Karate Canada National Championship Tournament 2024
July 4-7, 2024 in Laval Quebec
The National Championship Tournament remains the entryway to the Karate Canada National Team for karate-ka hoping to represent Canada at the Pan American Junior Championships. This is the elite event from each Province to showcase their best athletes.
Training schedule for Veronica to get to the Provincial team is listed below.
🥋September 2023 Veronica is signed up as a Provincial Team Prospect
🥋October 2023 – Development Clinic #1
🥋November 18 Karate Alberta Provincial Tournament Fall 2023
Kata | Cadet | U16 | Advanced | Female Veronica took 2nd Place with 43.8p
Kumite | Cadet | U16 | Advanced | Open | Female Veronica took 1st Place with 2p
87 athletes medalled, stacked ranked against each other Veronica is tied in 6th with 8 other athletes.
Videos of Veronica’s Katas & Kumite from this event can be found on TIKTOK at https://www.tiktok.com/@karategirl5v5
🥋January 2024 Team Prospect Training Camp. this one was cancelled due to extreme weather conditions
🥋February 2024 Team Prospect Training Camp
🥋March 2024 Team Prospect Training Camp
🥋April 2024 Alberta Provincial Selection Tournament
🥋June 2024 Provincial Team Training Clinic
Financial Commitment
This is a huge financial investment. This is a breakdown of the costs involved for 2024’s trip to Nationals.
This is a comprehensive list of what will be required for her to compete:
Training at clinics & Tournament fees (each session starts at $100+)- Transportation: fuel, airfare, shuttle service,
- Accommodations including hotels & billeting
- Meals, a girl has gotta eat & we do our best to meal plan to ensure our intake of restaurant & fast food is very minimal
- Equipment, 4 Gis ($215 each), 2 sets of gloves ($39 each), 2 sets of shin pads ($61.90 each), body vest($66.67), breast protector, mouth guard, 4 belts, white Bra, white shirt
- Celebration banquet at the National Tournament
- Formal wear for banquet & proper attire for podium presentations
- Team Uniform
- The cost of a legal guardian to travel with her as she is a minor
- Comp Crew $470 for the year
- $15/Kumite class and she must attend 2 a month for local Kumite training