Team DOUVRIS

Team DOUVRIS comprises DOUVRIS karate Ottawa students whose focus and dedication propels them to the next level. As part of our competitive team, these students make an extra commitment to training and travel. Team DOUVRIS is coached by Master Sensei John and Peter DOUVRIS, who also coach the national karate team.

As part of Team DOUVRIS, members have the opportunity to compete in regional, national, and world karate events. The love of karate motivates team members to train to the best of their abilities, to commit to their championship goals, and to become valued members of the karate community. Our highly effective training and mentorship program provides Team DOUVRIS with the skills to successfully compete and win medals.

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Current and Past Team Douvris Members

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2023 Team Douvris

OH CANADA!!!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR DOUVRIS STUDENTS AND INSTRUCTORS!

Each year, team Douvris members work hard to qualify for the national team and then prepare for the WKC World Championships.

Below are our results, in no particular order:

Olivia Vaughan
GOLD- Traditional weapons
SILVER- Hard Style forms
BRONZE- Point Sparring -50kg (girls 11-12)

Jayce Vergette

GOLD- Point Sparring -70kg (15-17 boys)

BRONZE- Team

Dante Lorusso

GOLD- Point Sparring -80kg (15-17 boys)

SILVER- Open Weight

BRONZE- Team

Nico Campagna

GOLD- Point Sparring -85kg

SILVER-Open Weight (18-21 yrs.)

BRONZE- Team Sparring

Robbie Lavoie

GOLD- Point Sparring -65kg

BRONZE- Team Sparring

Velyien Thomson

GOLD- Team Sparring (15-17 girls)

BRONZE- Point Sparring Open Weight

Remi Collar

GOLD- Point Sparring -55kg (girls 13-14)

BRONZE- Open weight Point Sparring

Finn Nadeau

GOLD- Chinese Soft Style Forms (girls 13-14)

BRONZE- Point Sparring

Cody Diesbourg

SILVER- +35 Point Sparring

BRONZE- -80KG Point Sparring

BRONZE- TEAM Point Sparring

Jose Rios

SILVER- Creative weapons (boys 11-12)

SILVER-Freestyle forms

SILVER- Extreme forms

BRONZE- Open Weight Point Sparring

Gracie Postma

SILVER- Point Sparring Open weight 18-21

BRONZE- -55kg

Noah Poirier

SILVER- -10 boys Open Weight Point Sparring

Clara Rakhra

SILVER- Point Sparring girls 11-12, -45kg

BRONZE- Open Weight Point Sparring

Jolan Nadeau

SILVER- TEAM Point Sparring (boys 15-17)

Jacob Azzi

BRONZE- Boys -10 Point Sparring Open Weight

Melina Poirier

BRONZE- girls 15-17 Point Sparring Open Weight

Michele Lorusso

BRONZE- Point Sparring -75kg 18+

BRONZE- Team Point Sparring

Ben Clarke

BRONZE- Point Sparring -70kg

BRONZE- Team Point Sparring

Keira Longtin

BRONZE- Point Sparring (girls 11-12)

Elizabeth Jaekl

BRONZE- Extreme forms (girls 13-14)

BRONZE- Extreme weapons

Malik Thomas

BRONZE- Hardstyle forms

BRONZE- Classical forms

BRONZE- Team Sparring (18+ men)

2021 Team Douvris

We’re proud of our Team DOUVRIS members. Each year, these team members work hard to qualify for the national team and then prepare for the World Karate & Kickboxing Commission (WKC) World Championships.

Below are our results, in no particular order:

Keagan Goosen – Boys 11 – 12 Years
- 1st trad weapons
- 1st creative weapons
- 2nd point sparring +40 kgs
- 2nd open/musical weapons
- 2nd hard style forms
- 2nd classical forms

Kayli Goosen - Girls 10 & under
- 1st hard style forms
- 1st classical forms
- 1st point sparring + 30 kgs

Jen Goosen
- 2nd Point Sparring +35 years
- 2nd Point Sparring +42 years

Madison Johnson
- 1st Point Sparring 18+ -65kg

Grayson Cardinal – Boys 10 & under
- 1st -30kg - Point Sparring
- 2nd Hardstyle Kata
- 6th Creative Weapons

Anna Nayundi– Girls 10 & under
- 1st Point Sparring under 10 +40 kgs
- 4th Hard Style - Under 10
- 4th Classical - Under 10

Grace Potsma 15-17 years
- 2nd Point Sparring -50k

Malik's results - Boys 15-17 years
- 1st point sparring
- 1st hard style forms
- 2nd classical forms

