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 Pan American Games - Field Hockey Canada
Bubli Chohan was selected as the Flag Bearer of the Canadian Delegation for the 1995 Pan Am Games in Mar del Plata; he is still the most capped Canadian player with 286 caps.
Field hockey was introduced in the Pan American Games in 1967 (Winnipeg) for the Men, and in 1987 (Indianapolis) for the Women.
Kelvin Woods also participated in 3 Pan American games: although he didn't stand on the higher step of the podium, he still collected 2 Silver medals (1975 in Mexico and 1979 in San Juan) and 1 Bronze Medal (1971 in Cali).
www.fieldhockey.ca /e/nationalteams/panams   (384 words)

  
 AT&T News Release, 1995-03-08, AT&T hosts athletes' family center at 1995 Pan Am Games
The Pan American Games, held the year preceding the Olympic Summer Games, are an amateur sports competition for athletes in North, South, Central America and the Caribbean.
For the '95 Pan Am Games, AT&T Calling and Hospitality Centers will be located in Mar del Plata, the primary venue for the Games, and in Buenos Aires, where select events will be held.
The Games were created to unite the Americas in peaceful competition, as well as give athletes the opportunity to prepare for the Olympic Games.
www.att.com /news/0395/950308.csa.html   (384 words)

  
 Orange County Taekwondo on KillerOrange!™
He competed in four world Championships, three Pan-American championships, four US open and two South American Games, two times went to train in Korea.
In 1995, Master Amsler received his USTU National Referee Certification and was appointed Taekwondo Director of the California State Games held in Anaheim.
He is also the first to bring Taekwondo to the public school system as an accredited course, when he was invited to teach at the Orange County High School of the Arts in Santa Ana, CA.
www.killerorange.com /KillerRefs/Category/martialarttaekwondo.htm   (2039 words)

  
 alexander.htm
She also won medals in the Pan American Games, Goodwill games, Pan-Pacific competitions and several European Open Championships, was the flag bearer for Canada in the '84 worlds in Rome and team captain in the Atlanta Olympics where she bid farewell to a highly successful career with a silver medal.
In 1995, she was chosen Ontario's Female Athlete of the Year and between 1993 and '96, Alexander The Great reigned as Mississauga's Female Athlete of the Year four times (sharing the honours with gymnast Stella Umeh in '94 and water skier Judy McClintock Messer in '95).
At the height of her considerable accomplishments, swimming buddies used to call her Alexander The Great-a most fitting monicker for the Mississauga synchronized swimmer who had gone on from the obscurity of a learn-to-swim program at the Huron Park Recreation Centre's pool to rule Canada and conquer much of the aquatic world.
www.thspeed.com /demo/msc/famehall/alexander.htm   (426 words)

  
 The Year in American Soccer, 1995
Like the US Pan-American Games performance, this was nothing to write home about.
The Americans started off well, defeating Finland 2-0 and Portugal 3-0, but their game against Denmark was the day after the Portugal victory.
The US had been invited along with Mexico to this South American tournament, and quickly made their impact felt in a 2-1 upset over Chile on July 8.
www.sover.net /~spectrum/year/1995.html   (426 words)

  
 Peninsular Rose Club - The Silken Laumann Rose
After both victory and disappointment at the 1995 Pan American Games (she won a gold in singles, but blood testing found a banned ingredient in an over-the-counter cold medicine approved by doctors, and resulted in the gold won by the Canadian fours being forfeit), her career was focussed on the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.
By the time of the 1994 Commonwealth Games, there were thousands of bright orange/red miniatures produced.
The Commonwealth Games were to be in my home city of Victoria in 1994.
www.nurserysite.com /clubs/peninsular/silken.html   (643 words)

  
 The Year in American Soccer, 1995
The 1995 Pan-American soccer tournament was held in Argentina, and like many of the previous tournaments, the US had little to be proud of in its performance, especially considering that this U-23 team would be playing in the Olympics on home turf the following year.
The playoff tournament, dubiously titled the "Swizzling Six" was basically a modified round robin consisting of the top two teams from each division, with each team playing games on August 11 and 12 against two non-division opponents.
The divisional playoffs were largely a formality, as all but one of the divisional champions won the playoff series.
www.sover.net /~spectrum/year/1995.html   (6893 words)

