At 21 years old, Jennifer Mucino Fernandez of Brockton, Massachusetts, has been to the Tokyo Olympics and is hoping to qualify for the archery competition at…
Next week, an archer from Brockton, Massachusetts, will compete in hopes of qualifying for the Paris Olympics.Her Olympic journey began when she was a child living in Mexico.
She tried different sports, ultimately choosing to pursue archery after seeing it in a magazine about the Pan American Games that took place in Mexico. "My mom always kept reading, kept investigating, kept learning to make us better archers," said Mucino Fernandez."I feel bad because, I mean, she is my mom, after all, and it is not always easy to listen to your mom all the time," she said with a laugh."So back then, it was like if I didn't want to do something, I didn't necessarily listen to her even though she was my coach.""No, not at first," said Mucino in Spanish.
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