Cohen Brothers Judo Club Wins National Championships

Cohen Brothers Judo Club based out of Vernon Hills, Illinois is one of the best clubs in the country. Coached by RJ & Aaron Cohen, son of 1972 Olympian Irwin Cohen.

The team just arrived home from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida where they brought 30 members of their club to compete in the USA Judo Jr. US Open which is an International Competition thats hosts over 650 athletes from over 28 different countries including Israel, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Ukraine, Russia and Brazil.

The club had 5 champions including Danielle Pekler (Vernon Hills), Ben Shvartsman (Deerfield) who was also named the Most Outstanding Judo Athlete of the whole Competition, Jack Rice (Lake Bluff), Mary Minogue (Chicago) & Ellie Keen (Twin Lakes). Ellie also will be traveling to Sarajevo, Bosnia on August 2 to represent USA in the Cadet (U17) World Championships & Abu Dhabi on October 22 in the Jr. (U21) World Championships.

“We could not be more proud of everyone who fought, all the kids worked so hard to get here and they left it all on the mat” said head coach RJ Cohen

We travel around the country to find the best competition possible to prepare us for when it counts. Judo installs these great traits and habits in your head not only for judo but for life.

Our Medalist of the club include:

SILVER MEDALS:

Zoe Bradt, Val Yulianov, Garry Gurevich, Sara Golden-Juvenile A, Sara Golden-IJF, Ellie Keen-IJF,        Julia Shvartsman, Harlee Hiller

BRONZE MEDALS:

Zoe Crecos, Maya Crecos, Adrian Cohen, Tagg Miller, Alex Shvartsman, Adam Bradt

Next up for the club will be mostly technical training to start to prepare for a very strong competition hosted by close friend 1992 Olympic Silver Medalist Jason Morris called the Morris Cup in upstate New York.