CAMBERLEY JUDO CLUB

Camberley Judo Club, Deer Rock Road, Camberley, Surrey GU15 4EP

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Paris 2024 Selections!

Camberley Judo Club are proud to officially announce that three members of our Elite Team have been selected for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France!
Sydnee Andrews will make her Olympic debut representing New Zealand at +78kg. Sydnee has already won a Commonwealth Games bronze medal in 2022 and highlights during the qualification period include both Pan Am/Oceania and Croatia Grand Prix bronze medals.
John Jayne will also make his Olympic debut representing the USA at 90kg. The twenty seven year old also had an impressive qualification campaign culminating in a fantastic silver medal at the 2024 PanAm/Oceania champs in Rio.
Ashley McKenzie is the final Olympian selected from CJC-he will be representing Jamaica at 60kg. This will be Ashley’s fourth Olympic Games at the impressive age of thirty five having previously represented Team GB at the London, Rio and Tokyo Olympics. Ashley won both the Morocco and Côte d’Ivoire African Opens and placed 5th at the Austria Grand Prix during qualification.
Camberley head coach Luke Preston will proudly coach for Team Jamaica at the Games. Preston has previously coached for Team GB at London 2012 where Karina Bryant won an amazing bronze medal and for Team England at Glasgow 2014 and Birmingham 2022 where he was head coach.
A special mention must go to Yuliia Kurchenko 78kg representing Ukraine. Yuliia directly qualified for Paris 2024 with some amazing results including Grand Slam gold in Georgia. The 2023 under 23 European Champion has been named reserve for this Games and will look to qualify again for the LA Games in 2028.
We wish all our selected judoka the best and everyone in Camberley will be cheering for you!

 
 

Camberley Judo Club announced as first ever official Commonwealth Judo Training Hub

Camberley Judo Club are delighted to announce that we have been granted official status from the Commonwealth Judo Association to become their first ever officially recognised training hub!
 
This is a great honour and means that judoka from all over the Commonwealth know they have a home and training base at Camberley when needed.
 
The club and training centre has a rich history with the Commonwealth Judo Association having hosted judoka from all over the globe in the last thirty years. In the build up to Birmingham 2022 there are currently athletes living and training at the club from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, Jamaica and Cyprus.
 
In terms of Commonwealth success Camberley has multiple Commonwealth medallists and at Glasgow 2014 our judoka won 3 gold medals. Head coach Luke Preston has 5 Commonwealth medals to his name and was a coach for Team England at Glasgow 2014. At Birmingham 2022 he will lead Team England’s coaching team.
 

Chairman Ben Rosenblatt

 
“Everyone at Camberley is committed to the development of judo in the Commonwealth and we will welcome all athletes to train at our centre. Having on site accommodation means that individuals or teams from the Commonwealth can come to Camberley to live and train for extended preparation periods”

Rick Kenney, President of Commonwealth Judo states

“We are delighted to welcome Camberley judo club as a Commonwealth Training Hub and look forward to hearing how it plays a part in the preparation of Commonwealth teams and individual judoka in the run up to Birmingham 2022”

Camberley Judo Club Elite Schools

We teach before and after schools judo. We also deliver PE lessons during school hours. Our current schools we deliver at are-

South Camberley Junior School  on Thursday afternoons with Coach Nina Solley.

St Augustine’s School on Wednesday mornings with Coach Finlay Allan.

Lakside School on Monday afternoons with Coach Finlay Allan.

Wildridings School on Wednesday afternoons with Coach Reece Howard.

Crawley Ridge Infants

Cove Junior School on Thursday afternoons with Coach Finlay Allan.

Southwood infants on Friday afternoons with Coach Sean Martell.

Alfred Sutton School Reading  on Tuesday afternoon with Coach Benjamin Caldwell and Sean Martel

Church Crookham Juniors on Monday afternoons with Coach Courtney Saunders and Coach Ben Fox-Kennedy.

Luckley House  on Wednesday morings with Coach Courtney Saunders and Coach Ben Fox-Kennedy.

Fernways school on Thursday afternoons with Coach Courtney Saunders and Coach Ben Fox-Kennedy.

North Farnborough Infants on Thursdays with coach Sophie Clarke.

Cordwalles  on Wednesday’s PE lessons and Thursday afternoons with Coach Nina Solley, Coach Finlay Allan and Coach Sam Walker.

If you would like judo offered at your school please email carlycamberleyjudoclub