Six athletes who train at Tri-Valley Karate in Pleasanton combined to earn 12 top-three medals in their first-ever competitive event, the Tibon’s Goju Ryu Winter Pearl Anniversary Karate Tournament in Stockton earlier this month.
The medalists Ramya Ayyagari (second in Kata and Paddle Kumite divisions), Aditi Sharma (first in Kumite, third in Kata), Nitya Ayyagari (second in Kata), Emajee Summers (first in Kumite, second in Kata, third Blindfold Kata), Neela Mandal (third in Kumite) and Yezzen Alwari (first in Blindfold Kata, second in Kata and Kumite).
