Andrea Katherine Quevedo-Prince, 18, a Summit resident, is shooting for the Olympic Games, Tokyo 2020, where Karate will make its long awaited debut.
Andrea, a Pace University Dean’s List PA Track premed sophomore, won the US National Championship in Shotokan Kata in July, competing in an event sanctioned by the USA Karate Federation and billed as The South Carolina Nationals and Team Trials, held in Greenville, SC.
With this Gold, she has won five medals in 2017: Gold and Silver in the Boston Open in June, Silver in the New York Open last April, and another Silver in the Traditional Karate Invitational held in Queens, NY, in May. Her sights are set on the Olympic Qualifiers, though, and these will run from 2018 through 2020.
Aside from her sports career, which is reflected in 85 medals, nine of them in world events, since the World Cup in Cyprus 2010, when she was 12, and including the XII World Shotokan Karate-do Championship, in the 16-17 year-old category, in 2015, she maintains a perfect academic score, 4.0 GPA, she is a Gym Assistant at Pace’s NYC Campus, and was just drafted as a staff writer for The Chronicle. She is also involved in a Faculty – Student Research project that is building predictive models for the non-profit sector of the US.
A ndrea is a second degree Black Belt; she is a member of the USA Karate Federation and the World Shotokan Karate-do Federation; she is promoting the Pace University Karate Club; and she should travel to Tokyo in August to test for third degree, but most importantly perhaps to defend the podium for the fourth time in a row.
(above) Summit resident, Andrea Katherine Quevedo-Prince, 19, a Pace University Dean’s List PA Track pre-Med sophomore, won the US National Championship in Shotokan Kata in July. The event is sanctioned by the USA Karate Federation, and billed as The South Carolina Nationals and Team USA Trials, held in Greenville, SC.
