Led by veteran jumpers Erica Zenn and Mary Hunter Benton, who each won 16 medals, the Chapel Hill-based Bouncing Bulldogs Jump Rope Team collected 449 medals – 228 gold – at the World Jump Rope Championships held July 2-4 in Washington, D.C.

The Bulldogs took gold in the Team Show Small Group Junior Division and won silver in the Senior Division, with ProForm Airborne of Idaho Falls, Idaho, winning the Senior gold. In the Jump Rope Showcase Championship, the gold went to the Bulldogs’ Junior 14-and-younger team of Rebeccah Musson, Isabel Osborne, Reagan Roeber, Mia Stopa and Adam Weston.

The three golfers who advanced from the sectional qualifier in
Sanford will add to the international flavor of next month’s U.S.
Women’s Open Championship in Pennsylvania.

Sectional winner Hsiao-Ching Lu is from Chinese Taipei. She shot rounds
of 69 and 70 for 5-under-par 139 and a three-stroke victory on Thursday
at Carolina Trace Country Club.

Runner-up Gwladys Nocera (74-68—142) is from France, and the third and
final qualifier, Joomi Kim (72-71—143), is from Korea.

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