Ang Kalatas Volume V November 2014 Issue | Page 19

THE MESSAGE. BRINGING INTO FOCUS FILIPINO PRESENCE IN AUSTRALIA
www.kalatas.com.au | Volume 5 Number 2 | November 2014

SPORTS

Fil-Aussie siblings shine Youth succumbs
to age
as Taekwondo champs
HOPE runs high in this family from Hoxton Park
southwest of Sydney that one of their own may
someday become an Olympian.
By Violi Calvert

ALL three children in the
Albarico family are state
and national Taekwondo champions. Nine year
old John Michael, Year
4 at Good Shepherd Primary won the Gold Medal in the NSW Taekwondo Open Championship
at the Sydney Olympic
Park last August. Last
year he won Silver in
the Taekwondo National Championship held in
Brisbane.
The only girl in the
brood Kim Angelica,
who is 14 years old and in
Year 8 at Good Samaritan
Catholic College, won
Bronze Medal at the Taekwondo National Championship held in Brisbane, Queensland in October 2013.
The oldest sibling
John Paul won Go