Daria Saab - Girls 11-12 years
- 4th hardstyle
- 7th classical
- 3rd freestyle
- 5th creative weapons
- 5th musical weapons

Olivia Vaughan Girls -10 years
- 1st 40- kg Point Sparring
- 1st Traditional Weapons
- 2nd Hard Style Kata
- 2nd Classical Kata

Elizabeth Jaekl – Girls 11 – 12 Years
- 7th Hardstyle
- 3rd Classical kata
- 3rd Traditional bo
- 4th Extreme bo
- 4th Creative bo

Sean Ducat - Boys 11-12
- 4th Creative Weapons
- 5th Hard Style kata
- 6th Classical kata

Megan Bowman - Women 18+
- 1st Hard style
- 1st Chinese soft style
- 2nd Classical Kata

Cody Diesbourg – Men 18+
- 2nd Point Sparring - 75kg

Nicholas Couture - Boys 15-17
- 1st Point Sparring -60kg

Sierra Vergette
- 1st in girls 15-17 -50
- 2nd Women’s - 60

Jayce Vergette
- 1st in boys 15-17 -60

Zach Cassidy
- 4th in Boys 15-17 -60

Pascal Boily
5th – 35+ Kata Hard Style
4th – 45+ Kata Hard Style

Émilie-Anne Duval - Kata
2nd - 35+ Traditional kata
2nd - 18+ Hard Style kata
4th - 18+ Classical kata

Ben - Kata
3rd - Men’s 18+ Hard Style

Nico Campagna
1st Mens Point Fighting + 75
Michele's Lorusso – Men’s 18+:
3rd - Point Sparring - 65kg

Dante Lorusso Boys 15-17 a
2nd - Continuous Fighting 75kg
4th - Traditional Kata
4th - Classical Kata
2nd - Point Sparring - 75kg

Sasha – Girls 13 - 14
3rd – Point Fighting – 60kg

Annika - Girls 13 – 14
2nd – Point Fight + 60kg

2019 Team Douvris

Wow Team Douvris!! We did amazingly well!! We are so proud of our Team DOUVRIS members. Each year, these team members work hard to qualify for the national team and then prepare for the World Karate & Kickboxing Commission (WKC) World Championships.

TOTAL GOLD: 19

TOTAL SILVER: 16

TOTAL BRONZE: 17

Nico Campagna:

Point Sparring – GOLD

Light Contact – GOLD

Team Fighting – GOLD

Keagan Goosen:

Traditional Weapons – BRONZE

Team Fighting – BRONZE

Isaiah Lang:

Point Sparring – SILVER

Team Sparring – SILVER

Dante Lorusso:

Point Sparring – SILVER

Team Fighting – SILVER

Michele Lorusso:

Point Sparring – GOLD

Team Fighting – BRONZE

Hannah Morrier:

Point Fighting – SILVER

Team Fighting – SILVER

Zoe Houle:

Point Sparring - BRONZE

Lexi Parsons:

Team Fighting – GOLD

Team Kata – BRONZE

David Patenaude:

Point Sparring – SILVER

Team Sparring – SILVER

Malik Thomas:

Classical Forms – SILVER

Traditional Forms – BRONZE

Robbie Lavoie:

Point Sparring – GOLD

Team Fighting – GOLD

Cody Diesbourg:

Point Sparring – BRONZE

Team Sparring – GOLD

Team Forms – SILVER

Subhadra Shrestha:

Overall Forms Grand Champion

Traditional Forms – GOLD

Classical Forms – GOLD

Team Forms – SILVER

Maeve McColgan:

Point Sparring – GOLD

Team Sparring – GOLD

Team Forms – BRONZE

Kim Hopkins:

Team Forms – BRONZE

Sierra Vergette:

Point Sparring – GOLD

Team Sparring – GOLD

Hardstyle Forms – BRONZE

Jayce Vergette:

Point Sparring – GOLD

Ben Clarke:

Point Sparring – GOLD

Team Fighting – GOLD

Olivia Vaughan:

Point Sparring – BRONZE

Vuk Bilcar:

Classical Forms – GOLD

Team Fighting – BRONZE

Petar Bilcar:

Team Fighting – SILVER

Kristian Sakamoto:

Hardstyle

Hana Sakamoto:

Point Sparring

Teo LeBris:

Point Sparring

Team Sparring

Debbie Lawes:

Point Sparring: BRONZE

Thomas Vakulik:

Open/Musical Weapons: SILVER

Creative Weapons: 5^th place

David Allard:

Team Kata: 4^th place

Amanda Allard:

