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Scholarships
2025
So thrilled to announce that Melika Behrooz is the recipient of one of our full year scholarships at TRA Jiu Jitsu! Melika has been training and coaching at Ironbound Performance in Jersey City for 7 years. She is also a full-time medical student studying to be a future family physician! Melika is so dedicated to health and fitness and is already killing it at TRA JJ -- attending several classes a week! We are so excited to have her on the mats! Wanted to thank Thiago Rela for supporting this scholarship and allow us to give people like Melika an opportunity to join this incredible community!

In 2025, we kicked off the year with two $300 martial arts scholarships. One was for the Jersey City Police and Fire Jiu Jitsu Club and another for the the TRA Jiu Jitsu Women's Program. We raised the money with a t-shirt fundraiser where we sold our very first pieces of merchandise! Congratulations to Dria (@deathofthepartyyyy) and Alberto Mauricio (JCPD West) for being the recipients of those scholarships! And a huge thanks to WCAthletic for helping with the shirt production!



2024

Congratulations to Jersey City high school student Jonathan Bispat for winning our first scholarship! Jonathan will have a full year of classes covered at TRA Jiu Jitsu. Thank you to Thiago Rela, JP and everyone at TRA for helping with this scholarship. We are so excited to watch Jonathan take the first steps in his jiu jitsu journey!
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