Chile took the gold medal in the men’s competition which held the audience in suspense until the last second and it is with some surprise that Felipe Miranda took the gold medal in a competition where he was not a favorite and which is not his favorite event either. The silver went to American Adam Pickos and Adam Sedlmajer from the Czech Republic ended third.

The women’s tricks competition was the subject of a mini drama as sport can sometimes provide. Indeed, the French super favorite Iris Cambray fell twice before the end of the first figure in the two passages giving way to Alexandra Laurentano (USA) for the gold ahead of Belgian Kate Adriaensen. Petra Povolna (Czech Republic) took the bronze medal.

The men’s tricks competition saw the same three athletes back on the podium, be it in a different order. Chilean athlete Felipe Miranda had to settle for second place this time and leave the gold for Adam Pikos. Adam Sedlmajer (CZE) won for the second time that day the bronze medal.Adam Pickos took the silver in slalom and the gold in trick. He tied for first in the final round of slalom, but lost to Felipe Miranda of chile in the runoff for the gold medal. Adam won the gold medal in men’s trick.

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SANTIAGO

At 9 am all the delegations started their training, followed by the women’s qualifications for the finals.  What live HERE

When the sun was setting, the opening ceremony was tinged with the colors of the flags of each of the participating delegations. The president of the Chilean Federation of Water Ski, Mr. Waldo Miranda welcomed the athletes and technical teams. FISU EC member Rosa Mendez thanked the organizing committee and urged all athletes to meet and share.

Later the judges and the Athletes proceeded to make the oath according to the sporting spirit.

Finally the Chilean Federation of Water Ski offered a cultural presentation which was represented by college students. This cultural activity showed facets of the life of the Chilean people.

5 of the 6 US skiers qualified for the slalom finals, and all 6 put up very good scores for the US. Brian Detrick, Adam Pickos, Dylan Schaffer, Alex Lauretano, and Lauren Morgan will compete in the slalom finals on Saturday.

Officials and competitors will be housed at the 4-Star Hotel NH Ciudad de Santiago which is located 30 minutes from the competition site.

Seventeen countries have entered the competition, i.e. Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, Chile, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Peru, Slovakia and the United States of America. You can watch LIVE right here.

The numbers of participants and sports competitions in World University Championships are growing rapidly. For instance, in 2004 FISU organised 25 World University Championships that attracted 4,845 participants. In 2006, FISU staged 27 WUCs attracting 5,852 participants and in 2008, 29 Championships were organized, bringing together 6,652 participants. For 2012, 29 WUC’s are planned out of a total of 32 sports programs offered.

Beginning in 2012, BTI Events will officially coordinate the participation of U.S. athletes in the World University Championships, in partnership with the US-IUSF (U.S. International University Sports Federation).

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*****WUG USA FINAL RESULTS*****

