Official Practice

Posted by: lorrettasinclair on: July 8, 2009

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Last night we all went to a great Serbian restaurant called ‘Que Pasa’ and then walked down a few of the streets to one of the city squares to look at the local architecture. The streets of Belgrade are alive late into the night. The food and atmosphere were wonderful. The team all had a great time.

This morning the weather cooled with a nice overcast day and the USA team had a great official practice day. The venue is beautiful with flags of the competing countries displayed along one side of the field. The field was a bit soggy from an overnight rain, which could be interesting as rain is forecast again for the morning qualification round.

Jenny, Amanda, Erin, Steve Gatto, Steve Schwade, and Zach Plannick took off for table tennis matches this afternoon and all of the archery team members will join the other USA WUG athletes and staff for the USA vs Serbia basketball game tonight. It’s great that the team is experiencing more than archery; they’re all getting a real feel for the World University Games.

The quote for the day came during the compound women and recurve men equipment/uniform inspection in the afternoon when one of the FITA judges told our women, ‘I hope you ladies shoot as good as you look.’ Decked out in the specially designed shirts for the WUG team, Erika, Brittany and Elissa are great ambassadors for our sport. Our guys look great too…. It’s just that nobody told them so.

Several press members were on the field this afternoon and the video team spent a lot of time filming the recurve men and compound women as they prepared for team round by competing against each other. The video will be used for background on the FISU website.

In an unusual schedule change, the recurve women and compound men will shoot the qualifying round in the morning and the recurve men and compound women begin in the afternoon after lunch. The ¼ and ½ matches for mixed team will be shot following the qualification round.