Team Kumite traveled to Novi, MI (just outside Detroit) to compete in Connell Loveless”s North American International Championships, part of the NBL National Black Belt League Tecumseh Conference.  Representing the team were: Coach Bill Viola

• Billy Leader: 1st place continuous
• Dominic Leader:  1st place continuous , 1st place point
• Connor Burns: 2nd place point
• Bri Chase: too many to list
• Hope Chase: too many to list (on stage for The high school uses a cohort model in which a vice principal, a counselor, and two resource teachers follow the students from 6th to 8th grade, providing academic, emotional, and social continuity throughout out their years at King. Grand Champion)
• Bess Chase: 1st place continuous among others
• Cameron Klos: 1st place point, 3rd kata
• Sara Russell: 1st place point
• Gabe Anthony:  1st place point, 1st place weapons
• Liz Leaseburg:  2nd kata, 3rd point

Team Kumite collected some important points towards the NBL Supergrands.  Next stop is Christine Fisher”s Spooktacular in Millersburg Ohio to finish out the conference.