USA MEDAL COUNT: Gold-17  Silver-22  Bronze-11  TOTAL:50

Swimming: The United States’ 27 total medals were the most among all nations in the swimming portion of the World University Games.  The U.S. also won competition-high 12 Gold, 12 Silver, and 4 Bronze.
GOLD MEDAL- Jennifer Connolly: 50m Backstroke (GAMES RECORD)
GOLD MEDAL- Karlee Bispo, Chelsea Nauta, Kate Dwelley, and Megan Romano 4x200m Free Relay  (WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES RECORD)
GOLD MEDAL- Michael Klueh, Dax Hill, Matt Bartlett and Matt McLean: 4×200 Free
GOLD MEDAL- Haley Anderson: 1500m Free
GOLD MEDAL- Maya DiRado: 400m Individual Medley
GOLD MEDAL- Matt McLean: 200m Free
GOLD MEDAL-Tim Phillips: 100m Fly
GOLD MEDAL- Annie Chandler: 50m Breast
GOLD MEDAL- Jimmy Feigen: 100m Free
GOLD MEDAL- Michael Klueh: 800m Free
GOLD MEDAL- Jimmy Feigen, Tim Phillips, Kohlton Norys,  and Bobby Savulich: 4x100m Free relay
GOLD MEDAL- Tim Phillips: 50m fly
SILVER MEDAL- Jennifer Connolly, Annie Chandler, Lyndsay DePaul, and Megan Romano: 4x100m Medley Relay
SILVER MEDAL- Andrea Kropp: 200m Breast
SILVER MEDAL- Adam Small: 50m Free
SILVER MEDAL- Rex Tullius, Adam Klein, Tim Phillips, and Jimmy Feigen: 4×100 Medley Relay
SILVER MEDAL- Jenny Connolly: 100m Backstroke
SILVER MEDAL- Michael Klueh: 400m Free
SILVER MEDAL-Tom Shields 100m Fly
SILVER MEDAL- Haley Anderson: 800m Free
SILVER MEDAL- Bobby Bollier: 200m Fly
SILVER MEDAL- Rex Tullius: 200m Backstroke
SILVER MEDAL- Shannon Vreeland Felicia Lee, Kate Dwelley, Megan Romano: 4x100m Free relay
BRONZE MEDAL- Tyler Harris: 400m Individual Medley
BRONZE MEDAL- Karlee Bispo: 200m Free
BRONZE MEDAL-Megan Romano: 100m Free
BRONZE MEDAL- Stephanie Peacock: 400m Free

Track & Field (Athletics)= 9 Medals
GOLD MEDAL-Brigetta Barrett: Women’s High Jump
GOLD MEDAL- Jeshua Anderson Men’s 400m Hurdles
GOLD MEDAL‐ Sifaatihii ALI Nia Women’s 100m Hurdles
SILVER MEDAL‐ Tiffany Townsend Women’s 200m
SILVER MEDAL- Marquise Goodwin: Men’s Long Jump
SILVER MEDAL- Lakya Brookins, Shayla Mahan, Christina Manning, Tiffany Townsend: 4X100 Relay
BRONZE MEDAL-Ronald Brookins: 110m High Hurdles
BRONZE MEDAL-Mason Finely Men Shot Put
BRONZE MEDAL- Christina Manning Women 100m Hurdles

Women’s Basketball
GOLD MEDALISTS- Defeated Chinese Taipei 101-66 in Gold Medal Game
Finished 6-0 in the Games

Men’s Basketball
7-1 record and finished 5th in the Games.  Only loss was to Lithuania by 2 points in quarterfinals.

Water Polo
SILVER MEDALISTS- Women’s Team.  Only loss was to China in Gold Medal Game.
Men’s Team placed 4th with only 3 losses in the Games.

Beach Volleyball
SILVER MEDALISTS- Emily Day and Heather Hughes: Women’s Team Tournament.

Golf
BRONZE MEDALISTS- Catherine O’Donnell, Brooke Beeler, Caroline Powers- Women’s Team Tournament.

Sailing=2 Medals
GOLD MEDALISTS- Team Laser Radial: Colin Smith, Frederick Strammer, and Elizabeth Barry
SILVER MEDALISTS- Team 470:  Perry Emsiek, Scott Furnary, Zeke Horowitz, and Alyssa Aitken

Fencing
SILVER MEDALISTS- Women’s epee Team: Susannah Scanlon, Courtney Hurley, Kelly Hurley, and Holly Buechel.

Diving= 3 Medals
SILVER MEDAL- Kelci Bryant: 1M Springboard
SILVER MEDAL- Women’s Team
BRONZE MEDALISTS- Bianca Alvarez and Carrie Dragland: 3m Synchro Springboard

Archery= 3 Medals
SILVER MEDALISTS- Mixed Team Compound: Zachary Plannick, and Kendal Nicely
SILVER MEDAL- Kendal Nicely: Women’s Compound Individual
BRONZE MEDALISTS- Compound Men’s Team: Adam Wruck, Adam Gallant, and Zachary Plannick

Taekwondo
BRONZE MEDAL-Aziza Chambers- Taekwondo Bantam Weight

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In all, four players scored in double digits, including Skylar Diggins (Notre Dame/South Bend, Ind.), who netted 19 points and dished out six of the USA’s WUG record-tying 27 assists; and Chiney Ogwumike (Stanford/Cypress, Texas) with 10 points and six rebounds. The original record for U.S. assists at this event was set against South Africa by the 2005 USA squad.

