EVENTS
- Musical Weapons, Creative Weapons, Traditional Weapons, Musical Forms, Creative Forms, Traditional Forms, Soft Style Forms
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS
- Masters of Business Administration in Marketing and Entrepreneurship- Graduating May 2011 from Florida Atlantic University
- Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science from Florida Atlantic University
- Coral Springs Charter High School- Graduated Salutatorian 2003
- Miami Herald Silver Knight Award Finalist
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
- First Competitor to win Nine NASKA World Titles in one year in 2008 and Six NASKA World Titles in one year in 2002
- 10- ISKA World Titles in Forms and Weapons
- Member of Team Paul Mitchell
- Color Commentator for ESPN2 ISKA World Championship
PERSONAL
- Lauren Kearney is 25 years old and has been studying martial arts for twenty years. She is a member of the prestigious Team Paul Mitchell and now works as a part of their executive team. Lauren has coached some of today’s fastest rising talent and manages her own team of youth and adult competitors. Lauren is many things but most notably passionate about the martial arts. It is her drive and passion that has helped her to achieve her own success and now help others to achieve theirs.
DID YOU KNOW …?
- Kearney grew up in a family of four: Mom (Kathy), Dad (Pete), and brother (Chris). At the age of four, after moving to Coral Springs, Kearney began taking gymnastics lessons while her older brother, began training at East West Karate. She learned martial arts from the sidelines for a year before her parents allowed her to join her brother on the floor. Kearney’s first NASKA tournament was in 1995 at the US Open in Orlando, Florida. It would be two years later where she would win her first NASKA first place trophy in fighting.
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Lauren Kearney
