HTKD Club History

October 14, 2007 - MIT Tournament Results (Harvard placed 3rd out of 17 teams, and 1st in Division II):

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2006-2007

May 5, 2007 - The spring belt test takes place. All belts are promoted, included new blackbelts:

April 28, 2007 - Columbia Tournament Results (Harvard placed 4th out of 17 teams, and 4th overall the season):

March 9, 2007 - Harvard Taekwondo performs a demo for the annual Korean Association cultural show.

February 25, 2007 - NYU Tournament Results (Harvard placed 4th out of 17 teams):

December 10, 2006 - The fall belt test takes place; all colorbelts are promoted.

December 9, 2006 - Geoff Svacha, Karl Kmiecik, James Bui, and Dan Shalev participate in a demo for the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association's annual FEAST.

December 3, 2006 - Harvard Taekwondo attends its fifth annual retreat with Brown, at Harvard this year. Master Park, Master Lee, and Dan Schwartz lead classes.

November 20, 2006 - Harvard Taekwondo votes for its 2007 board:

November 5, 2006 - Cornell Tournament Results (Harvard placed 6th overall):

October 15, 2006 - MIT Tournament Results (Harvard placed 6th overall):

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2005-2006

May 13, 2006 - HTKD celebrates the end of another successful year at the annual banquet!

April 23, 2006 - The spring belt test takes place at Brown in front of Grandmaster Kim. In addition to colorbelt promotions, a new group of black belts is promoted:

April 8, 2006 - Yale Tournament Results (Harvard placed 8th overall, and placed 6th out of 19 ranked teams for the season, despite being unable to attend one of the four tournaments!):

April 7, 2006 - HTKD members Ben Wright, Tyler Klunick, Sabrina Hom, Mario Garcia, Geoff Svacha, Lolo Jawerth, Diana Hudak, Danny Lee, Dan Shalev, Samantha Waters, Emma Wu and James Bui perform a demo for the annual Korean Association show.

April 1, 2006 - HTKD members Dan Shalev, Jeff Bielicki, Diana Hudak, Geoff Svacha, and Sabrina Hom perform a demo for children and teenagers as part of adoption organization Wide Horizons' annual Korean Culture Camp.

March 19, 2006 - HTKD heads to Brown University for the annual Harvard-Brown Taekwondo retreat. Both teams spend the day learning from special guests proficient in Hapkido and Aikido, as well as from Brown's Master Park and from former US National Champion (Men's heavyweight) Michael Tang.

February 24-25, 2006 - HTKD members Carl Desir, Nancy Chow, Dan Shalev, Kirabo Jackson, Geoff Svacha, and Louise Jawerth participate in Collegiate Nationals:

February 12, 2006 - NYU Tournament is cancelled due to blizzard. HTKD has fun in NYC anyway.

December 4, 2005 - Harvard Taekwondo votes for its 2006 board:

November 5, 2005 - Cornell Tournament Results (Harvard placed 8th overall):

October 16, 2005 - MIT Tournament Results (Harvard placed 3rd overall):

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2004-2005

April 23, 2005 - Columbia Tournament Results (Harvard placed 3rd of 12 overall):

Independent article

April 8, 2005 - Harvard Taekwondo members Carl Desir, Diana Hudak, Albert Yeh, Ed Yoo, Patrick Lenehan, Annie Hsu, Dan Shalev, Calvin Huang, So-One Hwang, Erin Baggott, Danny Lee, Rishi Jajoo, Samantha Waters, James Bui, Geoff Svacha, Sabrina Hom, and James Cha participate in the annual Korean Association demo.

April 3, 2005 - Harvard Taekwondo members Danny Lee, Diana Hudak, James Cha, Dan Shalev, Mario Garcia and James Bui participate in the annual Wide Horizons demo.

February 26, 2005 - Princeton Tournament Results (Harvard placed 3rd of 11 overall):

November 14, 2004 - INCTL All-Star Tournament Results:

October 23, 2004 - West Point Tournament Results (Harvard placed 8th overall):

October 2, 2004 - Cornell Tournament Results (Harvard placed 5th overall):

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2003-2004

May 8, 2004 - Carl Desir, So-One Hwang, Mario Garcia, Patrick Lenehan, Bill Gallery, and Patricia Hernandez earn their black belts from Harvard Taekwondo. Calvin Huang earns his 2nd dan.