In the bronze medal game, Australia (5-1) broke a tie late in the game to pull away and defeat Sweden (3-3) 66-56 earlier in the evening.

USA Basketball has claimed gold at the last four WUGs in which it has entered a team (2001, 2005, 2009 and 2011). Further, the U.S., which has competed in a total of 16 World University Games, now owns a record eight golds, six silvers and one bronze medal and boasts a 95-15 all-time win-loss record in WUG play. Taiwan’s silver marks its first women’s basketball medal ever at the World University Games, while Australia previously claimed gold once and bronze twice.

“We wanted to go to Nneka (Ogwumike) early and often, and we did,” said Bill Fennelly, USA World University Games Team and Iowa State University head coach. “I think (tonight’s game) was even better than the game she played two years ago (in the U19 World Championship gold medal game). I think that says a lot about her, not just her talent, but her commitment and focus. You want your best players to step up at the biggest times, and a gold medal game is a good time to step up and do the things you can do.

“To our kids’ credit, we added an offense on our off day because we knew we had a size advantage,” he added. “We just wanted to pound it at them and we did. The kids were unselfish. We kept throwing it on the block and got a lot of easy baskets.”

The USA’s game plan of going inside early and often, making the most of its height advantage (Taiwan’s average height is 5’9” and the USA’s is 6”1”), paid off in spades as it outscored Taiwan 62-22 in the paint on the night and got all but its final field goal of the first quarter from inside.

After a pair of lead changes and two knotted scores early, with 5:53 to play in the first quarter the score was tied at 14-all. Devereaux Peters (Notre Dame/Chicago, Ill.) took a feed inside from Delle Donne that put the USA on top for good, 16-14, at 4:49. The Peters bucket was the start of a mini 7-3 run by the U.S. that ended with a Nneka Ogwumike three-point play, and with 1:52 to play in the period the American women were on top 23-17. Holding a five-point, 26-21, lead near the end of the quarter, the USA closed out the stanza up 29-21after a Jacki Gemelos (USC/Stockton, Calif.) sank a 3-pointer.

“Our game plan was definitely to pound the ball inside,” said Nneka Ogwumike, who had 13 points in the first quarter. “We played Australia, which was whole different extreme. Their shortest post player was 6-3. And then today, we played Taiwan and their tallest person was 6-1. We just kind of took advantage of what they had and what we had, and we executed as best we could.”

Taiwan quickly cut the gap back to six points, 25-31, but the U.S. strung together a 9-0 run and began to pull away, 40-25, with 7:05 left in the half. Taiwan began to counter each America bucket and cut the gap back down to 11 points, 46-35, at the 3:38 mark. However, a three from Diggins sparked another streak of nine unanswered points that stretched the advantage to 20 points, 55-35. Taiwan got the first half’s final points, one of its eight 3-pointers on the night, and the first half ended with the American women holding a commanding 55-38 upper hand.

“They were a phenomenal team, and they definitely gave us a lot of challenges because the way they play is completely different than anything we’ve ever seen,” said Delle Donne. “They move the ball around really fast, and they just were a very fast team. So, we had to get used to the pace of the game, and I feel like after the first half, we got it under our belts and were ready to go and came out really strong.”

Taiwan managed to cut it again to 15 points early in the second half, 57-42, but that was as close as it would get for the remainder of the contest. The USA’s depth and size were just too much for the Asian side as it put together a 12-0 string to put the game well out of reach, 69-42, with 5:06 left in the quarter. By the end of the third period, the stars and stripes owned a 75-54 lead.

