Jennifer Lue, a Graduate student and founder of the Kendo club, found her love for the art during her time studying abroad in Tsukuba, Japan. Her love for the sport led her to stay in Japan for 17 years.

Eight-don is the highest possible rank for a kendo master. Lue is a five-don, a kendo master with hopes to become a six-don.

Logan Lewis, a freshman at the University, has recently taken up kendo. “It has been great and super welcoming, and the club has made me want to commit to this. You cannot teach real kendo without teaching the spiritual side, and Jennifer teaches traditional kendo.”

The kendo club meets in room 47 of the University of Oregon recreation center every Monday and Tuesday. Kendo, the modern Japanese martial art of fencing inspired by samurai warriors, was recently brought to the University of Oregon two years ago.