May 1, 2004 - Harvard Taekwondo participates in a Kick-a-thon to raise money for Wide Horizons for Children.

April 24, 2004 - Columbia Tournament Results (Harvard placed 3rd overall and 3rd in the INCTL!):

April 3, 2004 - Yale Tournament Results (Harvard placed 6th overall):

February 28, 2004 - Princeton Tournament Results (Harvard placed 4th out of 22 teams):

February 8th, 2004 - Instructor Liza Shaknovich places second at Collegiate National Team Trials, making her the Collegiate National B Team Member in the welterweight division.

November 7th - 8th, 2003 - Collegiate Nationals Results:

October 26, 2003 - NYU Tournament Results (Harvard finished 3rd overall):

October 14, 2003 - Harvard Taekwondo participates in a Harvard Martial Arts demo featuring five martial arts clubs on campus: Aikido, Hapkido, Kendo, Tiger Crane Tai Chi, and Taekwondo.

October 12, 2003 - Harvard Taekwondo helps host the 1st Yong-In President-Cup International Tae Kwon Do Championship at Gordon Track.

There are over 1000 competitors from all over the United States and Korea. The tournament features a "Good Will Game" between a US collegiate national team and a Korea collegiate national team, as well as a demonstration from the Yong-In University Demonstration Team.

Crimson article

September 21, 2003 - Instructors Ed Yoo and Liza Shakhnovich compete in the INCTL All-Stars Tournament. Instructor Shakhnovich wins the light/welter division, while Instructor Yoo takes second place in fin/fly.

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2002-2003

August 2003 - Five members of Harvard Taekwondo--Mario Garcia, So-One Hwang, Lily Kang, Patrick Lenehan, and Manoj Ramachandran--participate in NASA's Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program.

Gazette article

August 4, 2003 - Executive board changes the name of the club from "Harvard World Taekwondo Federation" to "Harvard Taekwondo."

May 3, 2003 - Lily Kang, Nadine Knight, and Andrea Tsai earn their black belts from the Harvard World Taekwondo Federation. Ed Yoo earns his 2nd dan.

April 12, 2003 - Columbia Tournament Results:

April 5, 2003 - Yale Tournament Results (Harvard finished 2nd overall out of 14 teams):

March 16, 2003 - Liza Shakhnovich earns a silver medal in sparring at the Massachusetts State Tournament in the lightweight division

March 2, 2003 - Chun-Der Li earns his black belt from the Harvard World Taekwondo Federation

March 1, 2003 - Princeton Tournament Results (Harvard finished 4th overall out of 17 teams):

February 20, 2003 - The new executive board for 2003-04 takes over:

December 15, 2002 - Will Wright earns his black belt from the Harvard World Taekwondo Federation

November 9, 2002 - UPenn Tournament Results (Harvard finished 3rd overall out of 10 teams):

October 20, 2002 - NYU Tournament Results (Harvard finished 6th overall out of 12 teams):

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2001-2002

April 14, 2002 - Yale Tournament Results (Harvard finished 2nd overall out of 15 teams):

March 2002 - Kathy Chang earns gold medals in both forms and sparring at the Massachusetts State Tournament

March 9, 2002 - Princeton Tournament Results (Harvard finished 6th overall out of 14 teams):

November 3, 2001 - Cornell Tournament Results (Harvard finished 3rd overall out of 14 teams):

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2000-2001

November 11, 2000 - Cornell Tournament Results (Harvard finished 1st overall)

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1999-2000

May 6, 2000 - Damian Moskovitz earns his 1st dan black belt from the Harvard World Taekwondo Federation. Christina Park earns her third dan.

April 8, 2000 - Yale Tournament Results (Harvard finished 1st overall!):

November 1999 - Club sport status attained through recognition by Harvard University Department of Athletics.

October 30, 1999 - NYU Tournament Results (Harvard finished 5th out of 13 teams):

September 1999 - Chris Shim, Kathy Chang, Edwin Yoo, Jeanie Yoon, Christina Park, and Brian Kim (The Fellowship of the Kick) found the Harvard World Taekwondo Federation.

April 1999 - Chris Shim, a first-year at Harvard College, thinks creating a WTF-style Taekwondo club at Harvard would be a good idea.

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