Taiwan nailed a three to start the fourth period, but Diggins answered with back-to-back 3-pointers. Taiwan came back with another trey when Delle Donne hit the second of her threes on the night, spurring another a 12-0 run in which six different players scored, and suddenly it was a 33-point game, 93-60, with 4:08 still to play.

While the Taiwanese continued to play hard through the remainder of the game, they were just no match for the depth and strength of the gold medal winners.

“This has been a journey of a lifetime, and as coach said to us, ‘this hasn’t been just a three-month experience, it started from when we were young little girls growing up, dreaming of a moment like this.’ So, it’s incredible,” said Delle Donne, who averaged USA team highs of 15.7 ppg. and 8.5 rpg. throughout the tournament. “Words cannot even describe how incredible that felt. It felt really heavy for one, it’s an incredible medal. But it was such a special moment and to be standing next to my teammates. We worked so hard these past three weeks. I really can’t even describe it.”

Taiwan’s Yuchun Chen shot 3-of-6 from 3-point land and finished with a team-best 21 points, while Pinjen Huang was her team’s only other double-digit scorer with 11 points.

The USA, which owned a whopping 52-18 rebounding advantage, saved its best shooting for the final game as it shot a deadly 58.3 percent (42-72 FGs) from the field and an even 50.0 percent (7-14 3pt FGs) from 3-point, while its defense held Taiwan to 41.4 percent (29-70 FGs) shooting from the floor and 29.6 percent (8-27 3pt FGs) from beyond the arc.

This marks the third straight gold as a team for Fennelly, Diggins and Nneka Ogwumike, who were all also members of the 2008 USA U18 National Team and 2009 USA U19 World Championship Team.

“It’s just amazing,” reflected Fennelly. “Nneka and Sky have been through a lot. This is the third time I’ve had them, twice as an assistant and now as a head coach. They are great players, but they are even better people. I think they were the true leaders of our team. Everyone knew it from the beginning. They followed what we asked them to do, and their experience really paid off and showed the other kids what the international game is all about – the travel and how you just have to fight through it day-by-day. At the end of the day, they have another gold medal and they deserve it.”

Assisting Fennelly on the USA sideline were Suzie McConnell-Serio of Duquesne University and Terri Williams-Flournoy of Georgetown University.

The World University Games are a multi-sport competition organized every other year by the International University Sports Federation (FISU). The USA women’s basketball team is comprised of U.S. citizens who are currently enrolled in college and have remaining eligibility.

USA Basketball women’s teams have participated in 16 World University Games and collected a record eight gold medals, six silvers and one bronze medal. Since 1973, the first year the USA women competed in the WUGs, the United States has compiled an 95-15 overall record. In 2009, led by 2010 FIBA World Champion Tina Charles, the USA posted a 7-0 slate en route to the gold medal.

The United States continues to build to their medal haul as they reach 42 medals total for the 2011 World University Games.  USA is poised to reach it’s highest medal count since 2001 of 46 making Shenzhen 2011 the most successful games of this decade. 

USA MEDAL COUNT:  Gold-15  Silver-18  Bronze-9  TOTAL:42

Track & Field

BRONZE MEDAL- Ronald Brookins:  110m High Hurdles

Men’s Basketball

Lost to Lithuania 76-74 in quarter finals.

Women’s Basketball

Play TPE for GOLD MEDAL at 930pm.

Taekwondo

Shaina Krause (George Mason, 57 kg) had the best result of the day,

reaching the quarterfinals and narrowly missing the medal rounds.

In the quarterfinal round Krause met a Russian player.  In a tightly contested defensive match, neither player scored until late in the match when the Russian player scored a short round kick to the body. Krause mixed it up but ran out of time.

The final score was 1-3 for the Russian player.

Jensen Ishida (University of Hawaii-Manoa, 68 kg) fought Cesar Mari Puerta of Spain.  He scored a defensive back kick to go up 2-1 in the first round but gave up a

couple of head shots to go down 7-2. Ishida sparred aggressively for

the rest of the match but couldn’t close the gap.

