Four Years. Four Championships.
Bailey Heinsohn won the IBJJF Pan Kids Championship four consecutive years, from 2023 through 2026.
Bailey Heinsohn's four consecutive IBJJF Pan Kids championships
From 2023 through 2026, Bailey Heinsohn entered the IBJJF Pan Kids Championship four times and left as champion four times. The divisions, belts, team context, opponents and expectations changed across those summers. The result did not.
The four individual competition pages hold the match records and source material. This is the story of how those four verified results fit together.
2023
Chapter 1
2023 — The First
The 2023 Pan Kids was Bailey Heinsohn's first time competing at the tournament. She was nine years old and entered the Junior 1 Female Grey Belt Light-Feather division, a 20-athlete bracket documented by the official IBJJF athlete list.
Her coach was unable to attend the tournament, so Bailey and her mom were together at the event. Bailey advanced through five recorded opponents and won the final against Journey Emmanuelle Coles to earn her first Pan Kids championship.
- Verified result
- Junior 1 · Female · Grey Belt · Light-Feather (67.00 lb) · 20 athletes
- Event
- 2023 Pan Kids IBJJF Jiu-Jitsu Championship
- Date
- July 23, 2023
2024
Chapter 2
2024 — The Rival
A year later, Bailey returned to Pan Kids as the defending champion. By then she was competing for Art of Jiu Jitsu (AOJ), with a large team around her in Florida rather than the much smaller 2023 experience.
The 2024 championship included a final against longtime rival Ella Desario. Bailey defeated Ella and won the Junior 2 Female Yellow Belt Light-Feather division, making Bailey a two-time consecutive Pan Kids champion.
- Verified result
- Junior 2 · Female · Yellow Belt · Light-Feather (73.60 lb) · AOJ
- Event
- 2024 Pan Kids IBJJF Jiu-Jitsu Championship
- Date
- July 26–28, 2024
2025
Chapter 3
2025 — The Third
By 2025, Bailey entered Pan Kids as a two-time defending champion. She again competed for AOJ, now in the Junior 3 Female Yellow Belt Light-Feather division.
The verified tournament record shows Bailey defeating Érika de Souza Josende in the semifinal and Milanel Mikee Rustrata Aquisap in the final. The third title changed the context of the run: Pan Kids was no longer a first championship or a successful defense, but a result Bailey had now repeated across three consecutive years.
- Verified result
- Junior 3 · Female · Yellow Belt · Light-Feather (80.00 lb) · AOJ
- Event
- 2025 Pan Kids IBJJF Jiu-Jitsu Championship
- Date
- July 26, 2025
2026
Chapter 4
2026 — The Fourth
The 2026 Pan Kids was Bailey's first tournament as an orange belt. It was also the final tournament in her year-long pursuit of the 2026 IBJJF Kids Grand Slam, so the same event carried two separate pieces of unfinished business: a fourth consecutive Pan Kids championship and the final championship needed to complete the Grand Slam.
Bailey won the Teen 1 Female Orange Belt Feather division, defeating Tiana Ka Kei Wan by submission in the final. The result completed the four-year Pan Kids run and the 2026 IBJJF Kids Grand Slam.
- Verified result
- Teen 1 · Female · Orange Belt · Feather (98.00 lb) · Orange belt debut
- Event
- 2026 Pan Kids IBJJF Jiu-Jitsu Championship
- Date
- July 24, 2026
The record
Four consecutive Pan Kids championships
Bailey Heinsohn is a four-time consecutive IBJJF Pan Kids Champion: 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026.
Across the four years
What changed
The run was not four versions of the same tournament. Bailey moved from R1NG BJJ to AOJ, from grey belt to yellow and then orange, and from Junior 1 to Junior 2, Junior 3 and Teen 1. Bracket sizes changed. Opponents changed. The experience around the event changed too — from Bailey and her mom in 2023 to competing within a large AOJ team environment in the years that followed.
By 2026, Pan Kids sat at the end of a different kind of season: Bailey's first orange-belt tournament and the final event needed to complete the 2026 IBJJF Kids Grand Slam. The fourth Pan Kids gold connected that year back to the first championship in 2023.