Summit Resident Aims for the Olympics

Andrea Katherine Quevedo-Prince, 18, a Summit resident, is shooting for the Olympic Games, Tokyo 2020, where Karate will make its long awaited debut. Only 80 athletes will make it into the first Olympic presentation of Karate.
Andrea won two medals in June in the Boston Open, a national qualifier, Gold in Kata (forms), and Silver in Kumite (combat). The event was sanctioned by the Team USA Karate Federation. She has also won Silver in the New York Open, last April, and another Silver in the Traditional Karate Invitational held in Queens in May. Her sights are set on the Olympic Qualifiers, though. These will run from 2018 through 2020.
Andrea arrived in Summit with her parents last July. Her father teaches Marketing in the MBA program at Pace University, in New York, where she is a Dean’s List premed sophomore. Aside from her sports career, she maintains a perfect academic score, 4.0 GPA, and works as a Gym Assistant in the downtown campus.
Andrea is a second degree Black Belt, and should travel to Tokyo in August to test for third degree. She has won 84 medals in her sports career, nine of them in world events, since Cyprus 2010, and including the XII World Shotokan Karate-do Championship, 16-17 yearold category in 2015. She will return to Japan to defend the podium this summer.