Today was a big day! Today was the day I, and the rest of my teammates, officially became Olympians! It is still hard to believe! I am so honored to represent my country and Lancaster County at such an amazing competition. Okay moving on to more exciting things. Our first game. Tonight we played in […]

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Opening Ceremonies was amazing! I can’t really describe it in any other way. The whole night for us lasted about 8 hours. We left the village at 5pm and returned a little after 1am. Our first experience of the night was USA staging in the fencing hall. All of the USA athletes attending the […]

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Tonight is the night that we have all been waiting for! The 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremonies. We are all very excited about going to the big show. I believe that they will be aired at home for you folks on NBC at 7:30pm. I hope you can tune in and watch. We will be about […]

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Wow… do I have a lot to catch you all up on. The last two days have been very busy for us here in China. Besides are practicing and getting used to the humidity and smog we had a chance to do some sight seeing. Wednesday morning we practiced and then left for our excursion […]

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Thanks to the Janke Family for their support. This includes my older sister Kelly, her husband Bryan, and her two adorable children Olivia and Ben!!!

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Hello to all,
Today has been a very exciting day thus far. We had breakfast in the village dinning hall and saw Misty May and Kerri Walsh. They are the gold medal favorites for the women’s beach volleyball competition. We then went to practice. Today we got to practice on pitch A. Which is the […]

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Hello Everyone,
We made it to China safely! It was a very very long flight, about 12 hours. Everything went pretty smoothly, we had about a 1 hour delay taking off because, the baggage belt broke so they had to bring all the luggage to the plane by hand and load it. Other than that, the […]

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Hello Everyone,
The time to leave for China is rapidly approaching. We leave in 4 days for Beijing! As you can imagine our team is very anxious to get to the Olympics and begin the tournament. It has been a long, hard 7 months leading up to this moment and we are all ready to show […]

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