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Katie Jordan, 16, of South Portland won seven medals at the World Organization Of Martial Arts Athletes from August 16th to the 24th in Killarney, Ireland. Jordan won four gold medals in tradtional forms, tradtional weapons, open forms, and open weapons. She also tearned a silver medal in self defense, a bronze in overall forms, and was crowned the overall grand champion in the night show.
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Jay is in his eleventh year working in the sports department at the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. A former All-State track athlete for Old Orchard Beach, football and volleyball player at the University of East Anglia, and cheerleader for the University of Maine Black Bears, Jay has dabbled in a variety sports over the years. In 2001 he had the pleasure to begin training in mixed martial arts with Master Seung Choi, the late founder of the Choi Institute of Martial Arts and Science. Though Jay has turned his attention to road racing since the master passed away in 2005, his interest and enthusiasm in MMA has remained. He recently finished the MDI Marathon and is looking forward to exploring Greece with his wife Erin in the spring.
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