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  Week in Summer #7 - United States  

April 29th - May 28th

 

 

Archery

2018 Archery World Cup - Stage 2 (Antalya)

Men's Recurve

Qualification Round

Brady, Jack, and Matthew Requa all improved their qualification scores from Shanghai! This was 19 year old Matthew Nofel first ever Archery World Cup and placing 79th in qualification is great!

 

Bracket Round - Brady Ellison

Brady Ellison was able to get a first round & second round bye as he ranked 4th after the qualification round. In the third round he was up against Sanzhar Mussayev (29) and ended up loosing 6-5. This was a pretty big upset as Brady should be making it to the semi-finals or finals in the World Cup. 

 

Bracket Round - Jack Williams

Jack Williams was up against Polish Archer Slawomir Naploszek (75) and ended up winning that match. Next Jack played against Xu Tianyu (27) and won the second round match up aswell! In the third round Crispin Duenas (6) was up against Jack and ended up beating Jack 7-3. Making it to the 3rd round is an improvement for Jack as he went out of Shanghai in the second round. 

 

 

Bracket Round - Matthew Requa

Matthew started first round against Ben Adriaensen (55) and upset him in the first round. In the second round Matthew was up against Furukawa Takharu (10) from Japan and ended up loosing 3-7. 

 

 

Bracket Round - Matthew Nofel

Matthew Nofel lost first round against Wei Shaoxuan (34) of China. 

 

Men's Recurve Team

We ended up ranked 8th after the qualification round like in Shanghai, which let us get a 1st round bye in the bracket stage. After our Bye round we got matched up against Chinese Taipei (9) losing to them 6-2. Sadly we exited the tournament in the second round which is worse than Shanghai in which there we made it to the Quarterfinal. 

 

Women's Recurve

Qualification Round

Both Khatuna Lorig and Mackenzie Brown both had worse qualification scores than Shanghai. We had two new archers Amy Jung and Danielle Park join us in the World Cup!

 

Bracket Round - Mackenzie Brown

Mackenzie Brown had a very bad first round getting upset by Olivia Hodgson (80) from New Zealand.

 

Bracket Round - Khatuna Lorig

Khatuna Lorig again got upset first round by Natalia Lesniak (81) from Poland.

 

 

Bracket Round - Danielle Park

Danielle Park sadly didn't bean Alicia Marin (25) from Spain.

 

Bracket Round - Amy Jung

Lastly, Amy Jung lost 1-7 to Viktoria Budaeva (28) from Russia.

 

 

 

Women's Recurve Team

After the qualification Round we beat Team Ukraine (17) 5-4, and advanced to the 2nd round where we played Korea (1) and lost to them 0-6. 

 

 

 

Mixed Recurve Team

Our Mixed Recurve Team performed worse than we did in Shanghai. After qualification round we ranked 9th (better than Shanghai 11th). First round was against IR Iran (24) and we beat them 5-1. Second round we faced against Germany (8th) and lost 5-3. 

 

Archery Overview: Very disappointing results from everyone in Stage 2 of the Archery World Cup. Hopefully we can pull it together for Stage 3! 

 

 

Badminton

Barfoot & Thompson New Zealand Open 2018

 

Women's Singles

Crystal Pan competed in this tournament but sadly lost in the first round. 

 

Some good news came as Beiwen Zhang has qualified in Phase 2 for the TOTAL BWF World Championships for Team USA!

 

Basketball 3x3

 

Women's

This is the our group for the 2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup which starts on June 8th! 

 

 

Water Polo

We were able to come up on top of our group which means we are headed to the Super Final which starts mid June!

 

 

NOTE: Sorry I was absent for a whole entire month, I was gone for 2 weekends in Eastern Washington so I had no access to PC while I was there. Only 3 weeks till summer then the posts should be at regular times every Sunday. 

Edited June 3, 2018 by Rdbc

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  Week in Summer #8 - United States  

May 28th - June 3rd

 

 

Archery

No Archery news this week! The 2018 Archery World Cup - Stage 3 (Salt Lake City) starts on June 18th!

These are the world rankings for our top 6 archers!

