Below are past and present members of the
UConn Karate Club who reached the rank of 6 b kyu (green belt) or higher.
| Rank | Name |
Date of
Last Rank | Title |
|---|
| 9th dan |
|
| Chief Instructor Emeritus
Shotokan Karate-Do International |
|---|
| 7th dan |
Shu Takahashi |
| Chief Instructor
Shotokan Karate-Do International |
|---|
| |
10/18 | Chief Instructor
UConn Karate Club |
6th dan |
Michio Nonaka | |
Chief Instructor
Reitaku University |
| Margaret Thomas |
7/09 | Chief Instructor
Karate Spirit
| | Craig Elkin |
7/21 | Chief Instructor
Yale Karate Club |
| John Seifert |
7/24 | Instructor |
| |
7/24 | Chief Instructor
JKA of Montville |
5th dan |
Mark Blake |
7/98 | Instructor |
| | 7/19 | Asst. Chief Instructor
UConn Karate Club |
| Joe Vincente | 8/23 | Instructor |
4th dan |
James Cognetta | 7/86 |
Instructor |
| John Henderson |
12/95 | Instructor |
| Thomas Hine |
7/99 | Instructor |
| Holly Danowski |
7/01 | Instructor |
| Bruce Press | 5/06 |
| Frank Sessa d | 5/07 |
| Josh Wilber | 1/12 | Instructor |
| Mary-Beth Macaluso | 6/15 |
| Rob Terlikowski | 2/16 | Instructor |
| | 7/17 | Instructor |
| Chris Pouchet |
7/21 | Founder
UConn Karate Club |
| | 7/21 | Chief Instructor
JKA Wallingford |
| Lia Burnham | 7/21 | Instructor |
| Mike Burnham | 7/21 | Instructor |
| | 7/21 | Instructor |
| Carolyn Rinaldi | 7/21 |
| Barbara Ambros | 8/22 |
3rd dan |
Fred Iannucci d |
4/90 | Instructor |
| Dave Harrison d |
12/91 | Instructor |
| Scott Jacobs | 12/92 |
| Dana Manner | 4/94 |
| Kristina Powell | 7/98 |
| Julie Westmoreland | 7/99 |
| John Listorti | 6/00 |
| Sandeep Kaushal | 9/02 |
| | 12/06 | Instructor |
| Ryan Jacobs | 12/06 | Instructor |
| Li Chen | 12/09 |
| Steve Rinaldi | 7/11 |
| Andrea Jacobs | 7/21 | Instructor |
| Juvy Lou Abarientos | 7/21 |
| Craig Dickinson | 7/22 |
| Ed Dinisoe | 12/23 |
2nd dan |
Martin Hyman | 3/81 |
| Tom Sbabo | 9/83 |
| Tim Becker | 9/84 |
| Matt Guarino | 1/86 |
| Mike Bray d | 7/88 |
| Steve Kissel | 7/88 |
| Mark Collins | 7/89 |
| Steve Palmer | 7/89 |
| Godfrey Baker | 1/91 |
| Rob Post | 7/91 |
| George Tzepos | 12/91 |
| Gene Broderick | 12/92 |
| Paul Fitzpatrick | 1/93 |
| Mohan Kalyanaraman | 7/95 |
| Gary Sandler | 7/96 |
| Dave Pellei | |
| Chris Njue | 7/98 |
| Koichi Shiroma |
| Mark Kuratana | 7/01 |
| Demissew Ejara | 7/02 |
| Jeff Towill | 9/02 |
| Tom Fabian | 1/03 |
| Ken Forrest | 12/04 |
| Shawn Hines | 4/04 |