Team Kata: 4^th place

Traditional Forms: 4^th place

Barry Dworkin:

Creative Weapons: 4^th place

Hannah Noble:

Classical Forms – GOLD

Hardstyle Forms - BRONZE

Laura Morin:

Traditional Forms – SILVER

Remy Collar:

Point Sparring – BRONZE

Team Sparring – SILVER

Ketana Vandenheem:

Point Sparring – BRONZE

Velyian Thomson:

Point Sparring – SILVER

Team Sparring – BRONZE

2018 Team Douvris

GOLD: 29

SILVER: 4

BRONZE: 11

Alejandro Miguelez: FIFTH boys kata U10 trad weapons, GOLD boys LC U10 -30, GOLD boys sparring U10 -30

Rhane Daly Stevens: SIXTH boys kata 15-17 hardstyle, GOLD boys 15-17 LC -65, GOLD boys sparring 15-17 -65

Brigitte Pellerin: SIXTH women kata 18+ hardstyle, SIXTH women kata 18+ classical, SILVER women kata 35+, GOLD women kata 42+, FOURTH women sparring 18+ -60, GOLD women sparring 35+ -65, GOLD women sparring 42+ -65

Cody Diesbourg: GOLD adult team kata, GOLD men sparring -75

Kim Hopkins: FOURTH girls kata U10 hardstyle, SILVER girls kata U10 classical, FOURTH Junior team traditional kata

Subadhra Shrestha: GOLD women kata 18+ hardstyle, GOLD women kata 18+ classical, GOLD adult team kata

Dave Patenaude: BRONZE boys sparring 11-12 +50

Robbie Hughes: GOLD boys kata 15-17 musical weapons, SILVER boys kata 15-17 creative weapons, SIXTH boys kata traditional weapons, SILVER boys sparring 15-17 -70

Jordan Lalonde: BRONZE boys sparring 15-17 -80

Michele Lorusso: BRONZE boys kata 15-17 hardstyle, SIXTH boys kata 15-17 classical, GOLD boys sparring 15-17 -60

Dante Lorusso: SIXTH boys kata 11-12 classical, FOURTH boys sparring 11-12 +50

Kaleb Hihnala: SILVER boys LC 11-12 -40, BRONZE boys sparring 11-12 -40

Alexander Dworkin: FOURTH men sparring 18+ -70

Keagan Goosen: SILVER boys sparring U10 -25

Rhys Collar: SIXTH boys kata 11-12 classical, FIFTH boys sparring 11-12 +50

Remy Collar: FOURTH girls sparring U10 -35

Maeve McColgan: FOURTH Junior team traditional kata, GOLD girls sparring 11-12 -50

Sebastien Belanger: GOLD boys LC 11-12 -45, BRONZE boys sparring 11-12 -45

Ben Clarke: GOLD men kata 18+ hardstyle, GOLD men kata 18+ classical, GOLD men sparring 18+ -60

Kendra Matthews-Gramer: FOURTH women kata 18+ traditional weapons

Zoe Houle: GOLD girls sparring 13-14 -55

Hannah Morrier: BRONZE girls kata 13-14 classical, GOLD girls sparring 13-14 -60

Malik Thomas: GOLD boys kata 13-14 hardstyle, GOLD boys kata 13-14 classical, GOLD boys kata 13-14 traditional weapons, GOLD boys sparring 13-14 -60

Niko Couture: GOLD boys kata 11-12 hardstyle, SILVER boys kata 11-12 classical

Lexi Parsons: FOURTH Junior team traditional kata, SILVER girls sparring 11-12 -40

David Allard: SILVER men sparring 35+ +85

Amanda Allard: BRONZE women kata 35+

Payton Rudder: SILVER boys sparring 15-17 -65

Jevon Rudder: BRONZE men sparring 42+ +85

Una Bilcar: GOLD girls kata U10 classical, FOURTH girls sparring U10 -40

Vuk Bilcar: BRONZE boys kata U10 classical, SILVER boys sparring U10 -30

Sierra Vergette: SILVER girls kata 13-14 hardstyle, GOLD girls kata 13-14 classical, GOLD girls sparring 13-14 -55

Jayce Vergette: SILVER boys sparring 11-12 -50

Emily Richards: BRONZE girls sparring 13-14 -55

Hannah Richards: SILVER girls sparring 11-12 -35

Zach Cassidy: FOURTH boys sparring 13-14 -55

Hinton Thompson: BRONZE boys sparring U10 -35

Velyien Thompson: FIFTH girls sparring 11-12 -45

2017 Team Douvris

Team Douvris spent the last week in Orlando, Florida, to compete in the 2017 WKC World Championships as part of Team Canada. We train very hard for this event, and experience the thrill of measuring our skills against the best sport karate athletes in the world. We are incredibly proud of all our athletes and the hard work they put into their training for this event.

