{"id":212098,"date":"2015-10-09T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T20:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=212098"},"modified":"2015-10-09T06:00:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T20:00:06","slug":"world-university-vet-wants-to-introduce-archery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/world-university-vet-wants-to-introduce-archery\/","title":{"rendered":"World University vet wants to introduce archery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympic sport of archery may soon be played in the CNMI as former collegiate archer Rachel Bouchillon aims to teach the basics to anyone interested.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_212104\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-212104\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Archery-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Archery-pix-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Rachel Bouchillon, right, competes in last year\u2019s World University Archery Championships in Legnica, Poland. (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-212104\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-212104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel Bouchillon, right, competes in last year\u2019s World University Archery Championships in Legnica, Poland. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bouchillon, who is new on Saipan, attended last night\u2019s Northern Marianas Sports Association monthly meeting where she introduced herself to the members.<\/p>\n<p>She said that she bought her old equipment when she arrived on Saipan and she wanted to start a program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m still new here on the island. I\u2019m still trying to get a feel of everything. But I am interested in starting a program,\u201d said Bouchillon, who works at the Coastal Resource Management.<\/p>\n<p>She represented Team USA in last year\u2019s World University Archery Championships in Legnica, Poland, where she competed against top archers in the recurve event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was selected for Team USA in last year\u2019s World University Championships. We are 12 in the team with three men\u2019s and women\u2019s in the compound and recurve events,\u201d added the University of Florida alum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone who wants to learn archery, I am willing to share my skills and knowledge. I\u2019m already thinking on how to get more equipment. Like get a grant or something,\u201d said Bouchillon.<\/p>\n<p>NMSA president Mike White welcomed Bouchillon and advised her to attend the monthly meetings, set up a federation, and become a member of the CNMI sports governing body.<\/p>\n<p>He also informed her that she should get in touch with Pacific Islands Club Sports, Entertainment, and Activities director Glenn Policare if ever she wanted to have a temporary training facility.<\/p>\n<p>PIC has an archery range but it is used mostly for recreation by hotel guests. The facility, however, was damaged during Typhoon Soudelor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympic sport of archery may soon be played in the CNMI as former collegiate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26,439,7474,7475],"class_list":["post-212098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-cnmi","tag-poland","tag-rachel-bouchillon","tag-world-university-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}