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USA Archery Junior Team Captures Most Medals at the 2008 Youth World Archery Championships in Antalya, Turkey |
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by Cecil Bleiker - USA Archery (719-866-4608)
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For Immediate Release
October 23, 2008
USA Archery Junior Team Captures Most Medals at the 2008 Youth World Archery Championships in Antalya, Turkey
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The USA Archery Junior Team that competed at the 2008 Youth World Championships in Antalya, Turkey, October 7-12 ended the event in first place in the overall medal count winning a total of eight medals (six gold medals and two silver medals).
Individual gold medalists for the United States include Joey Hunt III (Minot, Maine/Compound Cadet Men’s Individual), Kailey Johnston (Dublin, Ga./Compound Cadet Women’s Individual) and Kendal Nicely (Gorham, Maine/Compound Junior Women’s Individual). Samantha Pruitte (Harlem, Ga.) won the silver medal in the Compound Junior Women’s Individual competition.
The USA Archery Teams also did very well in the team competitions winning gold in the Compound Cadet Women’s Team, the Compound Cadet Men’s Team and the Compound Junior Women’s Team.
The Compound Cadet Women’s Team consisted of Kailey Johnston (Dublin, Ga.), Paige Pearce (Red Bluff, Calif.) and Tristan Skarvan (Elk Mound, Wis.). The Compound Cadet Men’s Team included Levi Cyr (Falmouth, Maine), Joey Hunt III (Minot, Maine) and Connor Kelly (Huntington Beach, Calif.). The Compound Junior Women’s Team was made up of Seneca Francis (Smithfield, Utah), Kendal Nicely (Gorham, Maine), and Samantha Pruitte (Harlem, Ga.).
The USA also won a silver medal with the Compound Junior Men’s Team. Team members included Ben Cleland (Swanton, Ohio), Adam Gallant (Poland, Maine) and Adam Wruck (Rice, Minn.).
The team boasted four multiple medalists with Hunt, Johnston and Nicely all winning two gold medals each individually and team. Pruitte won silver individually and gold in the team competition.
Some impressive statistics from the 2008 Youth World Archery Championships include the U.S. sweeping the gold medals for the Compound Cadet classes. In all USA archers took six of the eight compound gold medals. The U.S. Compound Junior Women’s Team took the team gold medal and two of the three individual medals (gold and silver).
For complete results from the 2008 Youth World Archery Championships please visit www.archeryworldcup.org.
The 2008 USA Youth World Championships Team:
Junior Recurve Boys
Tyler Schardt (McKinney, Texas)
Anthony Don (Tucson, Ariz.)
Glen Thomas (Mercer, Ariz.)
Junior Recurve Girls
Heather Koehl (Sheboygan Falls, Wis.)
Anna Harrington (Bernardsville, N.J.)
Jessica Gibbs (Burton, Mich.)
Junior Compound Boys – Silver Team
Adam Wruck (Rice, Minn.)
Adam Gallant (Poland, Maine)
Ben Cleland (Swanton, Ohio)
Junior Compound Girls – Gold Team
Samantha Pruitte (Harlem, Ga.) – Silver Individual
Kendal Nicely (Gorham, Maine) – Gold Individual
Seneca Francis (Smithfield, Utah)
Cadet Recurve Boys
Josh Smith (Riverside, Calif.)
Matthew Zumbo (Fountain Valley, Calif.)
Ben Roop (Monroe, Wash.)
Cadet Recurve Girls
Miranda Leek (Des Moines, Iowa)
Emily Blake (Colchester, Vt.)
Tabitha Kovac (Simi Valley, Calif.)
Cadet Compound Boys – Gold Team
Connor Kelly (Huntington Beach, Calif.)
Levi Cyr (Falmouth, Maine)
Joey Hunt III (Minot, Maine) – Gold Individual
Cadet Compound Girls – Gold Team
Kailey Johnston (Dublin, Ga.) – Gold Individual
Paige Pearce (Red Bluff, Calif.)
Tristan Skarvan (Elk Mound, Wis.)
Coaches:
Kisik Lee (Chula Vista, Calif.) – National Head Coach
Robert Romero (Rio Rancho, N.M.)
Linda Beck (Maple Lake, Minn.)
Team Leaders:
Kevin Eldredge (Hatch, Utah)
Sharon Lafayette (Dripping Springs, Texas)
For more information, please contact Cecil Bleiker, NGB Media Services Director for USA Archery at 719-866-4608. This press release is also available on the USOC’s media specific website at www.usocpressbox.org. |
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Author: |
Cecil Bleiker
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USA Archery
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719-866-4608
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