About 3 — Karate United

We are Karate United.

We are coming together to build the global karate community to become our best, together – our best as athletes, and our best as people. Our future is collaboration, open source learning, and a core belief that our strength is in the diversity of our experiences. Our loyalty is to the development of our craft, the karate that unites us. We’re choosing the sacred path of coming together from around the world to learn, grow, and advance the sport we all love. Because we’re better together. We are better united – Karate United.

Our future is collaboration. We are better together. We are better united.

About

As a Team USA, World Games, and Premier League athlete, I’m excited to share Karate United to bring unique training experiences to you. We’ll come together to learn from the best in order to refine our craft and become our best. We’ll raise each other up, and in turn raise the level of our game.

I started in the sport when I was four years old, and by the time I was 12, knew I wanted to become the best. It was an honor to win multiple national championship titles as well as represent Team USA as a junior and (young) adult in the 90s and early 2000s. I got to see our sport evolve and compete along side of karate’s finest athletes of that era, many of whom are now national coaches.

After university, I chose to focus on my career and family. In 2016, when it was announced that karate would make its debut in the 2020 Games, I decided to return to the sport I love in pursuit of the Olympics – a childhood dream of mine. Even though I had been out of it for 13 years, had become a mom, executive, and a mature athlete, I decided that I’d take the leap. I chose to try, rather than always wonder what could’ve been.

While I made Team USA in 2020, I did not make it to the Olympics. However, I can honestly say that the journey was worth it. Being part of the Olympic movement, training at the highest level, meeting new friends from around the world, gaining new levels of resilience, efficiency and grit, pushing myself to the limits, and inspiring others along the way are some of the experiences that have forged who I am today.

In the final push of my athletic career, I spent more than six weeks training abroad in places like Dubai, U.A.E., Odessa, Ukraine, and Quito, Ecuador. It’s these experiences, my continued learnings, and the relationships I have made over the years, that serve as the foundation of Karate United.

As I move from being an athlete to giving back to the karate community, I am personally excited to bring this new, open-sourced training experience to help elevate sport karate and be part of your journey.

Unlock what’s possible in yourself, and let’s get training.