Tyler Phippen, a senior at Tahoma High School, earned a spot on the Junior Olympic Taekwondo team at a team trial fight off at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. Aug. 22.
Phippen will now represent the U.S. at the Junior Pan American Games in San Salvador, El Salvador, Nov. 19-22. Phippen is a second degree black belt and has been training for 10 years with John Phillips at Phillips Taekwondo Center
in Maple Valley.