Jason Morris Coaching Notes
My final thoughts of this edition of the Pan Am Games held in Brazil
are
happy and proud ones. Team USA pulled together (USOC staff, USA
Judo staff
& athletes) to turn in one of the best Pan Am Games results
in our
history which included three gold despite the growing difficulty of judo
worldwide... more>
Day 4 Competition Photo Gallery
Day 3 Competition Photo Gallery
 Ryan Reser Named Outstanding Judoka
Reser, the Champion in the 73kg division, was honored on Sunday with the Oustanding Judoka and Ippon Trophy awards... more>
 Rodriguez Celebrates 17th Birthday with a Bronze
Jeanette Rodriguez became a little bit older
and a lot more credentialed when she turned 17-years-old and won bronze in the
48kg division on Sunday at the Pan American Games... more>
 Reser and Stevens Win
Gold, Gotay Takes Silver
The
roads Ryan Reser and Travis Stevens have taken
may be different, but on Saturday, the results were both the same – Pan American
Games gold.
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Qestions with Ryan Reser
Two-time Pan American Champion Ryan Reser took
a break earlier this week to answer 10 questions about like in the village,
international apparel and steakhouses. Ryan will compete in the 73kg division on Saturday. Then he’s going to get a steak…
 Rousey Wins Gold Over Brazil, Hawn Wins Bronze
Since
she was a child, Ronda Rousey has had her eyes on one thing – winning gold at
the Olympic Games.
On Friday, Rousey came one step closer when she won the gold
medal in the Pan American Games in the 70kg division, marking her third
international medal (and second gold) in as many tries after moving up from
63kg in February...more>
Day 2 Preview
Tournament Draws
 Heavyweights Go Winless on First Day
Asma Sharif and Kirk Hoffmann each lost in the
preliminary rounds of the first day of competition.
Hoffmann, the reigning Pan Am Championships bronze medalist,
lost in the opening round to Carlos
Cisneros (ARG), a fifth-place finisher at the 2006 Pan Ams... more>
Jason Morris Coaches Notes
Team USA Coach Jason Morris talks about the team's preparation for this week's event.
The team has settled in nicely for the last few
days. Spirits are high as the anticipation of competing in such an important
event has them very excited. Training sessions have been going well... more>
Heavyweight Preview
Kirk Hoffmann and Asma Sharif will be the first two USA Judo athletes to compete
at the Pan American Games on Thursday. Hoffmann is a defending bronze medalist from the 2007 Pan Ams while Sharif is making her international heavyweight debut... more>
Day 2 Practice Photo Gallery
Ryan Reser and Valerie Gotay Named Team Captains
The U.S. Men’s and Women’s Judo Teams named Ryan Reser and Valerie Gotay as Team Captains for the Pan American Games. Reser and Gotay are both reigning Pan American Champions after winning the 2007 Pan Am Championships in Montreal on May 25... more>
Smiles from Rio: Team USA Goes Sightseeing
Team First Day of Practice Photo Gallery
Team Arrival Photo Gallery
Pan American Games Team Photo
Pan American Games Men's Team Photo
Pan American Games Women's Team Photo
 PR Girl Visits the Village
One of the first things you always do at a Games is scope out your credential for “the goodies.” Designed with photos, holograms, letters, numbers and barcodes (no really, you get scanned like produce at certain places), the book to decode these things must be Calculus 3 thick.
But one of the first things I look for (after “which venues can I get into?”) is “what’s my level of village access?” and “do I have the knife and fork?”... more>
 Team USA Arrives for Processing
Check out photos of the U.S. Team arriving at George Mason University for processing on Thursday... more>
Pan American All-Competitor Participant List
The master list of the competitors from all 21 countries competing at the Pan American Games.
 PR Girl Does a Blog…
Since I usually spend most trips following athletes around with a laptop begging for blogs, I thought while I wait for Team USA’s arrival, I’d share a few thoughts of my own on Rio.
I’ve worked a couple Games in the past, but never a Pan Ams (during the last one in Santo Domingo I was at the Blind Worlds in Quebec and the World University Games in Korea, but I heard I missed some fun tales!).
So I wasn’t really sure what to expect, other than a trip to yet another country where I don’t speak the language... more>
Competition Schedule (All Times Local)
July 19
10:00. – 14:00 Men’s +100kg Preliminaries
Women’s +78kg Preliminaries
14:00 – 16:00 Men’s +100kg Medal Rounds
Women’s +78kg Medal Rounds
July 20
10:00 – 14:00 Men’s 90kg, 100kg Preliminaries
Women’s 70kg, 78kg Preliminaries
14:00 – 16:00 Men’s 90kg, 100kg Medal Rounds
Women’s 70kg, 78kg Medal Rounds
July 21
10:00 – 14:00 Men’s 73kg, 81kg Preliminaries
Women’s 57kg, 63kg Preliminaries
14:00 – 16:00 Men’s 73kg, 81kg Medal Rounds
Women’s 57kg, 63kg Medal Rounds
July 22
10:00 – 14:00 Men’s 60kg, 66kg Preliminaries
Women’s 48kg, 52kg Preliminaries
14:00 – 16:00 Men’s 60kg, 66kg Medal Rounds
Women’s 48kg, 52kg Medal Rounds
Judo Team Leaves for Pan American Games on Friday
(Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) – The countdown to the next major Olympic qualifier begins when the USA Judo Team departs for the Pan American Games on Friday.
Fourteen athletes will compete at the Pan Am Games from July 19-22 in Rio de Janeiro. A multi-sport event, the Games include an estimated 5,500 competitors from 42 nations in more than 30 sports.
Even more important, the Games are serving as the largest of the Olympic qualifying tournaments and will represent 33% of the total of a five-event series that began with the 2006 Pan American Championships in Buenos Aires, Argentina and progressed to the 2007 Pan Ams in Montreal which were held in May.
Among the athletes competing in Rio are four of the 10 medalists from the Pan Ams in Montreal... more> |
