Alliance Bank in Rensselaer will be hosting a meet and greet ice cream social in honor of Rensselaer’s own Olympic Team hopeful, Kyla Chapman. Chapman has been training at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs since January in the hopes of competing in the 2016 Olympic Games as a triathlete.
Plymouth local Morgan Uceny will be making her grab for the Gold at the London Olympics today, having earned her way to the 1500-meter finals by finishing third in her heat Wednesday afternoon. She finished her race in just over four minutes, clocking in at 4:05.34 – more than a second faster than her first round qualifying time of 4:06.87.
In the preliminaries, Uceny had finished second in her heat and ninth overall, advancing to the semi-finals where she ended third in her heat and 13th overall. Uceny just missed first place in the semi-finals by a few hundredths of a second.
A 2003 Plymouth High graduate finished first at the U.S. Olympic Trials Sunday night in Eugene, Oregon in the 1,500 meter run meaning she’s headed to the Olympics for the first time. It’s believed Morgan Uceny is the first Plymouth native to make the U.S. Olympic team.
