This event offered the greatest competition that any AAU
team has faced. Many countries sent their National
Teams. Turkey, France and Spain all brought their
'A' and 'B' team members.
AAU Team and Non-Team
Members That Competed at the 2007 Dutch Open
Click the competitor's name to see the completed bracket
results for their division
top-left to right: Skip Valley, Greg Tubbs, Taylor
Thornton, Jason Poos and Patrice Remark
bottom: Anees Hasnain, Brandi
Powers, Jon Perieda, Taylor Stone, Samantha Saltamachia and Barbara
Kunkel.
Day one
concluded with
Samantha Saltamachia winning Silver and
Taylor Stone winning Bronze. Day two saw
Anees Hasnain win Gold. Wow! Great job. Congratulations also
to
Brandi Powers taking Silver and
Jon Perieda and
Taylor Thornton earning Bronze. The team was coached by a great
staff: Barbara Kunkel, Jason Poos, Gregg Tubbs and Patrice Remark.
Team Manager is Skip Valley. Team trainer was Trish Bare. As a
courtesy to the Dutch Open, the AAU sponsored Chuong Pham to
participate in this event as an IR.
Additional congratulations are in
order for
Anees Hasnain. She stayed on in Europe after the AAU Team
returned home. She stayed so that she could compete in the '2007
German Open' the following weekend. She won Gold.
