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USJA / USJF Grass Roots Roster

What is the USJA/ USJF Grass Roots roster and why do we need one?

This junior point roster is a combination of the points from the USJA and USJF rosters.  Each tournament will receive 5 points for first, 3 for second and 1 point for third. The USJA and USJF have collaborated on a number of activities, for example, the Rising Stars Tour to Wales last summer, the camp in San Diego in December. Currently, there is not an objective way to select athletes. If a member of the development committee sees an athlete at a local tournament, he or she may be invited to apply to an event. We give out flyers at state championships and junior nationals. What if you live in a state that doesn’t have a state championships and your coach is like most people, he or she works a regular job, teaches judo and doesn’t meet people at national meetings to tell them how great of a player you are growing to be. How do you get noticed?

There are other point rosters, but they have come to include so many tournaments that it seems that the person who has the most money or who is lucky enough to live closest to the most tournaments may be the highest in points. Since the USJA and USJF support these events, we decided to take two tournaments and add the points for those. Even if you only can attend one tournament this year, if you win one of these premier tournaments that guarantees you will be in the top three on the roster. If you win both, you are number  one.

This roster was compiled from the results submitted by the tournament directors of the 2007 USJA and USJF Junior Nationals.  If you find any errors on here, if you placed and your name is not included, please email drannmaria@fractaldomains.com       There are many players for whom we did not have a record of a club. If you would like to send me that information as well, I would be happy to update the roster.

 

Last year, the winner of the USJA Junior Nationals was able to attend camp after the USJA Junior Nationals for free. This applied to players in ALL AGE DIVISIONS.  This year, again, the Junior Nationals Camp will be free to all USJA junior national gold medalists as well as to the number one player on the point roster.

We also have international opportunities coming up this summer, although at present all of those are for age 13 and over.  Look back here next month for more details.