| Matt Delude d | 12/05 |
| Chinh Bui | 12/06 |
| Aviva Bashan | 12/06 |
| Rim Baltaduonis | 4/08 |
| Brian Dragoo | 8/08 |
| Rudy Costello | 12/08 |
| Jason Dina | 12/08 |
| Muhammad Arif | 10/10 |
| Phil Blaze | 12/10 |
| Susie Huang | 12/10 |
| Brian Boyce | 7/11 |
| Kim Bui | 7/11 |
| Val Gorbatyuk | 7/11 |
| Nick McIntosh | 10/14 |
| Eva Forrest | 12/14 |
| Chris Cleaver | 7/15 |
| Alex Jacobs | 7/16 |
| Aidan Boyce | 7/16 |
| Zhangtongxin (Kitty) Yang | 12/19 |
| Phil Minichino | 12/20 |
| Brian Moriarity | 11/21 |
| Carmen Rojas | 12/21 |
| Darwin Jurado | 12/23 |
| Chi-hwa Kao | 12/23 |
| Jeff Kamenetz | 12/23 |
| Parker Henry | 12/23 |
1st dan |
Ed Miller | 1/77 |
| Rick Slayton | 1/78 |
| Anne Stonick | 6/78 |
| Bob Rodin | 6/78 |
| Devon Conover | 6/78 |
| Peggy Wills | 6/79 |
| Richard Kaplan | 12/79 |
| Norman Bolle | 3/81 |
| Susan Collins | 7/81 |
| Kathy Lucas | 7/81 |
| Seth Lapuk | 9/83 |
| Daria Moraveck | 9/83 |
| Jim Klucznik | 9/83 |
| Karen Anthony | 12/83 |
| Fred Brown | 12/84 |
| Gail Goodman | 12/84 |
| Dennis Donovan | 6/85 |
| Peter Fabbri | 7/85 |
| Julie Hartley | 7/86 |
| Leo Budin | 9/86 |
| Kathy Abbott | 12/87 |
| Toshi Aoki | 12/87 |
| Steve Pellei | 7/88 |
| Melissa Quigley | 12/88 |
| Phuc Tran | 12/88 |
| Mike Burton | 12/88 |
| Mike Reno d | 1/90 |
| Bernadette Petrillo | 7/90 |
| Rob Siegman | 7/90 |
| Justin Birtwell | 7/91 |
| Kelly Andrade | 7/91 |
| John Sucec | 3/92 |
| Lynn Graff | 7/92 |
| John Baker | 7/92 |
| Frank Weber | 7/92 |
| Jim Hannigan | 2/93 |
| John Cummings | 2/93 |
| Frank Briganti | 6/93 |
| Jim Colandrea | 6/93 |
| Jeff Michaud | 6/93 |
| Brian McClure | 6/94 |
| Dave Barton | 6/94 |
| Julie Sorenson | 1/95 |
| Kaarlo Moran | 7/95 |
| Kathy Kline | 7/96 |
| Tricia Marcy | 12/98 |
| Beth Jankowski | 3/99 |
| Mike Hagan | 5/99 |
| Matt Cross | 7/99 |
| Peggy Gilbart | 4/00 |
| Ed Marotta | 1/01 |
| Mike Nisbet | 1/01 |
| Mike Nannini | 7/01 |
| Chris Renza | |
| Paul Hearn | 4/02 |
| Mike Barone | 7/02 |
| Glenn Gladischer | 7/02 |
| Kevin Hawes | 7/02 |
| Jim Saloio | 7/02 |
| Bob Bagshaw | 10/02 |
| Daniel Napier | 2/04 |
| Phil Capella | 7/04 |
| Rob Taylor | 7/04 |
| Joel Garcia | 9/04 |
| Carlos Dias | 12/04 |
| Garrett Cogswell | 7/05 |
| Timothy Bui | 12/05 |
| Ham Le | 7/06 |
| Henry Huang | 12/06 |
| Jeff Paine | 12/06 |
| Daniel Rivera | 12/06 |
| Becky Leuck | 12/06 |
| Aurelien Carlier | 12/06 |
