Congratulations to Brett Morehouse, Zinger Yang and Eli Marschner on their recent promotion to SHODAN. The test took place Sunday, December 4th, 2005 at Hill Hall, Tufts University.

Brett is an alumni student at Umass Lowell, and trains with the NECKC club there. Most recently, Brett competed in the Fall 2005 NECKC trounament, where he took first place in the Men's Advanced Individual Kumite event.

Eli is a student at Tufts University, and has been participating in the NECKC for some time. He also competed in the Fall 2005 NECKC tournament. His team took third place in the Advanced Team Kumite. Eli also took third place in Men's Advanced Indiviual Kumite.

Zinger also trains at Tufts University. During the Fall 2005 Tournament, Zinger participated in Team Kata, helping her team to a third place. In addition, Zinger placed second in Women's Individual Kumite.

Congratulations also go out to all the new kyu ranks in the NECKC who promoted this past week. We hope to see all of you return for training in the Spring Semester. Keep up the good work!