Below are our results, in no particular order:

Subadhra Shrestha: gold classical kata, silver hard style kata, silver team kata, traditional kata grand champion

Cody Diesbourg: silver individual point fighting, silver team fighting

Robbie Lavoie: silver individual point fighting, silver team fighting

Ben Clarke: gold individual point fighting, silver team fighting

Brigitte Pellerin: gold individual point fighting, silver team fighting

Jevon Rudder: gold individual continuous sparring

Nico Campagna: gold individual point sparring, gold individual continuous sparring

Zoë Houle: silver individual point fighting, bronze team fighting

Hannah Morrier: bronze individual point sparring, bronze team fighting

Alejandro Miguelez: silver team continuous sparring

Justine Sénéchal: bronze classical kata, silver individual point fighting

Rhane Daly Stevens: bronze individual continuous sparring, bronze individual point fighting

Niko Couture: gold individual point sparring, bronze individual continuous sparring

Malik Thomas: silver creative weapons, bronze traditional kata, silver individual point fighting, bronze team point fighting

Michele Lorusso: silver team point fighting

Katarina Tessier: silver soft forms

Calvin Foote: silver individual continuous sparring

Jayce Vergette bronze individual point sparring

Sierra Vergette gold individual point sparring, bronze team fighting

Elyse Gorrell gold individual point sparring

Special mention to Alexander Dworkin, Robbie Hughes, Bronwyn Foote, Payton Rudder, Caleb Lang, Isaiah Lang, Catherine Robson and Kimberley Hopkins for their incredibly hard work and great performances.

2016 Team Douvris

Below are the student’s results from the 2016 Nationals:

Ben Clarke
Traditional Team Kata – Gold
Open Team Kata – Gold
Creative Weapons – Gold
Point Sparring – Gold
Musical Weapons – Silver

Rhane Daly Stevens
Continuous – Silver
Point Sparring – Bronze
Classical Kata – Bronze

Patrick Gourde
Point sparring – Gold
Light contact – Gold

Nathan Gourde
Point sparring – Gold
Light contact – Gold

Catherine Robson
Clasical kata – 4^th

Brigitte Pellerin
Traditional kata – Silver
Traditional kata – Silver
Point sparring – 4^th
Point sparring – Silver

Justine Senechal
Team synchro traditional – Gold
Team synchro musical – Gold
Point sparring – Bronze

Alejandro Miguelez
Continuous sparring – Silver
Point sparring – Bronze

Payton Rudder
Chinese Forms – 4^th
Point Sparring – 4^th

Jevon Rudder
Point Sparring – Gold

Zoë Houle
Point Sparring – Silver

Sebastien Belanger
Continuous Sparring – Bronze
Point Sparring – 4^th

Anna Belanger
Point Sparring 42+ – Gold
Point Sparring 35+ – Silver

Katarina Tessier
Point Sparring – Gold
Korean Style – Silver
Chinese/Soft Style – Silver

William Carr
Light Contact – Gold
Chinese Forms – Gold
Point Sparring – 4^th

Megan Bowman
Hard style – 4^th
Classical Kata – Gold
Korean – Silver
Chinese Soft Form – Gold
Traditional Bo – 4^th
Freestyle – Silver
Creative Bo – Bronze
Traditional Group Kata – Gold
Musical Group Kata – Gold

Calvin Foote
Light Contact – Bronze
Point Sparring – Silver

Bronwyn Foote
Light Contact – Gold
Point Sparring – 4^th

Becky Foote
Point Sparring – 4^th

Robbie Hughes
Musical/Open Weapons – 4^th
Creative Weapons – 4^th
Continuous Sparring – Bronze

Malik Thomas
Traditional Kata – Silver
Classical Kata – Silver
Traditional Weapons – Silver
Creative Weapons – Silver
Point Sparring – Silver

Niko Couture
Point Sparring – Gold
Freestyle – Bronze

Sebastian Couture
Point Sparring – Gold

Martina Couture
Point Sparring 42+ – Bronze
Point Sparring 35+ – 4^th

David Patenaude
Point Sparring – Bronze

Taylor Bearss
Point Sparring – Gold

Hannah Morrier
Point Sparring – Gold

Nico Campagna
Hard Style – 4^thLight Contact – Gold
Point Sparring – Gold