| Tom Stapleton | 7/07 |
| Renald Guillemette | 7/07 |
| Jiu Yu Low | 12/07 |
| Bach Bang | 6/08 |
| Suzanne Cristina | 12/09 |
| Joe Dowden | 12/09 |
| Hugh Cassidy | 12/10 |
| Brianna Boyce | 7/11 |
| Jeremy Bui | 7/11 |
| Zachary Bui | 7/11 |
| Tom Costello | |
| Tim Rourke | 7/11 |
| Liam Boyce d | 7/12 |
| Tony Carpanzano | 9/12 |
| Heather Bell | 1/14 |
| Angie Cheung | 9/14 |
| Katelynn King | 9/14 |
| Sarah Boyce | 8/16 |
| Nobuko Tokunaga | 5/18 |
| Caitlin Boyce | 12/18 |
| Francis Gurahoo d | 9/19 |
| Sebastian Donoso | 7/22 |
| Tom Kwiatkowski | 12/22 |
| Garen Chiloyan | 12/22 |
| Lih-Ling Chern | 12/22 |
| Catalina Dinisoe | 12/23 |
1 kyu |
Greg Vanagel | 12/81 |
| Bill Telesco | 12/82 |
| Pete Valenti | 12/85 |
| Chris Ward | 12/90 |
| Thuan Tran | 12/90 |
| Josh Doty | 9/91 |
| Rick Juknavorian | 9/94 |
| Natalie Flach | 9/95 |
| Mike Grube | 9/97 |
| Matthew Stroop | 4/98 |
| Shannon Ambrose | 12/98 |
| Don Wesson | 4/00 |
| Shaun Rathbun | |
| Alison Flannery | 9/05 |
| Joe Amat | 4/12 |
| Keila Garrido | 12/12 |
| Karol Kuczaj | 12/12 |
| Paul Borochin | 7/13 |
| Nicole Depowski | 12/13 |
| Serge Nakhmanson | 9/17 |
| Yining (Jenny) Chen | 4/18 |
1 b kyu |
Mike Greenwood | 10/81 |
| Howard Canistaro | 3/84 |
| Karl Blanchard | 4/86 |
| Tony Mallon | 4/86 |
| Patty LeGore | 7/89 |
| Jian Huang | 4/94 |
| Alex Vassiliev | 12/03 |
| Katy McGrath | 4/04 |
| Earl Smith | 12/13 |
| Giovanni Miranda | 12/13 |
2 kyu |
| 12/79 |
| Daniel Novak | 4/91 |
| Gigi White | 4/93 |
| John Mailly | 9/93 |
| Gian Franco Sacco | 12/00 |
| Lauren Martin | 4/07 |
| Tarah Eisenhauer | 4/12 |
| Marissa Boyce | 12/19 |
2 b kyu |
Odie Pansius | 3/83 |
| Chuck Ausburger | 3/84 |
| Dennis Campbell | 3/84 |
| Chris Sarli | 4/89 |
| Masami Sakai | 9/99 |
| Ethan Phelps | 5/00 |
| Laura Landry | 12/05 |
| Brittany Perrone | 12/06 |
| Charles Workman | 4/07 |
| Rudy Cepeda | 4/12 |
| Sokheang Chay | 12/13 |
| Julia Ohela | 4/14 |
3 kyu |
Jane Butler | 1/79 |
| Diane Martin | 12/79 |
| Elizabeth Suleski | 4/80 |
| Mary Lou DeLucia | 1/89 |
| Dave Koenig | 1/89 |
| Chris Pabilonia | 4/89 |
| Paul Toth | 7/93 |
| Conner Buckland | 7/95 |
| Steve Guiness | 3/96 |
| Lam Wong | 4/04 |
| Ana Cantu | 4/10 |
| Leah Schwebel | 12/10 |
| William Chan | 4/11 |
| Tianfang (Jack) Yang | 5/19 |
| Barth Bracy | 8/24 |
3 b kyu |
Rich Hastings | 4/78 |
| Gerald Zambury | 4/79 |
| Art Roberts | 4/79 |
