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JUDO TEAM WINS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP – March 18, 2010

WEST POINT, N.Y. – The West Point Judo Team won the National Collegiate Championship title in the senior division at the 2010 National Collegiate Judo Championships, at Texas A&M, College Station, on Saturday.  

West Point Judo athletes made history in Collegiate Judo by handing San Jose State its first team defeat in half a century, as well as placing ahead of 24 other colleges represented at the event.
 
West Point Judo athletes placed in every division with the exception of the 73kg division and collected a total of 20 points.

Cadets Nathan Horswill, senior, and Kyle Schlauch, sophomore, took home the gold medal in the 60kg and heavy weight divisions, while Cadets Anthony Adez, junior, Patrick Singley, Jung Sung-Won, and Samuel Ellis, sophomores brought home the silver in their respective weight classes.  In the women’s division, Cadet Nargis Kabiri senior and Heather Purkey, sophomore became the second and third West Point women National Champions by taking home the gold in their divisions. 

“West Point Judo athletes represented the academy extremely well and demonstrated the Warrior Ethos, perseverance, and character expected of them on every fight”, said Lt. Col. Hector Morales, judo coach.

About West Point
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US News & World Report, the U.S. Military Academy is a four-year co-educational federal undergraduate liberal arts college located 50 miles north of New York City.  The world's preeminent leader development institution, it was founded in 1802 as America's first college of engineering.  Its mission remains constant—to educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of Duty, Honor, Country and prepared for a career of professional excellence and service to the Nation as an officer in the United States Army.  For more information, go to www.westpoint.edu.