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Seven players from the Blue Dolphins – Dongseo’s American Football Club – were recently chosen to join the Korean national team for the International Federation of American Football World Cup preliminaries, which will be held in Stockholm, Sweden in 2015. Of the seven players chosen, three are Dongseo graduate students: Im Seong-Soon, majoring in Marketing; and Jeon Hong-Duk and Hwang Joon-Geun, majoring in Leisure and Sports Science. The other four players selected are undergraduate students: Lee Seung-Hun, majoring in Sports Medicine; Lee Chan-Woo, majoring in Chinese; Shin Hong-Sub, majoring in Business Administration; and Ahn Joon Ho, majoring in Leisure and Sports Science, who is also captain of the Blue Dolphins.

The Blue Dolphins reached the quarterfinals of the Korean American Football Championship last year and won second prize in 2012. The American Football World Cup is held every four years. The Korean team, the Kuwaiti team, and the Japanese team are the only teams to also compete in the Asian World Cup. The Korean team is going to have its first preliminary in Seoul’s Mok-Dong Stadium on May 12th. The Korean American Football Association held training camps four times, starting its selection process in October 2013 to prepare for the upcoming World Cup. An exhibition match between the Busan Griffons, an amateur American football club, and the college union team, helped the Association officials decide on a final list of 45 players. Included in the list are the seven players from the Dongseo team. Blue Dolphins Captain, Ahn Joon-Ho said, “I am so pleased to achieve my dream. I have always wanted to be a member of the national team ever since I started playing American football. I will do my best to achieve good results for the team.”