| Scott Killelea | 7/81 |
| Beth McCrave | 9/83 |
| Jack Jurick | 9/83 |
| Valerie Obremski | 3/84 |
| Rob MacDonald | 3/84 |
| Tom Raslavsky d | 7/85 |
| Frank Cassetta | 12/85 |
| Mark Peterson | 9/88 |
| Carlos Alvarez | 12/88 |
| Laura Watts | 12/89 |
| Mazen Kanaan | 4/92 |
| Mike Slason | 4/93 |
| Dave Pociu | 9/93 |
| Shane Robertson | 12/98 |
| Jay Chou | 12/98 |
| Steve Cote | 11/02 |
| Karla Kanode | 12/02 |
| Elaine Morra | 5/03 |
| Kwan Lam | 12/03 |
| Dan Burfoot | 2/04 |
| Nicole Dinicola | 12/04 |
| Lindsay Rich | 4/06 |
| C.J. Worzella | 4/06 |
| Sagarika Bose | 7/06 |
| Rachel Antonucci | 4/11 |
| Marius Nicolae | 4/11 |
| Ramin Amiri | 12/11 |
| Robert Terlikowski | 12/12 |
| Lynn Nguyen | 7/13 |
| Aravind Suresh | 9/13 |
| Athena Tao | 5/15 |
| Joemele Davis | 8/24 |
4 kyu |
Paul David | 4/81 |
| Nancy Fontanella | 4/82 |
| Tom Hebert | 4/83 |
| Shawn Marsh | 4/90 |
| Rod Saunders | 4/90 |
| Ryan Shuell | 12/92 |
| Mike Coplen | 9/95 |
| Hatim Sharif | 9/01 |
| Marsha Gaylord | 5/03 |
| Tufa Dinku | 4/04 |
| Kate Slomkowski | 12/05 |
| Bill Gauthier | 12/13 |
| Tom Hoagland | 9/17 |
4 b kyu |
Leonard Joseph | 12/79 |
| Lloyd Bowden | 4/81 |
| Laura Brose | 12/81 |
| George Emmerthal | 4/83 |
| Phyllis Coco | 9/83 |
| Marc D'Amato | 12/88 |
| Todd Salamon | 4/89 |
| John LeCornec | 12/90 |
| Jennifer Hacket | 4/92 |
| Ken Snyder | 4/92 |
| Debbie Parzuchowski | 12/93 |
| Chris Belliveau | 4/94 |
| Lisa Palasek | 12/95 |
| Hans Hofmann | 4/98 |
| Maura Orrell | 12/98 |
| Scott Dufour | 4/99 |
| Rob Montague | 4/99 |
| Christine Phalstaf | 12/04 |
| Phuc Kim Thieu | 4/05 |
| Justin Billard | 12/05 |
| Tobi Krutt | 12/06 |
| Heather Murdock | 4/09 |
| Ashley Norris | 9/11 |
| Rachel Fairchild | 4/12 |
| Emily Gauthier | 9/13 |
| Pete Dunnack | 4/12 |
| Kim-An Do | 5/15 |
| Drew Cietek | 12/15 |
| Jeremiah Smith | 9/16 |
| Zhenhao (Zen) Gong | 9/19 |
| Peter Graziano | 4/23 |
| John Paul Bracy | 8/24 |
5 kyu |
Lowell Wills | 4/76 |
| Rich Bartlett | 4/76 |
| Larry Rice d | 12/78 |
| Anne Marie Mador | 4/83 |
| Zeus Demetriades | 12/86 |
| Bob Kelly | 12/86 |
| Bruce Mullen | 12/86 |
| Peter Grasis | 12/89 |
| Matt Garcia | 4/92 |
| Lanh Phan | 7/92 |
| Simon Hirschfeld | 12/93 |
| Melissa Gernat | 12/03 |
| Elena Shekleton | 12/03 |
| Pawel Wysocki | 12/08 |
| Roberto Sanchez | 4/10 |
| Jeremy Rosa | 4/10 |
| Rohan Saxena | 4/12 |
| Vi Ha | 7/13 |
| Andre Bracy | 12/19 |
