and biochemistry. Outside of TKD and studying, she spends her time eating cookies, blogging, kicking people for fun, and making embarrassing jokes about her medicinal properties.

Nancy is a senior Biology concentrator living in fair Quincy House. For the record, she wishes it to be known that she wants to become a biologist, not a doctor like the other 95% of bio people. She is proud of her lab-rat future. As a proud Georgian, Nancy took most of freshman year acclimating to life in the North. Despite difficulties, such as freezing cold and evil yanks, Nancy finds life at Harvard to be quite contenting, especially because of HTKD!

Back home, Nancy spent many years practicing a different kind of Taekwondo known as ATA. Upon arriving at Harvard, Nancy checked out Harvard Taekwondo and discovered the wonder that is full-contact sparring. As it turns out, underneath her sunny, southern dispotion, Nancy is a warrior. Don't worry though, as long as you don't try to make contact with her hogu or helmet, Nancy will always find a way to brighten your day!

Khoa is a self-proclaimed clueless sophomore from the grand state of Texas. Although he may have no idea what he wants to study, he does know a thing or two about Taekwondo, having studied it since he was six years old! He freely divulges that sidekicks are his favorite aspect of Taekwondo, though he fails to mention that he enjoys using them to assault innocent bystanders (mainly small children and the disabled). As tournament director, Khoa's purpose in life is to both get you to compete and to ensure that you enjoy a positive competition experience (read: he will carry you to a tourney on his back if the traffic gets bad on the way). In the scant moments that he is not eating, sleeping and breathing tournaments, he enjoys wine, women and song...but don't give him beer, because he will explode...kind of like a gremlin.

Upon arriving at Harvard with five years of kenpo karate and a first degree black belt (August 2002), Joyce decided to try her hand in other martial arts. A year of wushu landed her in taekwondo the fall of her sophomore year, where she believes her passion for round-house kicks will keep her.

Joyce is a biochemistry concentrator who currently lives in Eliot House. In absentia on campus, you may find her conjuring spells at the med school or hibernating at home in Lexington, MA. Besides kicking butt, she finds entertainment in watching "House, MD" and playing computer games. In her spare time, she also enjoys taking candid shots, sketching portraits, molding pottery, and chasing dust bunnies.

Yuhan is a senior Social Studies concentrator in Lowell house. He began his lifelong relationship with Taekwondo his Freshman spring (Spring 05) after developing a big crush on an unnamed HTKD member. Presumably, the crush is gone, but the tempestuos and passionate affair with Taekwondo continues in a cycle of bruises and love. Yuhan's main interest outside of Taekwondo is awkwardness in its many uncomfortable forms. True to his inclinations, Yuhan has mastered the arts of whining, squealing and wheedling to aid in his greater pursuit. He also enjoys guitar, swimming, NCAA basketball and social theory. Finally, he offers a warning to his teammates: should anyone pop a balloon next to him, he will cuss you out in Szechuanese (it's a language, not just a food!) and hurt you... bad.

Victor George Joseph was born 20 years ago in the darkest part of the sunniest city (LA). Since emerging from the Bat Mansion, he has gone by many names: snake slayer, wrecking ball and others. His will for destruction is paralleled only by his loves: playing with his fancy camera and sterilizing his opponents. When not kicking stuff, he enjoys instigating conflict so that he may bust out one of his many knives and consuming most beverages (except beer!). Destruction and instigation aside, Victor tends to be a nice guy who enjoys spending time with his posse of small Asian girls and hopes to continue the family insurance business. Until his return to the Bat Mansion, he calls Winthrop home and studies the dark arts (economics). Most recently, Victor has been spotted napping in MR66, which he is taking with Danny and other HTKD folk. As your social chair, he also hopes that 2007 will be remembered as the year of dimsum outings and parties aplenty, and will be working tirelessly to ensure an abundance of such events.

Sabrina is a G5 studying Neurobiology in the BBS program at Harvard Medical School. Using the dark and undoubtedly sinister secrets of her neurobiology lab, Sabrina turned off the stretch receptors in her skeletal muscles, rendering her unbelievably flexible. When asked about this, however, she adamantly responds that it was merely her background in Chinese dance from her undergrad days in Berkeley that made her so limber. Sabrina claims she started Harvard Taekwondo after years of jealousy seeing her California friends kicking butt. However, some team members believe she was tricked into thinking we danced after seeing the "Just Like Ballet" t-shirts. This controversy about the circumstances of Brie's joining TKD is likely to remain unresolved.

When not training, Sabrina tends to sit by a microscope and poke worms. She is also a member of HTKD's "short but awesome" clique, and takes great pride in her stature. Although she claims to be "really short," some have argued that she is merely short. Sabrina is always happy to meet new TKD'ers or hang out with old ones...but she warns against approaching her while carrying either yellow Starbursts or organisms with exoskeletons.