Adrian Zambrano (Glendale Community College, 54 kg) fought Weiji Tian

of China in his first match.  He was leading 1-0 for much of the

match, but Tian was able to pull head 2-1 in the third and final round

and hold the lead.

Katherine Trinh (University of California, Berkeley, 46 kg) fought

Anastasia Valueva of Russia but fell 6-16 to the Russian.

Sailing

SILVER MEDAL- Team 470

Perry Emsiek, Scott Furnay, Zeke Horowitz, Alyssa Aitken

GOLD MEDAL- Team Laser Radial

Colin Smith, Fredrick Stammer, Elizabeth Barry

Golf

Team USA. +5. 3rd place Women’s BRONZE MEDAL

Caroline powers 69

Brooke Beeler 72

Catherine odonnell 73

Emily talley 70

Tessa Teachman 77

Men’s finished 7 th

Vince India 70-70-71-71.

Shotgun

Men’s Trap: USA placed 5^th in 3 man team.

Chad Hafer (Lindenwood University)  115 out of 125 targets

Casey Wallace (Lindenwood University)  115 out of 125

Roger Bollman  (Lindenwood University)    113 out of 125

Hit 343 out of 375 targets

Water Polo

USA  Women beats ITA 9-8 in Semifinal round. Will play the winner of China in Gold Medal Game.

3 goals by Leah Robertson

1 goal for Pallavi Menon, Alyssa Lo, Julie Oreglia, Stephanie Schnugg, Caroline Clark, Kimberly Bendetti (penalty shot)

Amber Oland 11 saves

Following a day off, the U.S. will play for the gold medal against also unbeaten Taiwan (5-0) on Aug. 21 at 9:30 p.m. (9:30 a.m. EDT). Taiwan edged out Sweden (3-2) 71-70 in overtime to advance to the gold medal game. Australia and Sweden will face off Sunday at 7:00 p.m. (7:00 a.m. EDT) for the bronze medal. No matter the outcome, Taiwan is assured of its first medal in World University Games play. Sweden has also never medaled, while Australia has claimed gold once and bronze twice.

“We played great,” said Bill Fennelly, USA World University Games Team and Iowa State University head coach. “Australia was an outstanding team, a big, physical team. Our team played the way a USA Basketball team should play in a semifinal, trying to get to a gold medal game. Elena was fantastic from start to finish. Skylar got us organized offensively and defensively, and I thought Lynetta Kizer gave us a great lift off of the bench when Nneka (Ogwumike) got in foul trouble. It was a huge team effort, and it’s exciting for this team to know we have the chance to play for a gold medal. They had to earn it, and that’s the way it should be.”

As is expected whenever these two countries meet, at no matter what level, it’s a battle, and tonight was no different. While the U.S. took an early lead, Australia was never far behind, and a 9-0 run to start the fourth quarter, with scoring contributions from four different players, helped the Americans distance themselves for good.

“I think we wore them down a little bit in the second half, and they were probably a little tired from running up and down with us because we really get out in transition,” said Delle Donne. “Also, we were really grabbing rebounds and limiting their second chances.”

With the U.S. holding a 53-46 edge heading into the final stanza, neither team was able to get anything to fall until Nnemkadi Ogwumike (Stanford/Cypress, Texas) got a put-back at 8:35, sparking a 9-0 streak of unanswered points that saw Peters drive to the hoop for a two, Delle Donne go in for a layin and Diggins convert a 3-point play. With 6:40 to play in the contest, the U.S. finally was able to pull away from Australia, 62-46.

The Aussies didn’t bow out quietly, but they were never again able to cut it to single digits as the U.S. advanced to the gold medal contest.