  
 1948 In Sports [Definition]
General sporting events Multi-Sport Events Arctic Winter Games Asian Games Canada Games Commonwealth Games Francophone Games Gaelic Games Gay Games Goodwill Games Nordic Games Pan American Games Paralympic Games Special Olympic Games Summer Olympic Games Winter Olympic Games World Games World Wheelchair Games X Games...
They are most recently known for their ongoing record of 13 consecutive division championships (1991-2004, except for the strike shortened 1994 season), the most in any professional North American sport, while collecting only one World Series championship in that time (in 1995, also a strike shortened season)....
As such its prestige as the sport's premier domestic cup competition is without par around the world.
www.wikimirror.com /1948_in_sports   (6893 words)

  
 Athletics Department:  6/12 Softball
Prior to her Olympic experience, she represented Canada in the Pan American Games in 1995 in Parana, Argentina, and the Pan American Qualifying Tournament where she had the most wins in the tournament and a 0.00 ERA.
Foti reunites with his former pitcher and hopes to bring the same success to Mercer that resulted in the two winning four Canadian National Championships and competing at World and Pan American Championships and the 1996 Olympic games.
A four-time NAIA All-American, Sonnenberg was named District 27 Player of the Year each of her four years at Huntingdon College where she played under the tutelage of current Auburn head coach Tina Deese.
www2.mercer.edu /Athletics/News/020612softball.htm   (6893 words)

  
 The Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame To Induct Class of 2000 Friday Night :: Cy Young Award winner, Women's World Cup standout, LPGA Hall of Famer highlight 13-member class.
Also earned a silver medal at the 1995 Pan American Games.
Member of the 1980 team that boycotted the Summer Games in Moscow, won a silver medal in the 200-meter breaststroke at the 1984 games in Los Angeles and also competed at the 1988 games in Seoul...Silver medalist at the 1983 Pan American Games...
Stanford, Calif. - The 13-member Stanford University Athletic Hall of Fame class of 2000 will be inducted tonight in a ceremony at the Stanford Faculty Club.
gostanford.collegesports.com /genrel/102700aaa.html   (1131 words)

  
 Davidheiser, Downey, James, Morris, and Trombly To Be Inducted in ODU Sports Hall Of Fame :: April 29 at Ted Constant Convocation Center
She served as vice-captain for the USA field hockey squad at the 1998 World Cup, and tied for the team scoring lead for team USA in the 1999 Pan American games.
Patrick Downey, a three-time All-American sailor, was instrumental in Old Dominion's third place finish in the 1995 ICYRA Team Race National Championships and eighth place finish at the ICYRA Dinghy National Championships.
Ericka Davidheiser, a two-time lacrosse All-American, was the 1995 Old Dominion University Alumni Association Female Athlete of the Year, and four-time All-CAA selection.
odusports.collegesports.com /genrel/041003aaa.html   (1219 words)

  
 Diomo Enterprises
In 1995, Janet was the Pan American Games Champion and has won seven Pan Am Medals for the four Pan American Games she attended.
Diomo Enterprises was started in 1993 by Janet Dykman, a three-time member of the United States Women's Olympic Archery Team.
After observing the best in the world at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, her own Olympic dream took hold and she made the World Outdoor Championship Archery Team in 1989 and started competing around the world winning her way to her first U.S. Olympic Team in 1996.
www.gotarrows.com /about/index.cfm   (1219 words)

  
 Amy Van Dyken - Premiere Speaker Bureau - Motivational Speakers
Van Dyken swam on the record setting U.S. Teams which won both the 400-meter freestyle and the medley relay crowns at the 1995 Pan American Games.
However, at the Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, Van Dyken won two individual medals and two team medals to become the first American woman ever to win four gold medals in a single Olympics.
With all of her accomplishments, Van Dyken has become the third-fastest non-Chinese woman in the history of the 50m freestyle (25.03) and fifth-fastest American woman ever in the 100m freestyle (55.27).
64.77.9.116 /bios/dyken.htm   (599 words)

  
 Player Bio: Patrick Burrows :: Field Hockey
Burrows twice earned a gold medal at the Pan American Games (1983, ’87) and won a silver in 1995.
During his playing career, he competed in two Olympic Games (1984, ’88), three World Cups (1986, ’90, ’98) and three Pan American Games (1983, ’87, ’95).
Burrows earned a total of 224 national team caps before retiring after the 1998 World Cup in Utrecht, Holland.
gostanford.collegesports.com /sports/w-fieldh/mtt/burrows_patrick00.html   (147 words)

  
 SDUIS: Articles: Profile of a Winner
He started his career with the Junior World record in the 800 meters in Brazil in 1981, his latest victory was in the 1995 Pan American Games with a gold medal in the 1500 meters and the Pan American record with 3:40:26.
Joaquim Cruz has qualified for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, and is presently competing in Europe/South America..
After the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, Joaquim, his wife and son are planning on spending some time in Brazil.
www.sduis.edu /articles/profile.html   (1094 words)

