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April 5-8, 2006
Arizona Cup International
Ben Avery FITA Range, Phoenix, AZ
Kari Granville, Sun Devil Archery Team leader and coach,
re-established the ASU tradition of hosting the Arizona Cup
International Archery Championship by taking on the role of Tournament
Director, www.sundevilarchery.com. Appropriately, collegiate archers played a prominate role in this year's tournament.
The Men's Compound division was dominated by collegiate archers with
Jedd Greshock of James Madison University taking home the gold, Logan
Wilde (Idaho State University) taking the bronze, and Braden
Gellenthien (James Madison University) taking fourth place.
Other individual medalists
included Ashley Kamuf of Indiana University who took home silver in the
Women's Recurve division, Nate McCullough of the University of
Colorado, Colorado Springs, took the bronze in Men's Recurve, and Anna
Stratton of Texas A&M University took fourth in Women's Compound.
In the open team division, college archer Jeff Anderson of the
University of Washington, along with teammates Pete Carney and Ed
Eliason won the open team round title in Men’s Recurve. In the Men’s
Compound team round, collegiate archer Josh Binger of Texas A&M
University, John Fleury, and Mel Nichols placed second, and team JMU of
Greshock, Gellenthien, and Steven Schwade placed third. Women’s recurve
first place team was led by Arizona State University archer Lindsey
Pian who teamed with Junior recurve archers Maggie Huff and Stephanie
Girard (Can). To round out the collegiate team medalists, the JMU
Compound Women’s team of Brittany Lorenti, Joayn Fleury, and Jessica
Fasula took first prize in the open competition.
All in all, archers from fifteen colleges took part
in the 2006 Arizona Cup. 40 collegiate archers including
large teams from James Madison University and Columbia
University competed. All collegiates competed in both the college
and senior divisions. All results including the collegiate 2X72 round
are posted at www.arizonacup.com.
Other news reporting on the 2006 Arizona Cup:
JMU ' s Jedd Greshock, won the whole thing in the men’s compound division.
Columbia Lions Womens Recurve Team goes head to head with JMU.
Submitted by Bob Pian and Lorretta Sinclair
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