Lauren in Year 8 now holds a 1^st Degree Black Belt in Taekwando. It’s not called a 1^st Degree for nothing – the minimum time period of training to achieve this is three and half years, and children who start training at a young age often take longer.

Lauren has been one of only a very small group of students to achieve 9 A* Grades in a row through her coloured-belt exams, affording her the title of Club Legend. She always gives 100% at every class and is an amazing role model for the younger (and older) students.

As a coloured belt student, Lauren has distinguished herself at every level in competition, both as part of a team and in individual competitions.  In the team patterns events, along with two of her fellow Daventry students, her team have remained unbeaten, taking Gold Medals at every regional and national tournament that have taken place since the English Championships in March 2018 (where they took Silver at their first competition in new national division, having taken Gold in the British Championships in the lower division at their first attempt in Nov 2017).

In the individual events, Lauren is a multiple Regional Champion, twice National Champion, ITC Open World Champion and Taekwondo International World Champion at performance patterns.  Given that a girl’s belt division at one of these competitions, fields typically between 50 and 80 of the best performers in the country/world, it is really remarkable that Lauren has only once failed to make the top 3 at a tournament since she started competing in November 2017 – and she was ill that day!  She has also won numerous medals for tag-team sparring.

In 2018, Lauren won the title of Daventry District’s Young Sports Person of the Year, and was Runner-up in the Northamptonshire Awards in the same category.  She was also a member of the Daventry District’s Sports Team of the Year in the same year.

Lauren is also a Junior Instructor, having undertaken a six-month training course on how to teach taekwondo!

Gaining a Black Belt with the TAGB is a fantastic achievement – Lauren has not just achieved this; she has done it with style!

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