This weekend our team was busy! Our kids wrestling team from Pickering and North York competed with Coach Fred Ortencio at the Guelph Youth Wrestling Tournament!
Amazing results for these little killers! Tons of things to come back and work on, and some of these hard working guys actually got invited to be with the teen’s class in Pickering based on their great performance and dedication!
Our BJJ team spent their weekend smashing it as well at the Abu Dhabi Jiu Jitsu Pro in Toronto at Ryerson University, as well as our good friend and teammate Leozinho and fellow Canadians Josh and Jacob Boodhoo representing and bringing home the gold all the way out in the Netherlands!
We brought a number of medals back from these tournaments but nonetheless, the most important thing we brought was our team and our sense of community for all of our Pickering and North York teammates!
Honourable mentions to the following athletes:
Fabricio Barbarotti – Silver – Black Belt 77kg
Fernando Zulick – Bronze – MASTER 2 (hes master 4, thats guys 10 years or more younger!!) 84kg
Oscar Dewindt – Silver – Adult Black 94kg
Arwin Manalac – Silver – Master 1 Brown 84kg
Tony Nguyen- Gold – Adult Brown 62kg
Kieran Kichuk – Gold – Adult Brown 77kg
Shakeel Sammady – Gold – Adult Brown Belt 84kg
Lucas Garcia – Gold (Close out) – Adult Purple Belt 77kg
Osman Shah – Silver (Close out) – Adult Purple Belt 77kg
Armand Figueroa – Gold – Adult Purple Belt 84kg
Arif Bhaloo – Gold – Master 1 Purple Belt 62kg
Pedro Moura – Gold – Adult Blue 69kg
Charles De Souza – Bronze – Adult Blue 69kg
Trae Simon – Gold – Adult Blue 84kg
Marcus Dy – Silver – Juvenile Blue 62kg
Cathy Gerasimov – Silver – Adult Blue 55kg
Hanna Hepworth – Gold – Teens Colour Belt – 55kg
Adam Rickman – Gold – Master 3 White Belt – 77kg
Reza Riaz – Silver – Master 3 White Belt – 77kg
Kids White Belt – Kai Wellington – Gold
Everyone who competed but missed the podium we are so proud of. Diego Santos fought his way through a dislocated shoulder into the second round but couldn’t continue through the bronze match due to the injury. We were rooting for an Arwin-Diego closeout, but we’ve got some time to do it all again at Pans!!!
Tons of our affiliates from Kitchener at Guardhouse came by to support their troops as well as our local affiliates from Budo and Toronto Top Team!
Congrats again everyone, lets keep grinding!!!
