Timothy Colanta of Canton won the Massachusetts State Tae Kwon Do (TKD)
Championship, 7 and under lightweight division, recently contested
at U. Mass Lowell. A red belt, Timothy competed in his first state
championship. Timothy represents Lee's Tae Kwon Do College in Canton and
captured three gold medals for Forms, Breaking and Sparring. Billed as
the beginning of the Road to the Olympics, over 400 Junior and Adult
competitors met at the Lowell campus on March 16 to compete for the right to
represent Massachusetts in national competition this year.
Timothy
is also a member of the New England TKD Demonstration Team, which performs
throughout the New England region at various tournaments and cultural
functions. A first grader at Thacher Montessori in Milton,
Timothy will represent Massachusetts at the Junior Olympics in Orlando, Fla. on
July 2, 2003.