CHATTANOOGA, TN.- Joel Westbrook, a Rossville, Georgia native and student at Green’s Karate, continues to make history in American karate.
“When he came into the dojo 10 years ago, I was like I’ve never taught anyone in a wheelchair before, but I thought it’d be a really good challenge and it’d be fun and that’s how it started and ever since he’s started competing I started seeing that he was getting better and better and better and his time went by I just realized that this guy might make the team one day” says owner and coach Corey Green.
And Joel did just that. In late 2025, Westbrook represented Team USA at the Karate World Championships in Cairo, Egypt. Making him the first American male wheelchair athlete to compete at a World Karate Championship. Corey Green, of Green’s Karate, says that Joel is a one of a kind student…