  
 Jelly Belly - PoolGel Pro Cycling Team Team members
My most embarrassing moment was in 1995 at the Pan American Games in Argentina, when I literally took my Team out in the qualifying round.
We qualified 8th, and went on to win a Gold Medal in our first Pan American Games.
Luckily, we made it in anyway because there were only 8 teams that qualified.
www.jellybellycycling.com /Team_Members/friedrick.htm   (390 words)

  
 Council Members - Dorothy G. Richardson, M.D., Vice Chair
In addition to her Olympic medals, Dr. Richardson was also a Gold medallist in softball at the 1999, 1995, 1987 and 1979 Pan American Games; a Silver medallist at the 1983 Pan American Games; and a Gold medallist at the 1986 Women's World Championship.
Dot Richardson received her B.S. degree in Kinesiology and Pre-Med from the University of California Los Angeles, her Masters in Exercise Physiology/Health from Adelphi University, and her Doctor of Medicine from the University of Louisville Medical School.
In addition to her medical career, Dr. Richardson is a well-known athlete in the sport of softball.
www.fitness.gov /aboutpcpfs/members/richardson/richardson.html   (390 words)

  
 International Triathlon, Duathlon and Aquathlon Championships
Triathlon was first included on the Pan American Games programme in 1995.
Triathlon was included on the programme of the World Games in 1993.
Medallists in Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games Triathlons are listed on the pages for those events.
www.gbrathletics.com /sport/tri.htm   (390 words)

  
 Derek Parra - Olympic Gold & Silver Medal Speedskater
He was the most decorated athlete at 1995 Pan-Am Games winning 5 gold, 2 silver and a bronze medal.
Derek is also the first-ever Mexican American to compete in, and medal, in the Olympic Winter Games.
In February of 2001 he won a silver medal at the World Single Distance Championships (1500 meters) setting a new American Record and marking himself as "one to watch at the 2002 Olympic Games".
www.qsports.net /webdp.html   (511 words)

  
 Oregon State Daily Barometer Online - Women's swimming picks Liebowitz as head coach
Liebowitz, 53, served as an assistant coach for the U.S. men's team at the 1999 Pan American Games and was also an assistant coach at the 1997 World University Games.
He was coach of the United States men's team in the 1995 Pan Am Games and coach of the 1988 Costa Rica Olympic team.
Larry Liebowitz is the new women's swimming head coach at Oregon State, it was announced Aug. 20 by OSU Athletic Director Bob De Carolis.
barometer.orst.edu /vnews/display.v/ART/2003/08/29/3f7a060a0f306?in_archive=1   (511 words)

  
 Long Beach State Athletics
Azevedo has been on the sidelines for the U.S. Senior Team at the World Championships in Italy (1994), Japan (2001) and Spain (2003); at the FINA Cup in Serbia (2002), Greece (1993) and Atlanta (1995) and at the Pan American Games in Argentina (1995) and the Dominican Republic (2003).
He was the head coach for the largest age group water polo program in the U.S. and led his team to the U.S. Age Group National Championship in 1994, 1995 and 1998.
A two-time All-American (1975, 1977), Azevedo went on to Long Beach State where he was a member of the 49er teams in 1978 and 1979.
www.longbeachstate.com /polo/wpolo/BIO/bioazevedo02.htm   (1096 words)

  
 1995-96 Michigan Men's Swimming and Diving
He has also coached the 1979 FINA Cup in Tokyo, the 1983 and 1987 Pan-American Games, the 1984, 1988, 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games, the 1986 and 1990 World Championships, the 1990 Goodwill Games, and the 1990 International Cup of Rome meet.
He has represented Turkey in the 1992 Olympics, 1994 World Championships, and 1995 European Championship in both backstroke events, and was named Turkey's 1991 Sportsman of the Year.
Twenty-four of his swimmers have made Olympic teams, including: 1988 gold medalist Brent Lang; current world record-holder and 1992 Olympic gold medalist Mike Barrowman (200 breast); American record-holder and '92 Olympic silver medalist Eric Namesnik (400 IM); and world record-holder (100 free, shortcourse) and '92 Olympic silver medalist Gustavo Borges (100 free).
www.umich.edu /~mgoblue/swimming-m/95-96/olympics.html   (1096 words)

  
 onix?isbn=1888363673
Westbrook was a flag-bearer at the closing ceremonies of the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain, and again at the opening ceremonies of the 1995 Pan-American Games in Mar del Plata, Argentina.
In 1996, he was one of only three American sabrists chosen to compete for the gold in the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, his sixth Olympic Games, an incredible twenty-year Olympic career.
Westbrook's success in what he once called "that strange white sport" is really just one expression of the self-discipline that has led him to beat the odds, again and again.
www.sevenstories.com /onix?isbn=1888363673   (613 words)

