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Shotokan Club picks up galore of national goldJerry Kattavvar Sr. and wife Millie, chief instructors of the Greenville Shotokan Karate Club, may want to include weightlifting in their student’s training regimen, iX they don't already.They may need it to carry home all the gold they’ve been winning.The club, sponsored by the Hodding Carter Memorial YMCA, garnered first-place medals in eight events, and a host of other high finishes, at the recent U.S.A. Karate Federation National Championships in New OrleansTony Kelly, Darryl Adams and Antiocious Johnson teamed up to win the three-man black belt kata team championship. (Kata involves proper execution of karate forms, rather than actual fighting.)Kelly also won a gold in 16-year-old advanced junior boys middleweight kumite (sparring against an opponent).Other gold medal winners wereQuinton Williams, men’s black belt kumite champ.Quinton Williams, Christopher Owens, Stephen Davenport,DeShawn Conguista, Daryl Nash and Amy Morris.Owens and Morris were profiled in earlier editions of the Delta Democrat Times.Besides his two golds Kelly, the son of Shirley Kelly of Cleveland, picked up a third place in individual advanced junior boys black belt kata.The East Side High student said he started the study of karate at age nine “to stay out of trouble.” He was promoted to first dan at the age of 12 and recently achieved the second degree black belt.He is currently training with the Delta State University Karate Club as well as at the Carter YMCA.Adams is not only a master of karate - he has a master’s degree in education and serves as director of residence life and minority affairs at Delta State.He is instructor of the DSUKarate Club and a third degree black belt with 14 years experience. Adams is a two-time national champ, placing first in men’s team kumite competition in 1990 at the International Shotokan Karate Federation national championships in Denver, Colorado.“Why karate?” Adams mused. “The training promotes physical conditioning and character development. The teaching comes from a desire to share with others what has been shared with me.”Johnson, age 19, is the son of Ineather Johnson of Greenville and a student at Mississippi Delta Community College, where he majors in business. Between his studies and parttime employment with United Parcel Service, he trains under the Kattawars, as he has done for five years.Johnson said his goal is to “continue to train hard at karate and study hard in school.”First dan black belt Williams is a Cleveland resident. He has been employed at Cives Steel Company for 11 years, and has been training for five years. It paid off this year as he took the gold in men’s advanced black belt kumite.Williams is a member of both the DSU Karate Club and the YMCA Shotokan club. Although he has won a number of awards, he said his greatest achievement was winning the nationals.Davenport, winner of the 17-year-old beginners’ kata competition and second in kumite, calls himself a true martial artist. That’s because, he said, “My greatest talent is my ability to draw almost anything I see.Davenport will be a senior at Greenville High this fall.Another Greenville High student. Conguista (a ninth grader) won the 14-year-old boys beginners’ kumite and finished secondin kata. JA relative newcomer to karate,5ii tiuinit. t.*ronly eight months. He said that, when not practicing karate he is* working or singing.Nash, champion of the 15-year-j old boys beginners’ kumite, took* second place in kata. He has evenj less experient th n Conguista,| with seven months of training. He* was surprised at the results.“Although I had great exp« cta«* tions, I could have never imag*5 ined I would be a national ■ champion in such a short time,”} he said. “I would like to give* special thanks to Mr. and Mrs.! Kattawar for helping me prepare. I “I would also like to thank* Antiocious Jon- on, Mr. Brewer S Vaught, and Tc;.v J.dly and fam-J ily, whom this v\.,aidn’t be possi-{ ble without.” INash will be a junior at T.L.} Weston this year.
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Greenville Delta Democrat Times
Greenville, Mississippi, US
Sun, Aug 18, 1991
Page 33
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