Brady Ellison - 2nd

Jake Kaminski - 39th

Zach Garret - 55th

Mackenzie Brown - 10th

Khatuna Lorig - 58th

La Nola Shepherd - 147th

 

Badminton

No Badminton competition this week but we are getting ready for the 2018 Yonex US Open which is June 12th - 17th which will feature many American archers! 

 

 

Basketball 

We have a 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup Qualification (Americas) game this month against Mexico on June 28th!

 

 

Cycling

Road - UCI World Tour 

No events took place this week but we have the Criterium du Dauphine on June 3rd - 10th!

 

Mountain Bike - UCI World Cup

No news or events took place this week either but next week is the Val di Sole!

 

 

 

Synchronized Swimming

This week was the 2018 FINA Artistic Swimming World Series - #7 in Surrey BC! 

 

In the Duet Free we placed 8th place which is expected because our duet team is not the strongest!

 

 

 

 

 

NOTE: Pretty quiet week for Team USA! But As the summer comes around more and more sports will be starting their leagues and such! Still trying to update my worksheet for everysport!

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  Week in Summer #9 - United States  

June 3rd - June 24th

 

NOTE: FINALLY in summertime now for this year so I have more time to work on this and my spreadsheet which I'm completely redesigning to make it easier for me to understand. Both Cycling and Badminton are a bit hard because there are so many small competitions and competitors that I'm probably just gonna end up sticking with the best in each category. 

Archery

2018 Archery World Cup - Stage 3 (Salt Lake City)

Men's Recurve

Qualification Round

A pretty amazing qualification round for the USA men, as expected Brady Ellison got into the top 3. Jack Williams had an amazing improvement since Stage 2 (Antalya) where he go ranked 38. Mathew Requa also had a good qualification after ranking 58 in Antalya aswell. 

 

Brady Ellison

Brady Ellison got a first and second round bye as he ranked 3rd after qualification. He then was matched against Wei Shaoxuan (35) from China and beat him 6-4. In the 4th round Brady lost to Steve Wijler (19) of the Netherlands. Again Brady has not been able to make it to the finals in a while. 

 

Jack Williams

After ranking 9th after qualification Jack was able to get a first round bye! In the second round he was matched up against Andres Aguilar (57) and beat him 6-0. Third round Jack faced off against Crispin Duenas (24) and also beat him 6-0. In the fourth round Jack upset Li Jialun (8) from China winning 7-3. In the Quarterfinals Jack lost against Ryan Tyack (16) 1-7. Overall a great result from Jack Williams bumping up his world ranking!

 

Matthew Requa

After a first round bye Matthew beat Lucas Daniel (42) from France 7-3 and moved onto the third round where he beat Rick Van Den Oever (55) 6-0. In the fourth round Matthew lost against Thomas Chirault (7) 3-7.

 

Thomas Stanwood

Thomas got a first round bye but ended up loosing to Jeff Henckels (33) 3-7 in the second round. 

 

 

Women's Recurve

Qualification Round

GREAT qualification for the women! All the women seem to be back on form after a bad performance in Antalya. 

Mackenzie Brown

Mackenzie Brown got a first round bye and in the second round beat Mariana Avita (28) from Mexico 6-0. Sadly Mackenzie lost 5-6 in the third round against Ana Maria Rendon (21).

 

Khatuna Lorig

Again Khatuna Lorig found it difficult to make it far in the bracket stage after loosing second round to Hayakawa Ren (20) of Japan 4-6.

 

Erin Mickelberry & La Nola Shepherd

Well would you look at that! Erin and La Nola got placed against eachother in the first round! Erin Mickelberry ended up winning but only to fall to Deepika Kumari (4) of India 2-6.

 

 

Men's Recurve Team

A 2nd place after qualification for the Men's Recurve Team is pretty great!

 

Well the hype didn't last very long... after a first round win against Saudi Arabia (15) 6-2. We fell to Italy (7) 4-5. 

 

 

Women's Recurve Team

A 5th place ranking after qualification is not the worst!

 

We got a nice first round bye and quarter finals ended up beating China (4) 5-3! We moved onto the semi finals and lost to Chinese Taipei (1) 2-6.

Mixed Recurve Team

A nice 2nd place after qualification is very good!

