Volume 40, number 1/2/3
January/February/March
PNKF KENDO SHINSA, February 7th, 2026, Shoreline, WA
6 KYU: Sana Lee (Cascade), Hugo Park (Kirkland), Kenichi Suehisa (Cascade), Bennett Nonaka (Northwest), Dylan Lee (Northwest), Catherine Shin (Cascade), Adrian Lee (Northwest), Sabin Breitling (Northwest)
5 KYU: Roy Shin (Cascade), Bohmi Park (Kirkland), Ryleigh McClellan (Kirkland), Peter Brammeier (Evergreen), Deklan McClellan (Kirkland), Brad Nonaka (Northwest)
4 KYU: Magnus Hayes (Kent), Philip Oh (Evergreen), Kanoa Park (Kirkland), Evan Oh (Evergreen), Luke Oh (Evergreen), Soki Sinex (Kirkland), Hajun Yun (Evergreen), Ethan Young (Evergreen), Duy Dao (Evergreen), Berdon Parsons (Seattle), Denise Mauldin (Highline), Athanasios Siopis (Highline), Makiko Hori (Seattle), Simone Wu (Kirkland)
3 KYU: Raven Lee (Bellevue), Violett Lapitan (Kirkland), Yusei Matsumoto (Lilac City), Jonathan Tao (UW), Charlie Wong (UW), Davon Belvin (Evergreen), Qing Chen (Kirkland), Yvette Phan (Federal Way), Alina Soto (Northwest), Rich Nakatsu (Seattle), Kwang Kim (Evergreen)
2 KYU: Cameron Ridler (Kirkland), Juubei Kiyohara (Federal Way), Asher Hansen (UW), Caitlin Dong (UW), Lucy Hwangbo (UW), Shin Wu (Northwest), Adya Sengupta (UW), Daniel Gugig (UW), Alex Blair (Lilac City), Jungtae Kim (Evergreen), Sam Winston (Idaho)
1 KYU: Kenji Rafael (Edmonds), Nathan Kim (Northwest), Seiji Lee (Bellevue), Tadeo Soper (Lilac City), Rowen Nollette (Lilac City), Malia Kubodera (UW), Moya Nollette (Lilac City), Heather OCorry-Crowe (UW), Toby Kodera (Bellevue), Jackson Songy (Kirkland), Lucas Naylor (Bellevue), Theo Leao Larrieux (Northwest), Evan Kirkpatrick (UW), Isabelle Martin (UW), Cassie LaDuke (Tacoma), Courtney Haney (Lilac City), Marcelo Cunningham (Seattle), Michael Fontana (Northwest)
1 DAN: Isaac Selle (Spokane), Clara Kim (Northwest), Jorin Kiyohara (Federal Way), Kirihiro Onishi (Obukan), Joey Matsuno (Obukan), William Le (UW), Kiana (Ai) Fukuda (UW), Emi Wong (UW), Anya-Rose Kelly (UW), Anson Choi (SCKF), Suji Jang (UW), Yisa Wu (UW), Andi Anderson (Seattle), Caleb Foster (Redmond), Joseph Bernal (Highline), Chad Emerick (Portland), Yoji Konno (Kirkland), Domonic Ceccarelli (Obukan), Creighton Don (Bellevue), Devon Harper (Lilac City), Jeoung Hee Ahn (Sno-King), Michiyo Okuhara (Camas)
2 DAN: Emerson Lau (Bellevue), Alexander Field (Federal Way), Taisei Summerhays (Kenchikai), Kaleb Borum (Lilac City), Majestik Remmu (Seattle), Byron Walker (Highline), Hsi-Hao Keng (Kent), Scott Fleishman (Portland), Jingyi Zhang (Northwest), Timothy Jaybush (Bellevue), Sean Wales (Northwest), Fumiko Munakata-Mergens (Edmonds)
3 DAN: Sean Kim (UW), Kyle Fukuda (Edmonds), Alec Yuen (UW), Chihiro Hayashi (Edmonds), Luiz Fernando Amorim Ribeiro (Idaho), Jin Pak (Evergreen)
4 DAN: Ian Yoshikawa (Tacoma), Ta-Shan Yao (Seattle)
PNKF JODO SHINSA, March 15th, 2026, Seattle, WA
1 KYU: Bryan Carmin-Molina (Hoshu Seattle)
1 DAN: Stuart Hagler (Hoshu Portland), Sean Matheis (Hoshu Seattle)
46th HIGHLINE CHALLENGE CUP TAIKAI, March 16, 2026, Seattle, WA
Mudansha
1st Place – M. Fontana (Northwest)
2nd Place – T. Leao (Northwest)
3rd Place – L. Naylor (Bellevue)
3rd Place – B. Ridler (Kirkland)
4th Place – H. O’Corry-Crowe (UW)
4th Place – H. Sato (Kirkland)
4th Place – A. Perez (Kirkland)
4th Place – M. Cunningham (Seattle)
Team Champion: Kirkland
Yudansha
1st Place – S. Fleishman (Portland)
2nd Place – M. Tuy (Bellevue)
3rd Place – D. Quach (Seattle)
3rd Place – P. Chang (Kirkland)
Sportsmanship Pledge: A. Siopsis
Shimpancho: N. Grimes-Perez
PNKF IAIDO SHINSA, March 29th, 2026, Seattle, WA
3 KYU: Caden Langman (Shuukenkai), John Labriola (Shuukenkai), Tyler Calkin (Shuukenkai), Emerson Lenon (Shuukenkai), Jammie Taylor (Shuukenkai)
2 KYU: Elizabeth Lee (NCKF), Hochan Yi (Tacoma), Devon Harper (Lilac City), Becca Jubie (AiShinKai), Yihan Wang (Seattle), Patrick Frost (Idaho)
1 KYU: Arturo Lopez (NCKF)
1 DAN: Robert Wright (Tacoma), Richard Ung (NCKF), Dorothee Liebschner (NCKF), Chikako McNutt (Idaho)
2 DAN: Tien Vo (AiShinKai)
3 DAN: Wakako Maeda (Idaho)