AUSKF 12WKC Final Eliminations
9/1/02, Los Angeles
On Sunday, 9/1/02, the final elimination tournament was held at
OSULA to select the Team USA members for the 12th World Kendo
Championships. The tournament selected 5 team members, to be added
to Mike Yoshimura and Kaori Takada who were automatically selected
at the AUS Kendo Championships on 7/5. There were also 2 men's
team and 1 women's team members selected by manager and coaches'
choice, as well as 3 alternates for each team.
The Team USA results are listed below.
Also listed are the manager and coaches selected at the November 2001
AUSKF Board meeting.
Manager and coaches
- Manager: Hori, Atsushi sensei (SCKO)
- Men's coach: Koike, Shinichi sensei (PNKF)
- Women's coach: Kodama, Jean sensei (SCKF)
Men's team (8 plus 3 alternates)
- Yoshimura, Mike (SCKF)
- Minami, Mike (NCKF)
- Hosokawa, Spencer (SCKF)
- Yoshimura, Steve (SCKF)
- Yang, Daniel (SCKF)
- Chinen, Katsushi (SCKF)
- Matsuda, Arnold (NCKF)
- Yang, Christopher (SCKF)
- Abe Kevin (SWKF) (alternate)
- Itokazu, Fumihide (SCKF) (alternate)
- Hashimoto, Omito (SCKF) (alternate)
Women's team (7 plus 3 alternates)
- Takada, Kaori (SCKO)
- Abe, Judy (SCKF)
- Farmer, Debi (GNEUSKF)
- Mikuni, Reika (NCKF)
- Marsten, Elizabeth (PNKF)
- Sakae, Mitsuyo (SCKF)
- Kikunaga, Kaori (NCKF)
- Takasaki, Mayura (MKF) (alternate)
- Uto, Rika (SCKF) (alternate)
- Takeda, Michi (SCKF) (alternate)
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