Pan Am Team - Scott, Mossberg, Suhr, Bennett

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INDIANAPOLIS – Athletes with World Championships and Olympic experience, and a core group of young talent, will lead Team USA into the 2011 Pan American Games slated to be held October 24-29 in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Fourteen 2011 World Championships team members are on the 90-person Team USA roster for the Pan Am Games. The roster consists of 46 men and 44 women.

The men’s team for the Pan American Games includes five field-event athletes who made the trip to World Outdoors in Daegu, South Korea. It includes reigning USA Outdoor hammer throw champion Kibwe Johnson, who will be making his second appearance at the Pan Am Games and placed second in 2007; 2011 USA Outdoors discus champion and 2008 Olympic Trials champion Jarred Rome; 2011 USA hammer throw runner-up Michael Mai; two-time USA discus runner-up Jason Young; and 2009 USA Indoor pole vault champion Jeremy Scott. On the track, World Outdoor 4x400m gold medalist Michael Berry will compete in the open 400. In Daegu, Berry clocked a split of 43.83 in the first round of the relay. Although he did not compete in the final, Berry’s split was the fastest of the Championships for Team USA.

The women’s team is led by two-time (‘99, ‘03) Pan Am Games gold medalist and three-time Olympian Aretha Thurmond in the discus and 2008 Olympic Games silver medalist and 2008 World Indoor silver medalist Jenn Suhr in the pole vault. Suhr is the American indoor and outdoor record holder and currently owns five USA Outdoor and five USA Indoor titles.

Thurmond and Suhr both competed in Daegu. In Guadalajara they will be joined by several World Outdoor teammates: three-time USA Outdoor champion and the 2003 Pan American Junior gold medalist Michelle Carter in the shot put; four-time USA Outdoor runner-up and 2010 USA champion Amber Campbell in the hammer throw; 2008 NCAA Outdoor shot put champion Sarah Stevens-Walker; 2010 and 2011 USA Outdoor 20km RW champion Maria Michta; 2010 USA Outdoor discus runner-up Gia Lewis-Smallwood; and 2010 PAC-10 Outdoor high jump champion Inika Mcpherson.

Cliff Rovelto is the men’s head coach and Angie Taylor is women’s head coach. Team managers are Manny Bautista and Kim Keenan-Kirkpatrick.


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