31 Mar 2008 - A.J.A. NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
Three National Champions
Mersea island judo club entered five of its most promising players into the Amateur Judo National championships in Birmingham on Sunday 30th March, the club was successful coming back with 3 gold and two silver medals, luke bunyan (10yrs) and Josh Dow (17yrs) both came away with runner up medals, Josh Whiting (13yrs), Craig Bunyan (13yrs) and Jessie Hewes (16yrs) all became National champions, all 5 members will now fight in the british squad and will travel to Holland for an international competition in may. Senior club coach Kate Bredin said ‘our five members performed superbly giving 100% effort in every fight, I am very proud of them all’