 

TBDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

 

Badminton

2018 YONEX US Open

Men's Singles - Q

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Howard Shu was able to get past the Qualification round by beating 2 opponents!

 

Men's Singles

Sadly he lost to Ygor Coelho from Brazil in the first round.

 

 

Women's Singles

Beiwen Zhang (1) was able to make it all the way to the finals of the tournament but ended up loosing to Ui Xuerui of China in the finals. 

 

Men's Doubles

Our best Men's Doubles team of Phillip and Ryan Chew ended up loosing to Vinson and Bo who lost to Marcus and Chris. 

 

 

 

 

Basketball 

Men's

We have a 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup Qualification (Americas) game next week against Mexico on June 28th!

 

 

Basketball 3x3

Women's

2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup

 

Group Stage

We ended up 1st in our group which was a HUGE accomplishment as Russia was expected to be first but we ended up beating them 21-13! 

Knockout Stage

Sadly we ended up going out in the Quarter Finals against Italy (8) loosing a close game 14-17. After not competing last year this was a good result coming back.

 

 

Cycling

Road - UCI World Tour

Tejay Van Garderen - Tour de Suisse | 37th place (10 points), 

 

 

 

TL;DR

Archery:

Men's Singles: All the men did pretty well but Brady still hasn't been able to make it to finals

Women's Singles: Great qualification but still can't find our footing in knockout stage

Men's Team: Got upset second round after amazing qualification

Women's Team: Surprisingly made it to semi finals

Mixed Team: TBD

 

Badminton:

Beiwen Zhang is our only good player

 

Basketball 3x3:

Women's team made it to quarterfinals loosing to Italy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 25, 2018 by Rdbc
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[Olympian1010 7,978]

Thanks for the update, I’d like to add that our Sport Climbers did very well at the World Cup in Vail. I don’t remember the results off the top of my head, but I believe both a US man and woman got a podium. The US shooters have also had a good World Cup season, with a few wins in shotgun events. The US woman preformed well in the French Open, with both Sloane Stephens and Madison Keys making the quarterfinals. Stephens went on to take 2nd. The US also had a few paddlers reach the semi-finals at this weeks ICF Slalom World Cup 1. The US did not do great at the Pan American Handball Championships. 

[intoronto 5,645]

1 hour ago, Olympian1010 said:

The US did not do great at the Pan American Handball Championships. 

They didn't even qualify 

[Olympian1010 7,978]

1 hour ago, intoronto said:

They didn't even qualify 

It’s hard to do good if you’re not even there 

[Rdbc 48]

 Road to Tokyo 2020 United States 

June 28th, 2018  

 

 

 

Basketball (Men) -  2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup Qualification (Americas)

 USA 70 - 78 Mexico 

Mexico City (MEX) - Group C

For more information on this game and how it ties to qualification look below. 

 

 

 

How does this help us qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics?

In order to qualify we must be one of the top 2 Americas teams at the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup

2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup

In order to qualify we must be one of the top 7 teams at 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup Qualification (Americas)

 

2019 FIBA World Cup Qualification (Americas)

 USA 70 - 78 Mexico 

When you end the 1st quarter 10 - 31 you should be pretty worried. Our previous match against Mexico we beat them 91 - 55 so I'm shocked that we lost to them. Mexican player Francisco Cruz had an amazing game scoring 24 points! Meanwhile our best scorer was Marcus Thornton with only 14 points... Sad part is in an interview with our head coach Jeff Van Gundy he said "If we think we can go to Cuba or Mexico and do the same thing, fall behind early and hope for a late rally, we're making a huge mistake" well thats exactly what the team did. Thankfully we were already qualified for the Second Round.

 

Group Results:

 

Pictures:

Edited June 29, 2018 by Rdbc
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[Olympian1010 7,978]

Good Results for Casey (Eichfield) this weekend in Canoe Slalom. He managed to qualify for the final and finish 7th 2 seconds behind the winner. Great season opener 

[Rdbc 48]

 Road to Tokyo 2020 United States 

July 1st, 2018  

 

 

 

Basketball (Men) -  2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup Qualification (Americas)

 USA 93 - 62 Cuba 

La Habana (CUB) - Group C

For more information on this game and how it ties to qualification look below. 

