(Colorado Springs, CO) – Senior elite athletes will be eligible to win up to $500 in prize money at the USA Judo Senior National Championships on May 24 in Birmingham, Ala.Register now at https://usajudo.sport80.com/public/events.Thanks to the generous...
(Colorado Springs, CO) – Nearly 650 judo athletes will converge on Salt Lake City for the USA Judo Youth National Championships, March 29-30. Competition will be held on Saturday and Sunday from 8:30 a.m. – approximately 7 p.m. at the Salt Palace Conv...
(Colorado Springs, CO) – USA Judo is pleased to announce that Israel Hernandez (Keswick, Va.) has been hired as head coach of the USA Judo National Resident Team Program at the US Performance Center in Charlotte, N.C. Hernandez succeeds Robert Eriksson...
Paris 2024 Olympian Maria Laborde (Kenosha, Wis. / NYAC / Ki-Itsu-Sai National Training Center) won her first career Grand Prix medal for the United States on Friday, taking bronze at the Upper Austria Grand Prix in Linz.Laborde, ranked #15 in the wome...
Team USA won four senior and three junior medals in Tunisia over the weekend.Christopher Velazco (Coral Springs, Fla. / NYAC / Ki-itsu-sai National Training Center) and Sara Golden (Crystal Lake, Ill. / USA Judo National Resident Team) both won gold in...
Paris 2024 Olympian Jack Yonezuka (West Long Branch, N.J. / NYAC / Cranford JKC) captured a bronze medal in the men's 73 kg division on Saturday at the European Open in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It marked the fifth Continental Open medal and first European ...
As we celebrate National Girls & Women in Sports Day this week, USA Judo CEO Corinne Shigemoto shares her story of learning from the highest-ranked female judoka in history, Keiko Fukuda.Keiko Fukuda was a Japanese-American martial artist who held the ...
Happy National Girls & Women in Sports Day!Commemorated annually, National Girls & Women in Sports Day honors the achievements of girls and women in sports as well as the positive impact sports can have in their lives.To celebrate, USA Judo caught up w...