| Eveleen Jiang | 12/23 |
| Ben Oltsik | 8/24 |
5 b kyu |
Olcott Snow | 4/80 |
| Abdo Showah | 12/81 |
| Tom Walker | 12/83 |
| John Rosato | 12/84 |
| Ron Ghen | 4/85 |
| Monique Giroux | 6/85 |
| Darrell Hickman | 4/87 |
| Kim Cygniak | 9/90 |
| Tracy Hornung | 4/91 |
| Mark Lauer | 12/91 |
| Uldis Krievars | 4/92 |
| Sarah Dadyar | 12/92 |
| Jep Peacock | 12/93 |
| Jason Morrill | 4/94 |
| Wojciech "Tek" Wojenski | 4/94 |
| Jenny Pardus | 9/94 |
| Chris Alesch | 12/95 |
| Melissa Morgan | 12/95 |
| Jill Rowin | 4/98 |
| Amy West | 4/98 |
| Hiro Hasegawa | 7/02 |
| Mike Hubbard | 4/06 |
| Susana Ulloa | 4/09 |
| Gabrielle Howe | 7/09 |
| Krissy Palacios-Baughman | 12/10 |
| Mikey Palacios-Baughman | 12/10 |
| Kate Morozova | 5/13 |
| Sam Wong | 12/13 |
| Crystal Xue | 4/14 |
| Shannon Hearn | 7/14 |
| Britny Fowler | 12/14 |
| Guodong (Jason) Hu | 12/14 |
| Song Li | 12/14 |
| Maddie Lesko | 12/14 |
| Agnes Klucha | 12/14 |
| Tori Forrest | 12/14 |
| Volodymyr Serhiyenko | 5/15 |
| Charles Haylock | 7/16 |
| Linkai Zhu | 7/16 |
| Henry Kennell | 4/17 |
| Renjie Chen | 12/17 |
| Jessica Co | 12/17 |
| Stephanie Dee | 5/18 |
| Nate Bracy | 6/16 |
| Dylan Ramratten | 4/22 |
| Sophia Lesko | 4/24 |
| Sarah Mann | 8/24 |
| Autumn Scott | 8/24 |
6 kyu |
Eric Rabenold | 4/75 |
| Peter Anderson | 12/75 |
| Wayne Rawlins | 12/75 |
| Brad Milove | 4/78 |
| Rick LaBash | 12/78 |
| Joan Terlaga | 4/80 |
| Martin Moebus | 4/80 |
| Bob Welsh | 12/82 |
| Martin Wallace | 12/83 |
| Rich Rey | 9/84 |
| Jim Degnan | 12/84 |
| Larry Rubin | 4/86 |
| Claudia Corvalan | 4/87 |
| Jim Parsons | 4/89 |
| Mark Jacobs | 4/89 |
| Mary DeRosa | 4/89 |
| Susan Powell | 4/89 |
| Dean Sposito | 12/91 |
| Sabine Spiessl | 4/94 |
| Jingwei (Andy) Cui | 5/18 |
| Abigail Boyce | 12/19 |
| Uthman Jung | 4/22 |
| Nicole Angelescu | 12/23 |
| Farzad Qurbani | 12/23 |
| Carlo Smith | 12/23 |
| Mya Julian | 4/24 |
6 b kyu |
Gary Burdick d | 12/74 |
| Phil Cody | 12/74 |
| Bill O'Neill | 4/75 |
| Howard Eisenburg | 4/75 |
| Peter Folsom d | 4/75 |
| Roman Slevinsky | 4/75 |
| Dale Fish | 4/77 |
| Lori Sikorski | 12/78 |
| Glenn Cooley | 4/79 |
| Bill Kolodziej | 12/79 |
| Dave Oshinsky | 4/80 |
| Edmer Avlev | 4/80 |
| Mary Jean Hartell | 4/80 |
| Ralph DeAyala | 4/80 |
| Wayne Semon | 4/80 |
| Dan Mercuri | 6/80 |
| Martin Wallace | 4/81 |
| Nancy Anderson | 4/81 |
| Nick Delgado | 4/81 |
| Terri Smith | 4/81 |
