'09 Alum Miles Above the Competition

I could make a lame joke here about how sometimes stories just seem to fall out of the sky, but we here at the Round-Up are more sophisticated than that.  We received a heads-up from a faithful follower this morning about 2009 WHS alum Katrina Buckner who was a gold medalist at the 2012 US Parachuting Association National Collegiate Parachuting Championships in Arizona.  The following is from an article by Holly Edgell found on the WCPO website.

Cincinnati native Katrina Buckner won a gold medal in the 2-way formation skydiving event last week at the 2012 U.S. Parachute Association National Collegiate Parachuting Championships.
The oldest and biggest collegiate skydiving event in the world, the competition took place at Skydive Arizona  south of Phoenix.
Buckner, 21, was among 100 collegiate skydivers from around the country.
She told WCPO.com that she and her partner Lauren Pruett decided to pair up just a day before the competition, and found themselves in lead after the first of three jumps.
"We're were pretty excited," Buckner said. "We really weren't expecting to win."
In formation skydiving, the team leaps from an aircraft more than two miles above the ground and then races against the clock to get into geometric formations in free-fall before opening their parachutes.
Buckner is a senior at the University of South Carolina, majoring in nursing. She has completed 115 skydives.

 

HERE is a link to the WCPO article