This is another page of photos we are asked for a lot. The ones below are Ronda at 14 (with our head coach, Trace Nishiyama, at Venice Judo Club in the Venice Japanese-American Community Center), and at 16 and now at 17.

The second row of pictures is Ronda and mom. (The red and white belt is worn by people who are sixth-degree black belts or higher.) Also, Ronda and her friends - Anna Palmer, Ronda (in the middle) and Tara Clark (on the right) were all on the junior Panamerican team. We are often asked for pictures of Ronda when little or of Ronda's father, who died when she was eight. The littler blonde is Ronda at age three. The bigger one is her sister Jennifer, at age four. The last two pictures are of Ronda throwing and of Ronda's mom, AnnMaria, after winning the 2003 Panamerican Games.