Charlee Minkin
{{Short description|American judoka (born 1981)}}
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{{MedalSport | Women's Judo}}
{{MedalCountry | the {{USA}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|Pan American Games}}
{{MedalSilver| 2003 | Half Lightweight}}
{{MedalSport | Women's Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu}}
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{{MedalCompetition|IBJJF Pan Am Championships}}
{{MedalGold| 2011 | }}
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Charlee Minkin (born November 13, 1981) is an American Olympic judoka.[https://www.judoinside.com/judoka/11404/Charlee_Minkin/judo-career Charlee Minkin, Judoka, JudoInside] She won three national titles (2000, 2002, and 2004), and won the silver medal in the women's half lightweight division (–52 kg) at the 2003 Pan American Games. In 2011 she won the gold medal in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu at the IBJJF Pan Am Championships.
Early and personal life
Minkin was born in Half Moon Bay, California. She is Jewish, was bat mitzvah, and attended Congregation Beth Israel-Judea in San Francisco.{{cite news|url=https://www.jweekly.com/2004/08/06/cover-story-br-a-hard-knock-life/|title= COVER STORY: A hard-knock life" |author= Eskenazi, Joe | date=August 6, 2004|work= The Jewish News of Northern California|access-date = April 27, 2023}} Her mother is Carolyn Minkin (a black belt), her father, former Green Beret Stephen Minkin, died in a plane crash when she was five years old, and she has three siblings, Zisa, Ben, and Davina (trained in Israel for a year with Olympic medalist Yael Arad).[https://books.google.com/books?id=NyIun0ka0yYC&dq=%22Charlee+Minkin%22&pg=PA255 Yiddishe Mamas: The Truth About the Jewish Mother - Marnie Winston-Macauley ] She attended Brandeis Hillel Day School in San Francisco. She then attended the University of Colorado Colorado Springs.
Judo career
Minkin has been coached by Ed Liddie.
In 1998 she won the silver medal in the Pan American U20 Championships (–52 kg). Minkin won three national titles (2000, 2002 (as her older sister Davina won the 57 kg gold medal), and 2004; –52 kg)) and five continental titles.[https://books.google.com/books?id=dAq4TGQsWwwC&dq=%22Charlee+Minkin%22&pg=PA120 Day by Day in Jewish Sports History - Bob Wechsler]
Minkin won the silver medal in the women's half lightweight division (–52 kg) at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
She represented her native country at the age of 22 at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Women's 52 kg in Athens, Greece.[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418090721/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mi/charlee-minkin-1.html Charlee Minkin Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com]
Career after judo
In 2005, she began a career as a personal trainer.{{Cite web |url=http://thesanctuarybjjandfitness.com/instructors/charlee-minkin/ |title=Jiu Jitsu Lakewood CO {{!}} Sanctuary Brazilian Jiu Jitsu & Fitness |access-date=2018-03-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321213158/http://thesanctuarybjjandfitness.com/instructors/charlee-minkin/ |archive-date=2018-03-21 |url-status=dead }} In 2007, Minkin began working as a police agent for the Lakewood, Colorado, Police Department. In 2009, she began to train in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and won the gold medal at the 2011 IBJJF Pan Am Championships.
See also
References
Source
- {{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mi/charlee-minkin-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418090721/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mi/charlee-minkin-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-18 |title=Charlee Minkin}}
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