Army West Point Athletics
Buck And Webber Share AAA Weekly Honors
March 15, 2011 | General
WEST POINT, N.Y. - Junior sharpshooter Kelly Buck and sophomore gymnast Kip Webber were named co-recipients of the Army Athletic Association Athlete of the Week award for their performances over the weekend.
Buck led Army in both disciplines at the 2011 NCAA Rifle Championships, placing seventh individually in smallbore and 11th in air rifle. It is the second time in three years that the Reading, Mass., native was among the top eight shooters to qualify for the individual finals in smallbore, while her 590 score in air rifle was just one shy of her career high.
The Black Knights, making their eighth straight NCAA appearance, finished eighth in the team standings. At the awards banquet following the conclusion of the tournament, Buck was also named a first-team All-American in smallbore by the National Rifle Association (NRA). She is the first Black Knight to earn All-America honors since Wesley Hess was selected to the first unit in air rifle in 2009. Buck is just the second female rifle shooter in Academy history to earn first-team NRA honors in smallbore, joining Rhonda Barush who was selected in that discipline in 1985.
In the gymnastics team's regular-season finale at Gross Sports Center, Webber was first in two events and captured the all-around scoring as No. 17 Army set a season-high 335.4 in tying No. 14 William & Mary.
The native of Boxborough, Mass., was first on floor exercise (14.3), tied for first on still rings with a 14.9, which is just shy of his 15.0 career mark, and broke his all-around score with an 84.7 in his first career win. He also was second on vault (16.0) and was third on parallel bars and high bar posting a personal best 13.9 in the former and equaling his career mark of 13.4 in the latter.
The gymnastics team heads into postseason competition starting March 25-26 when it competes as the USAG Championships being hosted by Springfield College in Springfield, Mass.