“Throughout the tournament coach has always said our third quarter is our worst quarter, so I think we wanted to really pull away,” said Diggins, who also dished out four assists. “With us only being up by four points, we were very uncomfortable with that lead. We wanted to stretch it out and really try to push the first couple minutes of the second half to get us going. And then off the bench, we had great energy and intensity to help us maintain that lead. Luckily the time ran off the clock because they are a smart team, and they are very capable of coming back. We were just glad we were able to hold on.”

Australia got the first lead of the game, but it was short lived. With the score knotted at 6-6 after a pair of throws by Nneka Ogwumike at 7:09 in the first stanza, Delle Donne notched the game’s next five points, a jumper at the top of the key and a 3-pointer, giving her side a lead at 6:32 that it would never relinquish. That also kick-started a 10-2 run by the red, white and blue, and at 4:16 the U.S. led 16-8. Australia answered back with a 9-4 spurt to cut the USA’s lead to 20-17 at the end of the first period.

The second quarter was a back-and-forth fight as neither team managed to string together more than four consecutive points, and at halftime the USA’s lead was four, 31-27.

Diggins and Delle Donne hit back-to-back buckets to start the second half, which were followed by a jumper by Devereaux Peters (Notre Dame/Chicago, Ill.). With Australia on its heels, the American women looked to be starting to pull away as Shekinna Stricklen (Tennessee/Morrilton, Ark.) knocked down a three to cap the USA’s 9-0 run at 7:40.

The Australians wouldn’t back down easily, however. Capitalizing on a defensive lapse by the U.S., they put together an 11-3 run, and with 3:50 remaining in the quarter the gap was narrowed to five points, 43-38.

Seven seconds later, Natalie Novosel (Notre Dame/Lexington, Ky.) drove to the hoop, was fouled and converted on a three-point play and then came back down and netted a 3-pointer, giving the U.S. a double-digit margin, 49-38, with 3:11 to go in the quarter. Australia again fought back, and with 10 minutes remaining in the contest, clipped it to 53-46.

Neither team shot well, with the American women hitting 38.5 percent (30-78 FGs) of its tries and Australia shooting 37.1 percent (26-70 FGs) from the field. In a night when the USA’s shots weren’t falling, however, rebounding keyed the team’s victory as the squad outrebounded Australia 54-41, with 16 of them coming on the offensive end.

In addition to Delle Donne and Diggins, the USA was aided to victory by eight points from Peters and Chiney Ogwumike (Stanford/Cypress, Texas), Lynetta Kizer (Maryland/Woodbridge, Va.) scored seven points and grabbed eight rebounds and Nneka Ogwumike also chipped in seven points.

Foul trouble limited Nneka Ogwumike’s minutes in the first half as she was whistled for her second foul at 6:41 in the first stanza and did not reenter the game until the second half. She and her sister Chiney were called for four each. Australia also was hampered by fouls as 2010 Australia World Championship Team member Abby Bishop fouled out of the game and three of her side’s top players had four apiece by the end of the night.

“Bless the officials because we were both in there fighting,” said Chiney Ogwumike. “Australia plays a different style of basketball than us, and some of the things they do, like the way they set screens and they way the cut through the paint, are different than what we have seen. We struggled with that, and they struggled with the way we played inside and our post presence. Luckily, none of us fouled out, and I think that is a testament to our poise.”

Australia, which lists five members of its senior national team pool on its World University Games roster, was led by two who are not members of the Opals roster as Nicole Hunt scored 18 points and Cayla Francis finished with 15 points and a game-best 14 rebounds.

Listing a roster that averages 5’9”, the USA’s gold medal opponent, Taiwain, will be quite different than Australia.

“We are going to go from the biggest, strongest team we’ve seen to the shortest, quickest team we’ve seen,” said Fennelly. “It will be an interesting game, and we have one day to prepare. There are only two teams that have a chance to win a gold medal, and we are one of them.”

Assisting Fennelly on the USA sideline are Suzie McConnell-Serio of Duquesne University and Terri Williams-Flournoy of Georgetown University.

