Today ended our Olympic competition. We played in the 7th-8th place classification game against Spain. Following our trend of the tournament we ended regulation in a 2-2 tie. Surprise surprise! We actually came out in this game rather slow again from the start and found ourselves down 1-0 pretty quick. As half time approached we […]

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Today has been a pretty busy rest day. We had a swim recovery and then lunch and then a few hours to visit with our families. I spent my family time today watching the Olympic events on TV. We actually got to watch a sailor who is a fellow ODU alum win a silver medal […]

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Tonight was our last pool play game. And once again we played great. Probably our best game of the tournament. Both us and GB needed to win this game in order for a chance to make it to the semis. Unfortunately, we tied 0-0. This was extremely tough to take because we definitely played one […]

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Well today was fairly exciting for an off day, at least the second half of the day. We had about 5 hours of free time until practice this afternoon. I spent most of the time watching some events on TV and reading my second book of the tour. Then we went to practice. While we […]

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We got our first win!!!!! We are so excited. We beat New Zealand this morning 4-1. Just like against Germany we played great. We scored on a goal by Keli Smith 40 seconds into the game. We were leading 2-0 at half time. We came out the second half a bit slow and they got […]

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Hello everyone,
I am getting ready to end day thirteen here in Beijing. Today was an off day and we had practice in the morning and a pool recovery work out. The pool recovery was fun because the men’s water polo team was practicing in the other half the pool! Other than that not much […]

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This morning we played Germany. Unfortunately we lost 4-2. Today was hard to swallow because we had a lead of 1-0 and gave it up. We played really really well. This makes it even harder to take the loss because we played really great but still came up short. It was a hot and humid […]

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Today was an off day. I spent the morning checking emails and getting some much needed rest for my legs. In the afternoon we took cabs as a team to the Bank of America Hospitality house in downtown Beijing where we met our families and friends for lunch. When we arrived the fans had whistles […]

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We came away with another point tonight. We tied Japan 1-1 after a long hard fought game. Again, we are slightly disappointed with a tie, but it is a point rather than zero. We actually dominated the majority of the game, we just couldn’t score! I have to give some credit of course to the […]

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Not much excitement going on today for us. It was an off day so we didn’t have a game. We had a late breakfast then headed over to Beijing Normal University for a recovery swim as a team. This is a local university that has opened its arms to the USOC and USA team to […]

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