International Martial Arts Association of Utah

🏆 Jack Divricean - Athlete of the Year 2025

Jack was presented with his Athlete of the Year award this past weekend in Fort Worth, TX. What an amazing achievement!! 🎉

Huge congratulations to Jack for bringing home 4 medals last weekend from the USA Open and Junior International Cup in Fort Worth, TX!

JIC 🥉🥉
USA Open 🥈🥉

➡️ Next Stop: IMA Rocky Mountain Championship

Congratulations to the IMA Utah Team at the High Caliber Denver last weekend! We had some AMAZING results and each one of our SIX athletes showed immense karate spirit, bringing home EIGHT medals in total!:

Jack (6-7 Novice)
Kata 🥇 Kumite 🥇 King of the Ring 🥈

Pfeiffer (10-11 Novice)
Kumite 🥇 King of the Ring 🥈 Kata 🥉

Romey (14-15 Int/Adv)
Kata 🥈

Elijah (16-17 Elite -68kg)
Kumite 🥇

Everett (12-13 Adv) ❎
Paul (10-11 Beginner) ❎

Thank you to all of the parents for their truly remarkable support of this team and to the Dojo By Karate Bros for hosting another amazing tournament yet again!

The future of IMA Utah is here!!

Huge congratulations to Jack Divricean for being selected as the Karate Male Athlete of Year (Beginner/Novice)! Here were his results for 2025:

High Caliber Denver 🥇🥇
Junior International Cup 🥇🥈
USA Open 🥉
Rocky Mountain Championship 🥇🥉
Utah State Championship 🥇🥇
USA Karate Nationals 🥇🥇
IMA Championship in Utah 🥇🥉

We are all so proud of Jack and his hard work that led to these amazing results. He has an amazing group of people supporting him and he will be back even stronger this year.

We wish him and the rest of the IMA Utah Team the best of luck for the 2026 Season! 💪

The holidays are almost here, and so is our Dojo End of the Year Party! Join us for an evening celebrating a year of growth and achievement with our students, families, and friends.

📅 December 6th, 2025
🕕 6:00–8:30 PM
📍 Expedition Superstore – 22195 S Presidents Dr, Suite C, West Valley City, UT 84120

We’re also so grateful to our amazing friends who opened their space for us while our usual venue is under construction, and to Chick-fil-A for contributing a portion of the food, helping us keep the focus on supporting our athletes!

Congratulations to all of the IMA Utah athletes last Saturday at the IMA Championship in Utah!! We are very proud of everyone's performances, let's keep up the good work!

8 Athletes

5 Gold Medals 🥇
4 Silver Medals 🥈
5 Bronze Medals 🥉

14 TOTAL 👊

We’re excited to share our brand-new, custom IMA Utah Spirit T-Shirts, created especially for the students, families, and friends of our dojo!

Every shirt you preorder directly supports the Training Champions Foundation and helps our team show unity at the upcoming IMA Championship in Utah this October.

These tri-blend t-shirts are super comfortable, high quality, and perfect for showing your dojo pride. Don’t miss your chance to preorder before September 27th!!

Preorder your custom t-shirt at imautah.com/spiritshirt today!

Join us on October 11th for the 18th IMA Utah Tournament Clinic, now more fun and more exciting than ever! The clinic features Team Kumite in a fresh new format, welcoming all ages and levels!

The clinic will cover the rules of competition for kata (form), kumite (sparring), & Team Kumite, followed by a competition at the dojo. Students will experience the thrill of Team Kumite, compete with their friends, and leave with the knowledge, experience, and confidence to start competing in local and national tournaments.

For more information, visit www.imautah.com/tournament-clinic!

Congratulations to Jack at the 2025 USA Karate Nationals! 🥇🥇

He did an amazing job and got two gold medals in his division. 🎉

Happy 4th of July from the IMA Utah family!!!