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Springs resident is karate US Open champ

Eight years after he started learning karate and two years after he started competing, Coral Springs resident Kyle Montagna knows how it feels to be a champion.

Kyle, a ninth-grader at J.P. Taravella High School, recently won the 14 to 15 year old boy’s creative weapons division in the US Open Karate Championship. Competing against him were black belts from the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and South Africa.

“I just wanted to do well. Winning was not on my mind at all,” said Kyle, a black belt since 2005. “I’ll never be able to explain what I felt when I won. Now that I know how great it feels to win, I want more.

Read the full article in the Sept. 4 issue of the Coral Springs Forum. Arun can be reached at 954-574-5339.


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