The Husky TKD club has a head coach who oversees competition preparation of its members and instructors who lead the sparring and poomsae practices in addition to helping develop the curriculum.

Instructors

Jeremy Fredricks (sparring)

Jeremy is a 4th Dan black belt. Before coming to UW to start a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, he spent his undergrad years training with the Cornell Sport Taekwondo Team under Grandmaster Han Cho in New York. During this time, he competed in the Eastern Collegiate Taekwondo Conference (ECTC), was selected to be a part of the ECTC 2015 All-Star Team, and was nominated for ECTC sparring athlete of the year. Before college, he trained with Master Dennis White in Florida. He enjoys both forms and sparring aspects of taekwondo. His hobbies include sending emails with fun facts in them. Contact information: tkdclub@uw.edu

Anthony Shinn (sparring)

Anthony is a 4th Dan black belt. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and previous member of their taekwondo team. He brings over 15 years of TKD experience to the club.

Assistant Instructor – Botao Shan

Botao (Bo) is a former VP and recent alumni of the club. He started taekwondo with the club as a sophomore while pursuing a B.S. in MCD Biology. During his time in the club, he competed in both sparring and poomsae, medaling gold in sparring and silver in poomsae (blue belt) at the 2019 NCTA Championships in Austin, and bronze in sparring at the 2019 AAU Nationals (red belt). He is currently working as a Clinical Lab Technician at UW Virology while applying to medical school. His hobbies include hiking, eating good food, and playing League.

Head Coach (수석교범)

Catherine Tong (poomsae)

Catherine (Cat) has over 9 years experience in Taekwondo. She started Taekwondo as a sophomore at Cornell University under Grandmaster Han Cho. During her time in Ithaca, she competed with the Cornell Sport Taekwondo Team in the Eastern Collegiate Taekwondo Conference (ECTC) in both poosame and sparring. As a poomase instructor during her senior year, she led the Cornell team to its most successful competition poomsae record. When she moved to Boston to start her Masters Degree at the Boston University School of Public Health, she continued her training with Master Dan Chuang at CW Taekwondo at Boston. She continued competing in both sparring and poomsae with the t.Bos Competition Team, traveling with the team all over the country for local, national and international events. Highlights of her competition experience include earning silver in the Female Senior 1 Team Poomsae division as part of the US National Team at the 2018 Pan Am Championships in Spokane, WA, and earning bronze at the 2015 Pan American University Taekwondo Championships at West Point for sparring. Catherine was also an instructor at the CW Taekwondo Boston where she taught adult Taekwondo classes as well as cardiokickboxing classes. When she moved to Boulder, CO in 2016, she became the poomsae instructor at the Korean Academy of Taekwondo in Aurora, CO. Catherine became an instructor for the Husky Taekwondo Club when she moved to Seattle late 2019. She is currently the head coach and lead poomsae instructor for the club. During the day, she works as a Program Analyst for the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Washington.

Demo Team Captain (시범단장)

Kaitlin Beel