UCC Judo

26/02/2026

a whole semester too late but here is our judo committee for 25/26 😌

16/12/2025

Well done to all our players who competed at the All-Irelands last weekend !!
The team came home with an incredible 4 medals 🏅
✨ Robyn Deegan – Silver in Senior and Bronze in Junior
✨ Laura Crncec – Bronze in Senior and Silver in Junior
Fantastic results and a huge well done to everyone who competed. We’re very proud! ☠️🔥🥋

23/11/2025

A fantastic couple of weeks for past few weeks for UCC Judo club! 🥋✨☠️
Our team brought home 10 medals from the West of Ireland Open in Galway and 8 medals from the North West Open in Derry — plus a perfect kata result!
Here’s how they did:

West of Ireland Open – Galway
🥉 Eve Zini – Junior
🥉 Robyn Deegan – Junior | 🥈 Senior
🥈 Aishling O’Brien – Senior | 🥉 Lower Kyu
🥉 Laura Crncec – Senior
🥉 Ashik Rahman – Senior
🥈 Jack Maxwell – Upper Kyu
🥉 Jai Ravindran – Upper Kyu
🥉 Pierce Scully – Upper Kyu

North West Open – Derry
🥉 Laura Crncec – Senior | 🥇 Junior
🥈 Robyn Deegan – Junior | 🥇 Senior
🥇 Jai Ravindran – Kyu
🥈 Kevin Liu – Kyu
🥇 Ashik Rahman – Senior

Special congratulations to Kevin Liu for passing his kata course with full marks!
Huge well done to everyone — incredible effort from the whole team 👊🥋

06/10/2025

social october 9th! hope to see you all there :)

20/06/2025

This weekend, a group of our dedicated judokas (Laura Cerncec, Ashik Rahman & TJ Palmer - medical officer Kevin liu - Former UCC Women's Champ Soraya Vazifehshenas whose hosting them) will step onto the international stage as they represent University College Cork at the prestigious Internal Judo Tournament Venray in the Netherlands! 🌍🔥

Competing against some of the best from across Europe, our athletes are not just fighting for personal success — they're proudly wearing the UCC colours and flying the flag for our club, our university, and Irish student judo. 🇮🇪🎓

Good luck, team — UCC is behind you all the way! 🖤❤️

Final fights will be live streamed link will be up on the UCC Judo story.

15/06/2025

🎉🥋 Big congratulations to Ashik Rahman who achieved his 1st Dan at the last Dan Grading. He now is 1 of only 3 judoka who began judo in UCC to reach this milestone within their academic cycle, achieving this at a record pace of under 3 years!
He will now go on to compete in the Dutch Open this weekend with the team representing the college in the u66kg category.
Best of luck and Congrats!🎉🥋👊

19/02/2025

Hi All,
UCC Judo is happy to announce we are hosting this year's Judo Intervarsities here in the Mardyke Arena this Saturday from 9am - 6pm.
Spectators are welcome.
We will see you all there. 🥋😁

11/11/2024

Massive congratulations to our talented judokas who competed this weekend at the Munster Cup🥋

This weekend, our team showed incredible skill and determination, bringing home a total of 17 medals!

🥇 Gold Medals
• Mia
• Alex
• TJ
• Clara

🥈 Silver Medals
• Roni
• Ashik
• Isa
• Edward

🥉 Bronze Medals
• Aoife
• Alex
• Josh
• Jai
• Paul
• Nathan
• Daragh Crowley
• Mathew

A huge thank you to everyone who trained hard and represented our club with such pride this weekend!🥋

14/10/2024

09/09/2024

With the start of the new 24/25 academic year, this will be our training schedule.

Come join us at training at any of the times mentioned above!!! If you are a beginner or you have experience we would be more than delighted to have you join us for training🥋⚡️

03/03/2024

Inter-Varsities 2024 ✅️

We had a BIG representation at the Intervarsities over the weekend!

Our team of 18 travelled the ENTIRE length of the country to Derry to compete in a mixture of novice, advanced, individual and team events.

The long bus journey did not stop us as we went on to win a haul of over 20 medals.

We took home 3 Gold medals, 8 Silver and 10 Bronze, including the "Male Player of the day" award, silver in the Women's Team event and bronze in the Men's Team event.

Thanks to for hosting a brilliant competition for all levels.

Well done people, very proud

☠️🔴⚫️🥋