| Tim Marugg | 10/81 |
| Scott Weldon | 4/82 |
| Mary Rigdon | 4/83 |
| Gil Wimmer | 12/83 |
| Amy Rommel | 5/84 |
| Holly Sebrell | 5/84 |
| Jim Degnan | 5/84 |
| Mark Robinson | 5/84 |
| Terri Weeks | 5/84 |
| Paul Chartier | 9/84 |
| Tara Horgan | 4/85 |
| Cindy Allen | 6/85 |
| Mary-Rose Earl | 6/85 |
| Larry Stallman | 7/85 |
| Kathy Blake | 12/85 |
| Diana Zarra | 12/86 |
| Chris Johnson | 4/87 |
| Dan Picard | 12/87 |
| Bill Holbrook | 12/88 |
| John Leonard | 12/89 |
| John Wan | 12/89 |
| Preston Rohner | 12/89 |
| Maureen Donovan | 4/90 |
| Max Nuki | 4/90 |
| Andrea Belliveau | 7/90 |
| Chris Fanelli | 12/91 |
| Tim Kennedy | 12/92 |
| Jen Deniega | 4/93 |
| Mersini Fausel | 8/93 |
| Mike Carpini | 4/94 |
| Brian Riley | 4/94 |
| Mark Zagarenski | 7/94 |
| Jason Brigham | 4/95 |
| Jengiz Paluch | 9/96 |
| Samantha Hawes | 9/97 |
| Andrey Kurylov | 4/98 |
| Liam Webb | 4/98 |
| Khaya Yefraimova | 4/98 |
| Nicole Fende | 9/98 |
| Raafat Elfouly | 4/99 |
| Andrew Jin | 9/99 |
| Jason Coleman | 12/99 |
| Jon Jaekle | 5/00 |
| Alex Martinez | 7/01 |
| Jackie Claxton | 5/02 |
| Jenna Formeister | 5/03 |
| Mark Zipadelli | 7/03 |
| Jon Alonso | 4/04 |
| Jaime Pavlich | 12/04 |
| Christine Flannery | 12/04 |
| Onur Burak Celik | 4/05 |
| Ai-chi Lu | 4/05 |
| Russell Port | 4/05 |
| Margaret Sabia | 4/05 |
| Alex Adami | 4/07 |
| Fedja Hodzic | 4/07 |
| Brian Scrabeck | 8/07 |
| Mike Silvia | 4/08 |
| Kelly Shea | 4/09 |
| XingXing Peng | 7/10 |
| John Fitch | 12/10 |
| Chu Zhang | 12/10 |
| Jack Ren | 4/12 |
| Xinyi Yi | 4/12 |
| Tiffany Hoang | 7/12 |
| Kevin Matthews-Tharakan | 5/13 |
| Ashley Zane | 5/13 |
| Peter Zaffetti | 7/13 |
| Katie Shelnitz | 7/13 |
| Samantha Sommer | 7/13 |
| Zihao (Damon) Xu | 7/13 |
| Maria Cintron | 5/15 |
| Bryam Silva | 5/15 |
| Tiyanyi (Lynn) Li | 5/15 |
| Xin Shen | 12/15 |
| Xiaomeng Liu | 4/16 |
| Xinyun Liu | 4/16 |
| Yang Liu | 4/16 |
| Kenny Medina | 4/16 |
| Zhiyuan (Jamie) Jiang | 12/16 |
| Chen Mo | 12/16 |
| Nick Vertefeuille | 12/16 |
| Xiao Fen Yang | 12/16 |
| Ben Palazzo | 4/17 |
| Jordan Williams | 4/17 |
| Jui Chaugule | 7/17 |
| Jephthe (Jeff) Jean | 11/18 |
| Xuejian Gong | 5/19 |
| Carrie Slayton | 5/19 |
| Zhonghui Zhang | 5/19 |
| Sierra McMillan | 5/19 |
| Anna Trapani | 4/23 |
| Ryan Woods | 12/23 |
| Noel Christie | 12/23 |
| Randil Weerasuriya | 12/23 |
| Shaun Supranawicz | 4/24 |
| Dominic Bracy | 8/24 |