by Mary Beth Vorwerk
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 17, 2003
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – USA Archery has officially announced the teams that have been selected to attend the European Grand Prix in Turkey, World Target Championships, Olympic Test Event and the Pan American Games. The Summer World University Games Team will be confirmed at a later date.
All four teams were determined following the World/Pan Am Trials that were held at the Easton Sports Complex in Chula Vista, Calif. June 4-8.
The final leg of the 2003 European Grand Prix will be held in Antalya, Turkey June 17-21. Making the trip to Turkey for men’s recurve will be three-time Olympian (1996 gold medalist and 2000 bronze medalist) Butch Johnson (Woodstock, Conn.), 2000 Olympic silver and bronze medalist Vic Wunderle (Mason City, Ill.), 2003 Mexican Grand Prix champion and current Chula Vista resident athlete, Guy Krueger (Blessing, Texas) and 1984 Olympian Glenn Meyers (Grand Rapids, Mich.).
Representing the United States on the women’s team will be 2003 World Indoor silver medalist Jennifer Nichols (Cheyenne, Wyo.), 1999 Pan American Games gold medalist Kathie Loesch (Sugarland, Texas), 1996 and 2000 Olympian Janet Dykman (El Monte, Calif.) and 2003 National Indoor Champion Stephanie Miller (Naperville, Ill.).
Coaching the Turkey Grand Prix Team will be 2004 Olympic coaches Frank Thomas (College Station, Texas) and Sheri Rhodes (Sacramento, Calif.). Rhodes also coached the 1988 Olympic Team.
The men’s and women’s recurve teams selected to compete at the Turkey Grand Prix will also be the teams representing the United States at the World Target Championships in New York City July 14-20.
The U.S. will also send a men’s and women’s compound team to compete at the World Target Championships. Representing the U.S. for the men will be five-time world champion Dee Wilde (Pocatello, Idaho), 2003 World Indoor double gold medalist, Reo Wilde (Pocatello, Idaho), 25 time national champion Dave Cousins (Standish, Maine) and 2003 Indoor National champion Braden Gellenthien (Hudson, Mass.).
On the women’s side, 2001 World Indoor Champion Mary Zorn (Warrenville, Ill.), 2003 Arizona Cup, Texas Shootout and Gold Cup champion Aya LaBrie (Aurora, Colo.), 2003 Arizona Cup bronze medalist Amber Dawson (Robesonia, Pa.) and 2003 National Indoor Champion Christie Bisco (Villas, N.J.) will compete for the U.S. at the World Championships.
Bob Romero (Las Cruces, N.M.) will serve as head coach for the men’s and women’s compound teams and Wendy Erlandson (Sacramento, Calif.) will serve as Team Leader.
Attending the Olympic Test Event in Athens, Greece August 8-15 for the men’s team will be Johnson, 1999 Pan American double gold medalist Jason McKittrick (Moores Hill, Ind.) and 2003 Gold Cup silver medalist and current Chula Vista resident athlete Chris Shull (Columbus, Ohio).
For the women, 2000 Olympian and Chula Vista resident athlete Karen Scavotto (Enfield, Conn.), Loesch and 2002 U.S. Open gold medalist Roxanne Reimann (Manchester, Conn.) will compete in Athens. Thomas and Rhodes will also serve as coaches for the Olympic Test Event Team and Tom Green (Sacramento, Calif.) will be the Team Leader.
The Pan American Games will be held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic this summer with archery competition taking place August 12-16. Wunderle, Krueger and Meyers will compete for the men and Nichols, Miller and Dykman will compete for the women. Tom Parrish (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and Cindy Bevilacqua (West Chester, Pa.) will coach the Pan Am Team and 1996 and 2000 Olympic Coach Lloyd Brown (San Diego, Calif.) will take on Team Leader duties.
For complete results of the 2003
World/Pan Am Trials and for more information on these upcoming tournaments,
please visit www.usarchery.org