Redmond, a 2013 Horton graduate, is a second-year engineering student at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Recently, she represented Team Nova Scotia at the Games in Prince George, B.C.
The 19-year-old New Minas native currently trains at the Capital Region Archery Centre in Edmonton. Before going out west to attend school, she trained at the Annapolis Valley Shooting Sports Club in Canaan.
Team Nova Scotia
Redmond’s skill with the bow and arrow helped secure her spot on Team Nova Scotia early on.
“We had to get a minimum of six scores before the selection, and they took the average of that,” she explained.
“If you were two per cent or more higher (than the Games standard), you got to go right through. Otherwise, you had a shoot-off. I ended up two per cent higher, so I got to go right through.”
While competing in the individual female and team recurve events at the Games, Redmond shot a personal best en route to a fourth-place finish on day one of the individual competition. She finished day one with 497 points.
She was fifth at the end of day two with 969 points and ended up in a shoot-off with Randi Haas from Saskatchewan. Haas won the showdown 6-4, leaving Redmond fifth overall.
In the team competition, Redmond and her partner, Kyle Robichaud of Lower Sackville, defeated the Yukon 6-0, then lost 6-0 to Ontario, the eventual gold medalists, ending up eighth.
Redmond was pleased with her results.
“I’m pretty happy,” she said in a phone interview Feb. 20. “I had a personal best on the first day.”
Great experience
The Canada Games experience as a whole, she said, was wonderful.
“I was excited to be able to go and represent Nova Scotia. It was a lot of fun, and I got to meet some great people,” she said.
“I knew the Alberta archers already because I train with them.”
She also attended a training camp in New Brunswick, where she met archers from other provinces. She got to know Haas from competing against her in the individual shootout.
Redmond is fully aware she was the right age to compete in the Games this year. “This is the one and only time I’ll get to experience this,” she said.
Looking ahead
Redmond currently attends unviversity in Alberta.
“When I was at Horton, they had a program that offered different options for career choices,” she explained.
She was interested in engineering, and “when I punched it in, Alberta was the first school that came up. It had everything I wanted.” Unlike a lot of schools, she is able to do her entire five-year program there instead of having to switch midway.
Because she was in the middle of midterms during the Games, Redmond had to get right back to school after she finished competing. She still has three more years remaining to complete her degree.
She admitted to being “tired from classes and all the other preparations,” but said the experience was still a lot of fun.
Redmond’s parents, Mark and Kristen, and paternal grandparents, James and Brenda, all live in New Minas.
As for archery, she knows she won’t get to the Canada Games again, but she would “like to continue in the sport as long as I have time and am keeping up in school.”
She will remember her experience at the Canada Games for a long time.
“It was pretty good,” she said. “There was lots of cool stuff going on.”
Redmond, a 2013 Horton graduate, is a second-year engineering student at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Recently, she represented Team Nova Scotia at the Games in Prince George, B.C.
The 19-year-old New Minas native currently trains at the Capital Region Archery Centre in Edmonton. Before going out west to attend school, she trained at the Annapolis Valley Shooting Sports Club in Canaan.
Team Nova Scotia
Redmond’s skill with the bow and arrow helped secure her spot on Team Nova Scotia early on.
“We had to get a minimum of six scores before the selection, and they took the average of that,” she explained.
“If you were two per cent or more higher (than the Games standard), you got to go right through. Otherwise, you had a shoot-off. I ended up two per cent higher, so I got to go right through.”
While competing in the individual female and team recurve events at the Games, Redmond shot a personal best en route to a fourth-place finish on day one of the individual competition. She finished day one with 497 points.
She was fifth at the end of day two with 969 points and ended up in a shoot-off with Randi Haas from Saskatchewan. Haas won the showdown 6-4, leaving Redmond fifth overall.
In the team competition, Redmond and her partner, Kyle Robichaud of Lower Sackville, defeated the Yukon 6-0, then lost 6-0 to Ontario, the eventual gold medalists, ending up eighth.
Redmond was pleased with her results.
“I’m pretty happy,” she said in a phone interview Feb. 20. “I had a personal best on the first day.”
Great experience
The Canada Games experience as a whole, she said, was wonderful.
“I was excited to be able to go and represent Nova Scotia. It was a lot of fun, and I got to meet some great people,” she said.
“I knew the Alberta archers already because I train with them.”
She also attended a training camp in New Brunswick, where she met archers from other provinces. She got to know Haas from competing against her in the individual shootout.
Redmond is fully aware she was the right age to compete in the Games this year. “This is the one and only time I’ll get to experience this,” she said.
Looking ahead
Redmond currently attends unviversity in Alberta.
“When I was at Horton, they had a program that offered different options for career choices,” she explained.
She was interested in engineering, and “when I punched it in, Alberta was the first school that came up. It had everything I wanted.” Unlike a lot of schools, she is able to do her entire five-year program there instead of having to switch midway.
Because she was in the middle of midterms during the Games, Redmond had to get right back to school after she finished competing. She still has three more years remaining to complete her degree.
She admitted to being “tired from classes and all the other preparations,” but said the experience was still a lot of fun.
Redmond’s parents, Mark and Kristen, and paternal grandparents, James and Brenda, all live in New Minas.
As for archery, she knows she won’t get to the Canada Games again, but she would “like to continue in the sport as long as I have time and am keeping up in school.”
She will remember her experience at the Canada Games for a long time.
“It was pretty good,” she said. “There was lots of cool stuff going on.”
