Dakota

2025 WV DISTRICT 🥈🥉x2 2025 VA STATE🥇 🥈🥉2025 NC STATES🥇x2🥈🥉Finished the school year all As and Bs on his report card

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Voting for the TOP 20 ends Thursday the 7th of August at 7PM PDT

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What do they love most about playing their sport(s)?

I love the honor, discipline and tradition of what martial arts brings to my life. I also love meeting new friends at the tournaments I go to.


Who inspires them—on or off the field—and why?

I not only is inspired by the students that are in the dojo with me on a daily basis and in these tournaments. But I also is inspired by my dad who used to take martial arts, took a break and came back and is in full force that inspires me to keep on going


What’s one moment in their athletic journey that makes you proudest?

The proudest moment in my athletic journey with would have to be when I got his gold medal in the Junior Olympics in board breaking. I broke 10 boards in 11 and 1/2 seconds.

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