The World University Games are a multi-sport competition organized every other year by the International University Sports Federation (FISU). The USA women’s basketball team is comprised of U.S. citizens who are currently enrolled in college and have remaining eligibility.

USA Basketball women’s teams have participated in 15 prior World University Games and collected a record seven gold medals, six silvers and one bronze medal. Since 1973, the first year the USA women competed in the WUGs, the United States has compiled an 89-15 overall record entering the 2011 event and is now 94-15 all-time through its first four games of 2011. In 2009, led by 2010 FIBA World Champion Tina Charles, the USA posted a 7-0 slate en route to the gold medal.

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USA MEDAL COUNT:  Gold-12  Silver-13  Bronze-6  TOTAL:31

Swimming

Jennifer Connolly (West Lafayette, Ind.) 50m back                         28.13                Gold (GR)

4×100 medleyrelay     4:00.15             Silver

Matt McLean (Sterling, Va.)                            200m free                     1:47.44             Gold

Haley Anderson (Granite Bay, Calif.)          1500m free                    16.21.79            Gold

Tyler Harris (Richmond, Va.)                        400m IM                        4:15.40             Bronze

Bill Cregar (Sewell, N.J.)                                  400m IM                        4:23.31             8th

Annie Chandler (San Antonio, Texas)      4x100m medley relay     4:00.15             Silver

Lyndsay DePaul (Orange, Calif.)                4x100m medley relay     4:00.15             Silver

Megan Romano (St. Petersburg, Fla.)       4x100m medley relay     4:00.15             Silver

Andie Taylor (Sammamish, Wash.)                200m fly                       2:12.94             7th

Men’s Basketball

USA defeats Israel 94-84

JaMychal Green 16 points.  The Men’s Team is now 5-0 and have

Women’s Basketball

USA defeats Finland 96-30

All 11 available players scored as Elena Delle Donne (Delaware/Wilmington, Del.) and Devereaux Peters (Notre Dame/Chicago, Ill.) all had 17 points

Beach Volleyball

Emily Day & Heather Hughes  (USA Team 1)  Lost to Brazil 2-0

Defeated Slovakia 2-0.  Advance Semi Finals vs. China 1 at 10am Friday.

Diving

Results Summary – Women’s Platform

13th Amelia  Cozad 275.20 (9th in Prelims with 304.05)

14th Katherine Bell 271.25 (7th in Prelims with 309.10)

20th Carrie Dragland 250.15

Archery

Men’s Team Compound- lost semi final match.  Took Bronze Medal match to a one-arrow shoot off and Adam Gallant shot nearly dead center to win the BRONZE MEDAL!  Zachary Plannick, Adam Wruck, and Adam Gallant.

Mixed Team Compound- Zachary Plannick and Kendal Nicely took SILVER MEDAL vs. Korea!

Taekwondo

Rene Chen (women’s individual) performed Taeguek 5 and Taeguek 6.  Chen was 11th in the standings going into the semifinals, where she performed Taeguek 8 and Koryo, which bumped her up to an impressive 6th place going into the finals.  In the finals, Chen performed Keumgang and Taebaek and overall finish of 8th place.  Ryan Lien advanced to the semifinals with Taeguek 7 and 8, but placed 16th in the semis with Koryo and Keumgang, and didn’t advance to the finals.

Diving

Results Summary – Women’s Platform

13th Amelia  Cozad 275.20 (9th in Prelims with 304.05)

14th Katherine Bell 271.25 (7th in Prelims with 309.10)

20th Carrie Dragland 250.15

Golf

Women’s Team Tied 6^th Men’s Team Tied 2^nd

Catherine O’Donnell- 77                                       Jace Long- 69

Brooke Beeler- 76                                              Vincent India- 70

Caroline Powers- 71                                           Jason Millard- 73

Alex Carpenter- 72

INDIVIDUAL

Emily Talley 75                                                        Nick Benton 74

Tessa Teachman 73

Water Polo

USA Women defeat Great Britain

Final score: 8-11