Awards Day Success 2022

Written on the 14 November 2022

Big thank you too all who attended the GIANT Awards BBQ party! Awesome to had seen such a large turnout of members and their families in attendance. Thank you to all the Student leader members, parent volunteers and Demo Team that helped throughout the day.

In addition to great weather, the day brought a good sense of community and we trust everyone enjoyed themselves! Huge congratulations to Antonia & Chris Gregoriou who were presented with their official Black Belts by our Master Ryoo and to Nick Papadopoulos on achieving his Blue belt in BJJ. All had great speeches which shared memorable moments in their journey's and provided inspirational advice to the junior peers in the audience. Great examples of what it is to be a GIANT!

A special thanks coach Bill on the BBQ and to all parents who brought along a dish of their culture, so many great choices of food to choose from. Looking forward to next year already!

Awards and recognition are as follows:

Hapkido Black Belt Recipient:

1st Degree Black Belt - Chris and Antonia Gregoriou

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu New Belt Recipients:

Nicholas Papadopoulos - Blue Belt

Competitors of the Year:

Chris Gregoriou for numerous events and Gold Medals in the Kickboxing circuit

Student Leaders of 2022:

The team in Blue is looking strong for 2022, we recognise them as follows:

Mentor Level 3

Chris Gregoriou, Jasmine Vasilevski

STORM Level 2

Anthony Baladi, Kara Giardullo, Anna Glinatsis, Rosemary Goncalves, Karim Hijazi, Kelly Liu, Kamal Mourad, Tracy Yao

SWAT Level 1

Fotini Apostolidis, Christopher Attieh, Johnny Hoang, Nikolas Howley, Lamar Mourad, Marco Savignano, Nadia Savignano, Dimitri Stavropoulos, Justin Stojanovski