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2022 USA Games: Full Recap
Team Missouri is back home safely in the Show Me State after an amazing week full of competition and fun at the 2022 USA Games in Orlando, Fla.
In total – Team Missouri brought home 71 medals in nine different sports! You can see the full breakdown below.
FINAL MEDAL COUNT
GOLD: 23
SILVER: 29
BRONZE: 19
FOURTH: 18
FIFTH: 11
SIXTH: 10
SEVENTH: 4
EIGHTH: 3
MEDAL COUNT BY SPORT
Powerlifting: 1 Gold, 2 Silvers, 1 Bronze
Flag Football: 1 Gold, 1 Bronze
Bowling: 10 Gold, 9 Silver, 2 Bronze
Swimming: 5 Silver, 6 Bronze
Track & Field: 6 Gold, 5 Silver, 2 Bronze
Tennis: 1 Silver, 1 Bronze
Golf: 4 Silver
Bocce: 4 Gold, 3 Silver, 5 Bronze
Basketball: 1 Gold, 1 Silver
67% of our Team Missouri delegation made its first ever trip to the USA Games. We polled some of the first-timers to get their thoughts on Orlando!
Mariah Lucero
1. What did you think of your first USA Games? I thought it was amazing!
2. How many medals did you come home with, and what did you get them in? 3rd place in 4×50 freestyle relay, 5th place in 25 backstroke and 100 freestyle
3. What was one thing that you really enjoyed? Everything!
4. Would you like to go to another USA Games, if so which sport? Yes! In swimming!
Jeremy Sebourn
1. What did you think of your first USA Games? I enjoyed the experience of being at USA Games.
2. How many medals did you come home with, and what did you get them in? I got three gold medals in bowling.
3. What was one thing that you really enjoyed? Going to Disney on our day off.
4. Would you like to go to another USA Games, if so for what? I would Definitely go to USA Games again and the sport I will do will be bowling again.
Janel Ronneburg
Janel Ronneburg
1. What did you think of your first USA Games? My first USA games I never thought it will be really fun but I loved it!
2. How many medals did you come home with, and what did you get them in? I do track and field. I got 2nd place running long jump and 3rd place 100 meter running and 6th place 200 meter running 3 medals!
3. What was one thing that you really enjoyed? One thing I really enjoyed it hang out with my friends and coaches, to have fun and cheer your friends while they do competition.
4. Would you like to go to another USA Games, if so which sport? I would like to go USA Games again I really like so I will go again and I would do like to track again.
Gaige Wolthuis
1. What did you think of your first USA Games? It’s was awesome. I’d like to go again.
2. How many medals did you come home with, and what did you get them in? (silver)50 m freestyle, (5th) 100 freestyle and (6th) in 50 backstroke in swimming.
3. What was one thing that you really enjoyed? Getting medals going to Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom
4. Would you like to go to another USA Games, if so which sport? Yes! In Swimming
Kenneth Walz
1. What did you think of your first USA Games? I really enjoyed the 2022 USA Games.
2. How many medals did you come home with, and what did you get them in? I came home with 1 medal it is a bronze in men’s single tennis.
3. What was one thing that you really enjoyed? The thing I enjoyed the most was making friends with the people I competed against. The guys I competed against and I checked up on each other through out the whole competition. We cheered on each other and when one of us loss we would try to cheer another up.
4. Would you like to go to another USA Games, if so which sport? I would love to go to the Games again, and I would love to go for any sport I could go for.