During his college and law school years at Ohio University and Ohio State, Sensei Rothenberg trained under Greer Golden (of blessed memory). Sensei Rothenberg was on Ohio University’s three-man kata team, which placed first at the 1974 AAKF national tournament. In individual kata, he placed first in the ISKF’s collegiate division in 1978; and third in the ISKF’s open division in 1985, behind Hiryoshi Okazaki, the ISKF’s current chief instructor. Sensei Rothenberg also received the ISKF MidAmerica region’s Meritorious Service Award.