  
 PanAm Games 2003
“I feel bad Glenn didn’t get his medal, but we all know he shot well and earned it.” This is Wunderle’s third straight Pan American Games and his fifth gold medal.
Wunderle took the match 166-158, advancing to the quarterfinals, where he met Hugh MacDonald (Canada) and won the match 111-109, setting a new 12-arrow Pan American record.
In the semifinals, Wunderle went head to head with fellow teammate Meyers and took the match 112-97, breaking his own 12-arrow Pan Am record he set earlier in the quarterfinals.
texasarchery.org /Photos/PanAm03/PanAm2003.htm   (613 words)

  
 Press Releases: NCAA SUPER REGIONAL AT COLLEGE STATION
AGGIES LOVE TO BREAK ATTENDANCE RECORDS: Texas A&M opened the season before an opening day record crowd of 3,838 against UT-Pan American on Feb. 5.
The closest competitor appeared to be the Baton Rouge Regional held on the LSU campus where 36,195 came through the turnstiles for an average of 5,171 in seven games.
SEASON HOMERUN RECORD: The Aggies of 1999 have established a new single-season homerun record with 120 homeruns in 60 games played thus far.
sports.tamu.edu /press/pressRelease.php?PRID=3488   (613 words)

  
 Rider Biography
Showing no sign of slowing down in 1995, Michael earned another Gold medal at the Pan American Games in Argentina.
Michael was also honored by being asked to carry the US flag in the closing ceremonies of the Games.
Michael has been awarded the USET Show Jumping Championship Trophy an unprecedented six times, the last being in June of 1995 at the Festival of Champions in Gladstone, NJ.
www.stadiumjumping.com /aga/cfm/rider_profile.cfm?rider_id=82   (745 words)

  
 Eric Thomas
He bounced back to win the national JUCO title as a sophomore before transferring to Abilene Christian in 1995.
2003: 4th in semifinal at World Outdoors (49.00)…Pan Am Games silver medalist (48.74)…1st at Fort-de-France (48.61)…4th at Zurich (48.46)…3rd at Ostrava (48.63)…1st at Osaka (49.06)…best of 48.63…ranked #9 in the world (#2 U.S.) by TandFN.
Career Highlights: 2000 Olympic Trials runner-up; 1999 and 2003 Pan American Games silver medalist
www.usatf.org /athletes/bios/Thomas_Eric.asp   (423 words)

  
 Player Bio: Tony Sandoval :: Cross Country
A five-time U.S. national team coach, Sandoval served as the head coach for the 1995 U.S. Junior Pan American women's track and field team in Santiago, Chile.
He also was an assistant coach for the U.S. team at the 1991 Pan American Games in Cuba, head coach of the 1987 U.S. junior team that competed in Cuba and Canada, and head coach for the U.S. at the World Cross Country Championships in Glascow, Scotland (1978), and Madrid, Spain (1981).
Sandoval also was the head women's track and field and cross country coach at Cal from 1982-91, prior to the merger of the men's and women's programs into a single entity in 1992.
calbears.collegesports.com /sports/c-xc/mtt/sandoval_tony00.html   (875 words)

  
 Wrestling Canada Lutte Stats
Canada placed a close third behind powers Cuba and the USA in the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata, Argentina.
Canada had a silver medal performance by Guivi Sissaouri at 57 KG at the 1995 World Senior Championships and the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia.
Guivi wrestles for the Montreal Wrestling Club, and is coached by Victor Zilberman and Rob Moore.
www.wrestling.ca /about/stats.php   (875 words)

  
 cubasports.com - Cuba sports almanac. Why are Cubans such talented athletes? Sports travel.
One must also consider his victories in two Pan-American Games, 1995 and 1999, as well as his title in the Central American and Caribbean Games in 1998.
In what many consider a prowess, Anier Garcia made his way to the Athens Olympics in 2004 after a cycle in which he had to cope with lesions that came accompanied by a notorious overweight.
He was able to overcome a previous season without amazing results and arrived third in the competition of the Hellenic capital with a mark of 13.2 seconds to win the Bronze Medal.
www.cubasports.com /english/estrellas/aniergarcia.asp   (278 words)

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