2008-09 Season: Followed up a successful first-year campaign with another dominant season ... All-American, All-Academic and All-East ... was the top finisher in the region for women’s recurve ... began the season by winning gold at the Eastern Seaboard FITA with a 551 ... took second at the Connecticut and Pennsylvania Indoor State Championships ... fired a 551 and 559 for a combined total of 1110 at the 40th U.S. National Indoor Championship to finish second overall ... one of the three members of the recurve team to win gold at the US Indoor National Championships ... took home the top honors at the Adam Wheatcroft Memorial ... her combined total of 1239 placed seventh at the Arizona Cup, Columbia’s highest finisher ... won bronze at the ERIAC.
2007-08 Season: You cannot accomplish much more than Margot Stuchin did in her first college archery season ... shot a sizzling 1114 at the Indoor Regionals/Nationals in March, the best mark by any collegian in the nation and region ... the score placed third among all Women’s Recurve archers in the nation, behind only Olympian Jennifer Nichols (1156) and ex-Columbia All-American Stephanie Miller (1138) ... capped her initial season when she won the Women’s Recurve individual championship at the U.S. Intercollegiate Championships, beating her All-American teammate, Sara Mancini, 92-77 in the semifinals and then topping Annette Gorelik of Harvey Mudd College, 97-83 for the gold medal ... shot a personal-best 639 to lead all qualifiers at the 70-Meter Challenge in Montreal ... took the gold medal at the Big Apple FITA with a 560 and silver at season-opening Eastern Seaboard FITA with a 546, two off the gold ... All-American and All-East ... earned Columbia’s Women’s Archery Award, a rare honor for a first-year student.
Pre-Columbia: Fourth-ranked Junior Women’s Recurve archer in the nation ... selected to the 2006 Junior Dream Team as a future Olympic hopeful ... extensive national and international experience ? member of 2003 and 2005 Junior World Indoor Championship Teams, 2004 Cadet World Championship Team ... United States Cadet and Junior National Teams ... in 2006, the last year in which she competed full-time, she took first place in the Junior Division of the National Indoor Target Championships, and fourth in the Junior Division of the National Target Championships ... fourth in the Junior World Team Trials ... runner-up in the 2005 Junior World Indoor Trials ... consistent gold medalist in national Cadet championship competition, including the Cadet U.S. Open, National Target Championships, Cadet Division, and JOAD Nationals, Cadet Division ... first place in the 2004 Cadet World Team Trials ... the same year, was second in the Texas Shootout ... did not compete in 2007 in order to concentrate on senior year academics.
At Horace Mann High: Did not compete in scholastic athletics ... Paul Bloc Creative Writing Award for poetry.
Personal: Biology major ... interested in career as veterinarian, working in zoos ... spent June 2007 weekends working on art projects with foster children in the South Bronx ... during the summer, interned for couture wedding dress designer Junko Yoshioka ... enjoys running, writing, sculpture, cooking, and playing video games ... Margot Dara Stuchin, b. 12-2-88 in New York City.
