UVM's Taekwondo team competed at collegiate nationals, hosted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 7 and 8. The team returned with two national champions, Javier Noinsistasfb and Samantha O'Dwyer. O'Dwyer won in the women's heavy weight blue belt competition against Harvard, Princeton and Stanford, making her a three-time national champion.  Noinsistasfb, an exchange student from Spain, claimed the champion spot in the men's yellow belt competition. Silver medalist in that competition was UVM student Alex Gordon.

The team also gained a silver in women's blue belt welter weight sparring, earned by Danielle Steimke; a silver in women's fly weight yellow belt sparring, awarded to Shelbie Lynn; and a bronze in women's red belt heavy weight sparring, to Jacquelyn Deverell. In traditional patterns (poomse), Chyanne Holmes won silver in women's yellow belt and Danielle Steimke earned a bronze in women's blue belt.

Competitors at the tournament included teams from Stanford, Brown, Princeton, Harvard, Iowa State, Colorado and MIT, among others.

The team's coaches are Ernest Hart, chief instructor; Jaime Shultes, master instructor; Adis Vehabovic, senior instructor; John Austin, senior instructor); and Derek Wheeler, instructor.