 

 

 

How does this help us qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics?

In order to qualify we must be one of the top 2 Americas teams at the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup

2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup

In order to qualify we must be one of the top 7 teams at 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup Qualification (Americas)

 

2019 FIBA World Cup Qualification (Americas)

 USA 93 - 62 Cuba 

Thank goodness we won this game and didn't get beat like we did against Mexico on Thursday. At the end of the first quarter we were down 28-24, but in the second and third quarter we score a bunch of points 26-9 in the second and 24-9 in the third. We had quite an even spread of points between our players with two players getting 16 points and six players getting ≥10 points. This win and game finalizes our group C games and now we head to the second round.

 

Group C Final Results:

 

Who will join us in the Second Round (Group E)?

 

Pictures:

Edited July 2, 2018 by Rdbc

[Rdbc 48]

  Week in Summer #10 - United States  

June 4th - July 1st

 

NOTE: Happy I got this post out along with the Road to Tokyo ones this week, go check those out if you haven't yet. Still been working away on my spreadsheet, I've been reformating it to make more sense but it's a lot of work but fun! 

 

Archery

No Archery news last week, the 4th stage of the Archery World Cup is coming up in July and in August is the Pan American Championship!

 

 

Badminton

Mongolia International Series 2018

Men's Singles 

This is the first time Christopher Kan is competing at an event in Singles, or at least thats what the BWF website says. Sadly he lost first round but still good to get some experience!

 

Women's Singles

Iris Wang was able to win the first round against Kherlen Darkhanbaatar (what a last name) and advanced to the second round where she beat I Kuan Ao. Sadly Iris lost to Chaasinee Korepap in the Quarter finals. But hopefully this will improve her world ranking above 585 where she is at right now.

 

Peru International 2018

Men's Singles

Enrico Asuncion

Enrico Asuncion lost to Kevin Cordon in the first round. In Men's Singles Enrico is currently ranked 1,309th at age 19. 

 

Timothy Lam

Timothy Lam was able to beat Enzo Sugiura from Brazil in the first round but lost to Osleni Guerrero of Cuba in the second round. Timothy is currently ranked 363rd in the World Rankings at age 20 moving up from 419th after this tournament.

 

Women's Singles

Isabelle Rusli

Sadly Isabelle lost first round against Mariana Isabel Paiz Quan. Isabelle is currently ranked 246th in the World for Women's Singles!

 

Disha Gupta

Disha got a first round bye and ended up beating Mariana Ugalde from Mexico in the second round. In the quarter finals she faced off against Femanda Saponara Rivva and beat her aswell. Although in the semi finals she lost to Taymara. Disha Gupta is currently ranked 113th in the World Rankings for Women's Singles!

 

Crystal Pan

Crystal Pan (a name I actually recognize) played in this tournament and got a first round bye! In the second round she beat Nikte which allowed her to advance to the quarter finals where she beat Maria Delia Zambrano. In the semi finals she beat Fabiana Silva from Brazil and in the finals she won against Taymara who beat Disha Gupta another USA competitor. Crystal Pan is currently ranked 119th in Women's Singles World Ranking. 

 

Women's Singles Podium

 

 

Basketball 

Men's

Road to Tokyo Post

 

 

Canoeing

 

2018 ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup - Stage 2

Krakow, Poland

 

Men's

 

K1 - Heats

 

Tyler was not able to make it out of the Heat Stage

 

C1 - Final

Casey was able to make it to the finals and place in 7th place!

 

Women's

 

K1 - Heats

Both Sage and Ashley did not advance to the Semi Finals.

 

C1 - Heats 

We had Harriet and Sage compete in the C1 but sadly they did not advance to the Semi Finals. 

 

 

 

Cycling

No cycling last week

 

 

Volleyball

 

2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League

 

Women's

 

Final Round Group Stage

We were surprisingly ranked 1st in our group beating Turkey 3-2 and Serbia 3-0! This means we would go against the 2nd ranked team in Pool A.

 

Final Round Final Four

In the Semifinals we beat China 3-1 and in the final beat Turkey 3-2! Which means we are the first time winner of the FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League inaugural season which is amazing!

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 2, 2018 by Rdbc