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Employee Press Union Scrapbook Taekwondo
champ is union child
Local 1549 member
Jacqueline Scott is very proud of her daughter.
Brittany Elizabeth Scott
was a shy 7-year-old in 2002 when she and her dad, Alphonso Scott, enrolled together
in a class offered by the Taekwondo Institute of Queens. Dad had to withdraw because
of knee surgery, but his daughter kept going and going as the summer
experiment awakened her passion for excellence.
Now 13, Brittany Scott
has earned a second-degree black belt in the karate-like Korean martial art and
is working on her third. She began entering competitions at 9 and last summer
she placed third in the U.S. Nationals. She also won the 2nd place silver medal
in the Junior Olympics. This summer she will compete again in the U.S. Nationals
in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
The 8th grade student at Most Precious Blood Catholic
school in Queens is also on the honor roll and a member of the schools swim
team.
She really knows how to handle herself now, said Jacqueline
Scott, an Eligibility Specialist at Food Stamps F43 in Queens. My husband
was all for this. I love it too, but I still watch with my eyes closed! | |